Course Overview
Roughly half of mental health professionals report burnout symptoms, and burnout is linked to more clinical errors, more ethics complaints, and earlier career exit — making self-care a competence issue rather than a wellness extra. This complimentary course, offered as a sample of the Blossom Wellness CE library, gives therapists a fast, practical framework for recognizing depletion and building sustainable self-care.
What this course covers:
- Distinguishing burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma
- Why therapists are structurally vulnerable to depletion
- The four pillars of sustainable self-care: Physical, Emotional, Professional, and Meaning
- Self-assessment tools including the ProQOL and a personal warning-sign inventory
- A guided burnout self-assessment across all four pillars
- Building a specific, realistic 30-day self-care plan
- Self-care as an ethical and clinical competence issue, not a wellness indulgence
- Case studies illustrating early-, mid-, and late-career burnout arcs
- Building professional community and support in four layers
Participants leave with a personal 30-day self-care plan and, if it resonates, an invitation to the full Blossom Wellness CE library.
Blossom Wellness Counseling maintains responsibility for this program/course and their content.
Instructor: Jeanne Prinzivalli
Jeanne Prinzivalli - LMFT (License #52833) — Clinical Director & Director of Continuing Education, Blossom
Wellness Learning
Jeanne Prinzivalli, LMFT, is the Clinical Director and Director of Continuing Education at Blossom Wellness Learning in Los Angeles, where she has maintained a private practice serving adults since 2013. She holds an M.A. in Clinical Psychology (MFT track) from Antioch University Los Angeles. Her clinical experience spans community mental health, telehealth (Talkspace), forensic and parole-population work, trauma-focused outpatient care, and domestic-violence intervention. She has trained in clinical supervision and integrates therapist wellbeing into ongoing CE programming.
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Educational Goals
- Build foundational understanding of therapist burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma as distinct experiences.
- Recognize structural and personal factors that make therapists uniquely vulnerable to depletion.
- Apply the four pillars of sustainable self-care to one's own practice.
- Build a realistic, specific 30-day self-care plan.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Distinguish burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma in clinical presentation and intervention.
- Identify at least three reasons therapists are uniquely vulnerable to occupational depletion.
- Apply the four pillars (Physical, Emotional, Professional, Meaning) to a personal self-assessment.
- Construct a specific, realistic, 30-day self-care plan tied to existing routines.
