FREE 6-HOUR LIVE COMPASSION FATIGUE RECOVERY MASTERCLASS
TUESDAY, MAY 19TH, 2026 @ 10:00 AM ET – 5:30 PM ET
Feel Passion for Your Practice Again — Even After Burnout & Compassion Fatigue From Trauma Client Work Have Quietly Drained It
Free Masterclass With Diane Bigler, LCSW, LSCSW — Trauma-Informed Educator Specializing in Compassion Fatigue & Vicarious Trauma
You'll learn to recognize the 16 signs of trauma exposure response, identify which condition is affecting your practice right now, and apply the Trauma Stewardship Five Directions to build sustainable, ethical practice — so you can show up fully for your trauma clients without sacrificing yourself.
Register Below. This Masterclass for Licensed Mental Health Professionals
Free to attend. 9 CE credits & recording access available for $67 after registration.
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Know Exactly Which Condition Is Draining You:
Identify Burnout, Compassion Fatigue & Vicarious Trauma
9 Board-Approved CEs
Available for Purchase in Next Step
RECORDING WITH CE PURCHASE
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Here's What You're Learning Across 6 Hours:
Compassion Fatigue Recovery Masterclass: Strategies for Burnout, Vicarious Trauma & Sustainable Practice
MODULE 1
Identify Which Condition Is Draining You:
Burnout, compassion fatigue & vicarious trauma require different solutions — so you stop wasting time treating the wrong one.
MODULE 2
Recognize the 16 Warning Signs Early:
Identify the specific signs already showing up in your practice — before they cost you the clinical presence your clients depend on.
MODULE 3
Stop Applying the Wrong Solution:
Self-care doesn't resolve compassion fatigue & rest doesn't address burnout — so you finally address what's actually maintaining your exhaustion.
MODULE 4
Understand What Vicarious Trauma Does Outside the Room:
Learn how vicarious trauma rewires your worldview — so you can recognize it in yourself & stop it from bleeding into your relationships & your sleep.
MODULE 5
Build Your Clinical Sustainability Framework:
Apply the Five Directions of Trauma Stewardship to your specific practice — so you stop dreading the work & start feeling deep empathy for your clients again.
MODULE 6
Leave With a Personalized Recovery Plan:
You don't leave the Masterclass with notes — you leave with a structured compassion fatigue recovery plan that changes how you show up for your very next client.
BURNOUT & COMPASSION FATIGUE RECOVERY — TAUGHT BY A CLINICIAN WHO HAS SPENT HER CAREER INSIDE IT
Diane Bigler, LCSW, LSCSW
Diane Bigler is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with extensive experience in trauma-informed practice, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma conditions. She has spent her career helping professionals identify, understand, and address issues before they cost them their clinical capacity. From that position, she built what most clinicians never receive in training: a complete framework for understanding not just what these conditions are, but what specifically maintains them and what each one actually requires to resolve.
Diane Bigler presents regularly on burnout prevention, vicarious trauma, and compassion fatigue recovery for clinicians, social workers, healthcare providers, and other helping professionals. What she brings to the Compassion Fatigue Recovery Masterclass on May 19th is the clinical picture most helping professionals spend years carrying alone: every condition named, clinically distinguished, and paired with a recovery plan that changes how you show up in the room from the very next session.
Here's Why This Masterclass Matters:
WITH THIS MASTERCLASS:
You know exactly which condition is costing you capacity & what specifically resolves it.
Your clients' trauma stays in the session, not in your sleep, your home & your relationships.
You show up fully present in the room again, regulated, effective & sustainable.
You leave with a personalized trauma stewardship plan built for your specific practice.
WITHOUT THIS MASTERCLASS:
You keep applying self-care to the wrong condition & nothing changes.
Your clients' trauma follows you home into your sleep, your relationships & your worldview.
The emotional flatness in the session deepens with no framework to explain or address it.
You keep showing up for your clients — quietly wondering how much longer you can keep doing it.
9 CE credits & lifetime replay available For Purchase after registration
Frequently Asked Questions
How many CEs do I receive, and what does it cost?
The Masterclass is completely free to attend live. After registration, you will have the option to upgrade to 9 board-approved CEs plus lifetime recording access for $67 before the Masterclass begins. You can purchase CEs at the next step once you register.
Can I get the recording if I cannot attend live?
Yes. Lifetime recording access is included with the CE upgrade. If you cannot attend live on May 19th, the recording gives you everything Diane Bigler covers: every framework for distinguishing burnout, compassion fatigue & vicarious trauma, the complete Trauma Stewardship Five Directions, and your personalized trauma stewardship plan — available permanently on your own schedule.
Do I receive CEs just for attending live?
No. CEs are available for purchase in the next step after registration. Attending the live Masterclass is free. The CE upgrade at $67 gives you 9 board-approved CEs plus lifetime recording access.
I primarily work with anxiety and depression. Is this relevant to my practice?
Yes. Burnout, compassion fatigue & vicarious trauma affect helping professionals across every clinical specialty — not just those working with complex trauma caseloads. If you are sitting with clients in emotionally demanding work of any kind, the conditions this Masterclass covers are already relevant to your practice. The framework applies regardless of your primary presenting population.
I have attended self-care trainings before and found them too general to apply. How is this different?
Diane Bigler does not teach symptom management. Every framework covered on May 19th is taught with the specific clinical context for when to apply it, what is maintaining the condition, and what specifically needs to change. You leave with a personalized trauma stewardship plan — not a list of wellness strategies.
I already know about burnout. Is this going to tell me anything I do not already know?
If you already know that burnout and compassion fatigue are clinically distinct conditions that do not respond to the same interventions — that vicarious trauma changes your worldview at the schema level, not just your emotional availability in session — and that the 16 signs of trauma exposure response have a name and a specific clinical framework, this may cover familiar ground. If any of those have ever shown up in your practice without a clear framework to address them, this Masterclass was built for exactly that moment.
Are the CEs board-approved for my license?
Yes. The CEs are board-approved for LCSWs, LPCs, LMFTs, PsyDs, and other licensed mental health professionals. Click the Board Approvals button at the end of this page to see the full list of approved licensing boards for your state.
Scope and Limitations Disclosure:
This training provides licensed mental health professionals and other helping professionals with a trauma-informed, strengths-based framework for understanding and responding to the cumulative effects of caregiving — including burnout, compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and trauma exposure response — through the lens of trauma stewardship. Content should be applied within the scope of each clinician's license and professional training. This training does not offer clinical supervision or constitute a substitute for clinical supervision. Participants are encouraged to apply content within their individual scope of practice and in accordance with applicable professional and ethical guidelines.
Commercial Support Disclosure
Diane Bigler, LCSW, LSCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and continuing education presenter specializing in trauma-informed practice, compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, burnout prevention, and clinical ethics for helping professionals. This training does not require participants to purchase any additional products, books, or materials to complete this training. The presenter has no relevant financial relationships to disclose beyond standard speaking compensation.
