Burnout Among Mental Health Professionals: 
An Ethical Problem with a Creative Solution

March 06, 2026 / 7:15 AM-9:15 PM Pacific Time

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Banish burnout, compassion fatigue, vicarious traumatization, & secondary traumatic stress

Find out about the impact of burnout & its ethical ramifications
Use your innate creativity & already-existing strengths in self-care

Learn the Expressive Therapies Continuum/Life Enrichment Model that supports integrative choices for upping your resilience game

The work you love is taking a toll on your ability to do the work you love

Mental health professionals like yourself are natural-born givers who make sense of the world through their feelings.  But what happens when you give and give, particularly in times of crisis, and try to take care of yourself after you’ve taken care of everyone else?

The result can be burnout, a classic darkening of mood and motivation related to your work that also negatively impacts your personal life.


You need accurate information to help you steer clear of professional pitfalls

This presentation will help you differentiate between burnout and its companion syndromes so you can understand the role of internalized administrative expectations and working conditions in putting you at risk for ethics violations and/or career abandonment.

Fortunately, these outcomes are optional, though self-care tips and tricks are seldom enough to defend against them.


I teach therapists how to enrich themselves and the services they provide 

What’s needed is a global/holistic solution that helps you revive creative mental processes so you can generate adaptive, rather than habitual, responses to your experiences in-session as well as outside of the office.

I’ll introduce you to Hinz’s Life Enrichment Model for supporting integrative choices that move you beyond self-care and promote the development resilience in the face of burnout.  Using the structure of this model, which is based on the Expressive Therapies Continuum, you will begin to examine your own self-care strategies so you can celebrate strengths and address challenges in your quest to practice—and live—optimally.


Are you ready to find your superpower and create a better outcome for those in your care?

Join me for two hours that will change the way you think about your professional practice and your role in helping others reach their treatment goals. Register today and get a jump start on your plan to safeguard the most important agent of change in therapy—you!

Investment: $55.00 USD


Learning Objectives: Attendees will be able to

  • define the differences between burnout, compassion fatigue, vicarious traumatization, and secondary traumatic stress.

  • describe at least three (3) ethical ramifications of burnout and its impact on professional practice.

  • identify at least two (2) personal strengths and challenges in self-care strategies for defending against burnout.

  • name a model that supports integrative choices for moving beyond self-care and developing resilience in the face of burnout.

  • explain how integration, resilience, and creativity relate to practicing—and living—optimally.


CE Hours: 2.0 hours for this live event

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 Are you ready to stop chasing after the self-care unicorn?

A burning palm tree, alone in the desert, representing burnout and isolation among mental health professionals.

More information about the webinar

  • Megan VanMeter
    LPC (AZ), LMHC (IN), LPC-AT/S (TX), ATR-BC

    Megan is licensed by the counseling boards in the U.S. states of Arizona, Indiana, and Texas, and she also holds board-certification status through the Art Therapy Credentials Board.  She has developed an online private practice using the Expressive Therapies Continuum (ETC), a nervous system-informed framework, as a basis for assessment, treatment planning, intervention, progress monitoring, and case conceptualization.  Megan earned her master’s degree in art therapy with a specialization in grief and medical counseling from the University of Louisville, where she studied under ETC co-creators Vija Lusebrink and Sandra (Kagin) Graves-Alcorn.

    She has served on professional boards and committees at local, regional, and national levels.  A scholar at heart, Megan enjoys doing research, giving presentations, and writing about the Expressive Therapies Continuum. She is hopeful that a new generation of therapists will have the opportunity to learn the ETC via methods similar to the ones her professors used.  Megan is cultivating a community of ETC enthusiasts and provides ETC supervision and webinars to help others develop appreciation for both the basics and the nuances of this important framework. 

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