Compassion Fatigue

Heather Ackles (she/her/hers)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LCSW

I have experience working with professionals who are amidst "compassion fatigue." (Very connected with 'burn-out') I facilitated the weekly Metropolitan Public Defender Engagement Group for lawyers/legal support staff - which specifically addressed compassion fatigue, a variety of difficulties within the work, as well as work/life balance (AKA: the lack of/guilt connected with work/life 'balance').

Marina Nelson, MC (she/her/hers)

Licensed Professional Counselor

Oregon LPC, Washington LMHC

I believe trauma-informed services are especially relevant to compassion fatigue as the cost of caring has a cumulative effect. Also, professional and non-professional caregivers are often disinclined to acknowledge let alone care for their own needs. EMDR and IFS are both very useful for identifying and "upgrading" core beliefs that keep people habitually over-giving to others and under nurturing themselves.

Katherina Alexandre (She/Her/Ella)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist

As healthcare and mental health professionals, we speak about the importance of self-care to others but often fail to follow our own advice. It’s time to gather in a supportive, interactive, and relaxed environment to begin the conversation about the demands of our work and the negative effects on our well-being.

Becca Dorn-Medeiros (She/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

Ed.S., LPC

Beyond the all too common trope of self care, it's important to talk about ways we can find space to process our emotions and experiences while learning how to exist inside and outside the confines of capitalism. How do we balance caring for others while keeping ourselves intact?

Erin Axelrod, MA (she/her/hers)

Professional Counselor Associate

MA

I am passionate about caring for those who spend their energy caring for others. Whether you are a parent, a health care provider, or any other role that requires setting aside your own needs in order to support others, let's create some space for you.

Jennifer Gray (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC, LMHC, EMDR

Providing support for individuals experiencing compassion fatigue. Specializing in helping financial advisors and entrepreneurs navigate emotional exhaustion, build resilience, and restore balance. Offering tools to set healthy boundaries, manage stress, and reconnect with a sense of purpose, empowering clients to care for themselves while continuing to make a meaningful impact in their personal and professional lives.

Elizabeth Knutsen (she/her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW

Many sex workers often burn out from the level of emotional engagement their job requires. Holding boundaries for yourself and with clients takes so much energy -- especially when you safety is at risk. It makes sense you're feeling burnt out. Let's build some skills around taking care of you and allow for space for burnout without normalizing it as a "right of passage" under capitalism.

Mary Roberts (She/Her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, LPC, LMHC

As a clinical supervisor, issues like burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma run pervasive in the lives of clinicians I serve. Often, the solutions to these challenges are systemic. Let's collaborate on a path toward reengagement, connection, and resilience together.

Gabriella Losada (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

MS

Burnout and compassion fatigue go hand-in-hand and I love collaborating with clients who are experiencing burnout from caregiving or being in a helping profession. We can work toward restoring (or creating from scratch) a more balanced approach to being present in all aspects of your life.

Julia Perretta (She/Her)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

As a therapist who is also a certified Yoga and Meditation teacher, I utilize self compassion and mindfulness based approaches to challenge systems of oppression that perpetuate compassion fatigue.

Anna Claybaugh (she/her/they/them)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW, LICSW

Supporting other people who know what it's like to caregive and tend to those they love. Sometimes we get burnt out and need to shift things up for our own care.

Garrison Cox (he/him)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

Master of Arts in Marriage, Couple, and Family Therapy

Compassion fatigue is a particular type of burnout that often affects those who spend a lot of their time caring for others. In this current world of near-instant global information and constant exposure to crisis - whether experienced personally or through the news - it can be hard to maintain a sense of compassion and empathy for others. For most caretaking people I know, this often results in self-judgment, shame, and irritation.

Jessi Huffman (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC

Being a counselor during these volatile times has taught me much about what I need to do, not only to be ok, but to continue providing support and compassion to those around me. Nothing about being a helper is easy these days, but I fully believe the work is worth it and necessary for all of us to heal and thrive. If you're a worn-out helper and you want to keep helping but don't know where you will find the strength, I see you, I understand, and I want to walk with you.

Andrew Rose (He/him/his)

Professional Counselor

Intern, will be APC in 7/2025

Part of the focus of my practice is with the families of those who are chronically ill. It is a huge burden—no matter how willing one is, and how much they want to care for their loved ones—to be responsible for someone’s day-to-day care. I try to teach partners and caregivers meditation techniques and self-compassion, both of which are evidence based and I have found them to be exceptionally helpful to many patients.

Lori Eckel (she/her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW, APHSW-C

I provide support to health care workers impacted by the cumulative effects of caring and experiencing their own suffering. I also provide critical incident stress debriefing. I help health care providers to identify their own professional values, orientation, identity and connect to their own moral compass as they face compassion fatigue, burnout or moral distress.

Naomi Painter (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC

I have worked in case management for many years and am passionate about assisting those in helping professions, such as case managers, outreach workers, home visitors, and educators. Burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary trauma come with the territory.

Maria Bonacci (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC

Tired of being asked about your "self-care" practices? Let's talk about ways we can create lives inside and outside the confines of capitalism that offer us room to process intense and complex emotional experiences.

McKenzie Brock

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW

I am passionate about supporting caregiver and other therapists, teachers, and people who give to others for their career. I have taken courses on vicarious trauma and caregiving.

Nicole Phelps (she/her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW

As a helping professional it is imperative to make time for your own mental health so that you do not become overwhelmed and unable to do the work you love. If you are lacking healthy boundaries, feel disconnected from yourself, your values, or your body, the important relationships in your life could suffer or end in conflict. I work with helping professionals in many settings who work directly with people experiencing trauma, I understand firsthand the importance of investing in yourself.

Deah Partak (She/her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW, LICSW, ACS

I specialize in Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma. I am a Certified Compassion Fatigued Professional (CCFP). If you are a professional helper beginning to feel burnt out or traumatized by your work, this is a normal reaction that occurs to professional helpers. You can grow and cope with it! You owe it to yourself, family, friends, and clients to take action.

Jenna Washburn (she / her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA: Mental Health Counseling - Specialization in Addictions

Caretaking is an act of love. But the yang to this beautiful yin is that sometimes you care and tend so much to others, that there’s nothing left over for yourself. This can make you feel burnt out, fatigued, drained, and possibly even resentful. That’s when caretaking can become overactive. I offer a Focused Therapy program to bring some focus back to you. You deserve to heal, to spend some energy on yourself, and to fill your own cup so you can get back into the world refreshed & renewed.

Kestrel Fae Tippie (they/them)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

OR LMFT # T2221, CA LMFT #130759

I specialize in therapy for therapists, caregivers and helpers- we need our own place of support where we can drop our masks, our holding presence and emotional labor for others. You deserve a refuge where you can get really excellent skilled support, where you don't have to lead or function for anyone else, where someone else will hold your experience with wisdom and compassion. Where someone will help you see your patterns so you can make different choices that return you to life and vitality.

Andrew Conner (He/Him/His)

Marriage and Family Therapist

MA

My years of experience working at mental health agencies gave me insight into the realities of secondary traumatic stress. I understand the challenges that activists and people in the helping professions face as they attempt to maintain self-care and work towards making the world a better place at the same time. I endeavor to provide a refuge for those seeking balance and struggling with burnout.