Holding the Weight: Navigating High-Acuity Counselling While Preserving Clinician Well-Being
In this course, Dr. Marcus Folkes explains the realities of working with high-acuity clients while maintaining clinician wellbeing and professional effectiveness. Drawing on clinical experience, supervision practice, and counsellor education, he explores the emotional, ethical, and systemic demands of high-acuity work, introduces the concept of self-tending as an alternative to traditional self-care, and provides practical strategies for sustaining a healthy and meaningful career in helping professions.
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In this course, counsellor educator, supervisor, and licensed professional counsellor Dr. Marcus Folkes introduces a practical framework for understanding and responding to the unique challenges associated with high-acuity counselling. You will examine the impact of chronic exposure to suicidality, trauma, severe mental illness, and crisis intervention on clinician wellbeing while exploring the distinctions between burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma. The course emphasises the importance of intentional self-tending practices, reflective awareness, boundary stewardship, supervision, and organisational responsibility. You will leave with practical tools for developing a personalised self-tending plan that supports therapeutic presence, ethical practice, career longevity, and sustainable engagement with demanding clinical work.
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