Therapy for Compassion Fatigue.
Therapy for Secondary Trauma.

“IF YOUR COMPASSION DOES NOT INCLUDE YOURSELF, IT IS INCOMPLETE.”

—Jack Kornfield

What Is Compassion Fatigue?

As helping professionals, we often pour our emotional energy into supporting others through their darkest moments. Compassion fatigue occurs when this continuous empathy and caregiving begins to affect our own emotional and physical well-being. It's not just feeling tired – it's experiencing a deep depletion of our capacity to care. Think of compassion fatigue as your emotional bank account running low after making many withdrawals but few deposits. 

HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS
FAITH LEADERS
NON-PROFIT PROFESSIONALS
EDUCATORS
THERAPISTS
COUNSELORS
FIRST RESPONDERS
& OTHERS

When caring for others is part of your job, isolation, loneliness, anxiety, and depression can creep in over time.

Maybe you feel pressure to “have it all together” and feel unable to share your full humanity with anyone around you for fear of judgment or letting people down.

Maybe your relationships are struggling because your time and energy are being depleted at work.

Let’s work together to shift compassion fatigue into compassion resilience!

Signs You May Be Experiencing Compassion Fatigue

Emotional

  • Finding it harder to empathize with clients or patients

  • Feeling emotionally numb or disconnected

  • Carrying others' trauma stories home with you

  • Experiencing increased irritability or anxiety

  • Having difficulty finding joy in activities you once loved

Physical

  • Persistent fatigue that rest/sleep doesn't seem to fix

  • Changes in sleep patterns

  • Tension headaches or other physical symptoms

  • Changes in appetite or energy levels

Professional

  • Questioning your effectiveness or career choice

  • Struggling to maintain appropriate boundaries

  • Finding paperwork/documentation/administrative tasks increasingly overwhelming

  • Taking longer to recover between sessions/appointments

Compassion Fatigue Therapy in Louisville, KY & SC

Let’s work together to help you:

  • Create sustainable caring practices that protect your emotional well-being

  • Recognize early warning signs before depletion becomes overwhelming

  • Build stronger professional boundaries while maintaining genuine empathy

  • Process difficult cases, situations, and ethical dilemmas

  • Reconnect with your sense of purpose