The Resilient Therapist: Healing After Career-Altering Events

Description

This course is a live, interactive webinar held on November 13, 2026, from 11am-6pm Eastern Standard Time.

Registration closes at midnight (EST) the day before the event

Too many clinicians carry their hardest moments in silence, but those experiences don’t have to dim the work you love. Even in the wake of Adverse Psychological Events (APEs) such as client suicide, violence, sudden loss, subpoenas, grievances, or professional betrayal, there is a path forward.

These moments often shake our confidence and reshape how we see ourselves and our work, yet they can also become powerful turning points for growth, connection, and renewed purpose. In the spirit of reigniting the work that you love, this session brings these often-unspoken experiences into the light. Together, we’ll explore the impacts of APEs, practical strategies for healing, and ways to transform hardship into leadership and advocacy within our field. You are not alone, and you are not defined by your most difficult moments. By illuminating these experiences, we can strengthen resilience, support one another, and rediscover the meaning that first called us to this work.

Khara and Ashley bring both professional expertise and lived understanding of the impacts of APEs. Our work has focused on supporting mental health professionals through challenging experiences, promoting clinician well-being, and fostering sustainable practices that strengthen both providers and the communities they serve.

This training is taught through a reflective, evidence-informed, and engaging approach that combines education, discussion, and tools related to the realities of clinical practice. Participants will be encouraged to connect these topics with their own professional experiences while developing concrete strategies for healing, resilience, leadership, and advocacy.

This training explores the six APEs that clinicians may experience throughout their careers, as well as the impacts that often follow. Participants will examine approaches to intentional healing, burnout prevention, and resilience after career-related traumas. This training also emphasizes the importance of support and peer connection while reducing stigma and isolation among mental health professionals. Finally, participants will create a personalized plan to support long-term well-being and reconnect with what drew them to their work in the mental health field.

Key Takeaways:

• Understand Adverse Psychological Events: Identify common APEs clinicians may face, such as client suicide, violence, subpoenas, grievances, sudden loss, or professional betrayal, and recognize how these experiences can affect confidence, identity, well-being, and clinical practice.
• Build a practical path toward healing: Apply evidence-informed strategies that support resilience, burnout prevention, sustainable practice, and intentional recovery after career-altering clinical events.
• Reconnect with purpose and leadership: Develop a personalized plan for long-term well-being while exploring how difficult professional experiences can become catalysts for renewed meaning, peer support, advocacy, and systemic change.

Why This Course?

• Clinicians deserve support after difficult clinical events: This training brings difficult, often-unspoken professional experiences into the open, helping clinicians reduce isolation, name the impact of APEs, and find a structured path forward.
• Healing is strengthened by guidance from those who understand the work: Khara Croswaite Brindle and Ashley Charbonneau bring experience in clinician resilience, supervision, burnout prevention, trauma-informed support, and helping mental health professionals recover from the hardest moments of their careers.
• Clinician wellness strengthens ethical, sustainable care: This online training aligns with Telehealth Certification Institute’s commitment to equipping healthcare professionals with meaningful continuing education that supports both clinical excellence and clinician wellness.

Learning Objectives

• Identify common types of Adverse Psychological Events (APEs) experienced by clinicians and describe their impacts.
• Apply practical, evidence-informed strategies to support healing, resilience, and sustainable clinical practice following an APE.
• Explore ways to transform experiences with APEs into opportunities for leadership, advocacy, and systemic change within the field.
• Develop a personalized plan to maintain well-being and reconnect with meaning and purpose in their clinical work.
• Build leadership skills to help clinicians under your supervision navigate an APE.
• Identify biases and beliefs about APEs that can cause harm when leading clinicians experiencing APEs, using reflection prompts and resources.

As mental health professionals, we dedicate our careers to helping others, yet too often we experience difficult moments and face them alone. This training offers a space for reflection, connection, and growth while providing practical tools to navigate career-altering events and their impacts. Join us as we bring these experiences into the light and rediscover the meaning and passion that first inspired your work through vicarious healing.

Format and Access

This course is a live, interactive webinar.

Course Details

Schedule: (listed in Eastern Standard Time)

• 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Lecture
• 12:00 pm - 12:05 pm Q&A
• 12:05 pm - 12:15 pm Break
• 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm Lecture
• 1:15 pm - 1:20 pm Q&A
• 1:20 pm - 1:50 pm Lunch
• 1:50 pm - 2:55 pm Lecture
• 2:55 pm - 3:05 pm Q&A
• 3:05 pm - 3:15 pm Break
• 3:15 pm - 4:20 pm Lecture
• 4:20 pm - 4:30 pm Q&A
• 4:30 pm - 4:40 pm Break
• 4:40 pm - 5:50 pm Lecture
• 5:50 pm - 6:00 pm Q&A

How to Attend: 

Course access and completion instructions.

Who Should Attend: 

This course is intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services.

Teaching Methods: 

This is a live, interactive webinar. Enrollment includes access to live event(s) but does not include recordings of the presentations.

Instructor and Disclosures

Instructors

About Khara Croswaite Brindle, MA, LPC, ACS, CFT

Khara Croswaite Brindle, MA, LPC, ACS, CFT is passionate about giving people aha moments that create goosebumps and catalyze powerful action. She is a TEDx Speaker, Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Financial Therapist, Certified Enneagram professional, Approved Clinical Supervisor, and journal therapist living in Colorado. Khara enjoys various roles as a serial entrepreneur, 2x Amazon #1 Best-Selling Author, professional speaker, professor, and consultant. Khara specializes in helping therapists and financial therapists create secondary income streams against burnout through consultation, courses, and supervision. She is originally from the Pacific Northwest and gets her best ideas walking outside and being around water. When Khara’s not writing her next book or supporting fellow professional helpers on their own self-discovery journeys, she enjoys spending time with her daughter, reading, and indulging in gluttonous, gluten-free desserts with her family.

About Ashley Charbonneau, LCSW, LAC, ACS

Ashley Charbonneau, LCSW, LAC, is a therapist, evaluator, supervisor, consultant, and professor in Colorado. She is also licensed in Washington. Her clinical expertise is working with individuals impacted by the legal system, grounded in a commitment to offender accountability and survivor healing, with a restorative justice focus. She has written 45-hour training programs about supervision, as well as two books: The Resilient Therapist (Bloomsbury, 2025) and Supporting Clients of Sexual Trauma: Establishing Safety, Processing Shame, and Fostering Healthy Intimacy (PESI, 2026). She has presented to various audiences about clinical supervision, sex offenses, mandatory reporting, and resilience following the worst moments of our careers.

Disclosure Statement: 

The instructor(s) for this course receive compensation for their services. There are no reported conflicts of interest to disclose.

CE Hours

Credit Hours:

This course consists of 6 continuing education hours of credit.

Counselors:

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No, 6693.  Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.  Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Mental Health Counselors. #MHC-0048.

Marriage and Family Therapists:

Many MFT licensing boards accept our courses or one of the approvals which we have from professional associations.  You can check with your board to determine if your licensing board would accept this course.

Social Workers:

Telehealth Certification Institute LLC, #1609, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 05/02/2024 – 05/02/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 6 clinical continuing education credits.

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Social Workers #SW-0435.

Addiction Professionals:
 

This course has been approved by Telehealth Certification Institute LLC, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #193104, Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is responsible for all aspects of the programming.

Psychologists:

Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Telehealth Certification Institute LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Psychologists #PSY-0128.

Art Therapists:

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Creative Arts Therapists #CAT-0093.

Other Professionals:

This course qualifies for 360 minutes of instructional content as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations.  Retain your certificate of completion and contact your board or organization for specific filing requirements.

This course is an-interactive, live online webinar.

Participants may request a printed version of their certificate of completion to be delivered by mail. A shipping/handling fee of $6.95 will be charged per request. Shipping internationally may require an additional charge.

Agreement

By registering for this event you are agreeing to the following:

• 24 hour notice is required if you are not able to make it to a live event. Recordings are not provided to webinar registrants.
• To update and test using Zoom.us/test before the event to ensure you are ready for the event.
• Since this is a live interactive event it means that your interaction during the event is expected.  Your name and image will be visible to other participants during the live event. You will NOT be included in any recording made.
• An evaluation must be completed within one week of the event. Continuing Education credit(s) cannot be issued unless you attend the event and the evaluation is submitted.  (Evaluation is not mandatory for APA hours)
• Partial CE credits are not possible; therefore you are required to be present throughout the event in order to receive CE credits.
• Respect all other participants during the event as though you would if you were sitting with the other attendees at a conference table:
  • Dress appropriately
  • Be in a private location void of distractions
  • Do not multitask
  • Do not drive during an event
  • Remain on mute unless you are sharing with the group

Accommodations and Policies

Close Captioning is available for live webinars and recorded video presentations.

You can click on the following links to view our policies:

• Accommodations for Individuals with Disabilities.
• Cancellation Policy
• Grievance Policy
• Support Options
• Disclosure Statement