Sustainable Practice: Self-Care & Business Strategies for Mental Health Professionals

Join Empowered Wellness Initiative for a full-day continuing education workshop designed to help mental-health & wellness professionals care for themselves as intentionally as they care for others.

Led by Alena Alsruhe, LCPC and Brittany Edie, LCPC, The Sustainable Practice combines ethical self-care, evidence-based wellness strategies, and practical business tools to help you strengthen both your well-being and your work.

This training blends science, faith, and entrepreneurship—equipping you to sustain your calling, prevent burnout, and build a practice that reflects both purpose and balance.

What You’ll Learn:

Ethical Self-Care
Explore the ethical dimensions of self-care and why it’s essential to sustainable, effective clinical work.

Stress, Fatigue & Trauma
Recognize compassion fatigue and secondary trauma in yourself and clients, and practice tools that restore balance through movement, mindfulness, and nervous-system regulation.

The Complete Toolkit
Develop a personalized self-care plan that integrates mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, and relational dimensions of health.

Business & Marketing Strategy
Demystify branding, social media, finance, and marketing so you can attract your ideal clients, maintain ethical integrity, and grow a values-driven private practice.

Mindset & Imposter Syndrome
Identify limiting beliefs, overcome self-doubt, and step confidently into leadership with practical, evidence-based mindset tools.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will be able to:

1. Recognize self-care as an ethical imperative in clinical practice.

2. Identify five dimensions of self-care—mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, and relational—and apply strategies in each area.

3. Define compassion fatigue and implement interventions to mitigate its effects.

4. Develop a personalized, research-based self-care plan.

5. Apply evidence-based techniques to enhance emotional regulation and resilience.

6. Create a healthy business model addressing branding, marketing, and finance.

7. Analyze imposter-syndrome dynamics and utilize cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness tools to overcome self-doubt.

7.5 CE Hours for licensed counselors in MD (PA approval pending).