One in 4 counselors and 1 in 2 psychiatrists will have a client die by suicide in their career. The impact is significant and contributes to a clinician’s ability to remain in the field. The purpose of this workshop is to understand the impact of client suicide on clinicians and our ability to remain in the role of professional helper.
This workshop is for mental health professionals both beginning and seasoned, therapist survivors, and the mental health leadership and supervisors who support clinicians throughout their careers. By exploring the symptoms experienced by therapists in response to a client suicide as well as strategies mental health leaders can adopt to help them heal, we can begin to eliminate confidential grief and stigma after client suicide, supporting more mental health professionals remaining in this industry after a client suicide occurs.
Participants will leave with
- deeper compassion for the experience of client suicide with their colleagues
- healing tools for themselves or colleagues as therapist survivors if they’ve had a client die by suicide and
- ideas for mental health leadership and supervision to support clinician healing.
Attendees will receive a digital workbook.
March 28, 2025
3:00 p.m - 5:00 p.m. ET
Learning Objectives:
- Explore the physical and psychological impact each client death by suicide has on a clinician
- Identify healing strategies for clinicians experiencing a client suicide
- Develop supportive leadership for mental health professionals to remain in the field after client suicide
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Khara Croswaite Brindle, MA, LPC, ACS, CFT-I is passionate about turning pain points into possibilities for mental health professionals and Financial Therapists. She is a TEDx Speaker, Consultant, Licensed Mental Health Therapist, Professor, and Financial Therapist in Colorado. Her mission is to provide quality products and services to mental health professionals that spark curiosity and possibilities in alignment with professional growth and work-life balance. Khara values giving back to the next generation of therapists through teaching, consultation, and clinical supervision. She has served her community as a dedicated suicide assessment trainer and speaker both nationally and internationally since 2017. Khara’s passion for suicide prevention includes training hundreds of mental health professionals on suicide assessment and safety planning, creating the CACS Suicide Risk Tool for helping professionals, as well as founding Catalively, a nonprofit that focused on reducing youth suicide in Colorado, USA.
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This will be an online event and will not be recorded. This session is eligible for 2 CEC's.
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CES Chapter Event - Circle of Practice Workshop "Supervisors Helping Clinicians Heal from Client Suicide"
- Friday Mar 28 2025, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
