You May Benefit From This Course If You:
- Finish the day more drained than you used to
- Notice your patience or emotional bandwidth shrinking
- Feel like the work requires more effort just to stay present
- Care deeply about your work, but feel increasingly worn down by it
- Find that time off helps briefly but the exhaustion returns
- Catch yourself wondering how long you can realistically keep this pace
- Know something about the way you are working needs to change but are not sure where to begin
When the Work Starts Taking More Than It Gives
Helping professionals rarely burn out because they stopped caring. More often, burnout happens because they care deeply and have been carrying that responsibility for a long time.
Long hours. Constant decision making. Exposure to suffering. Systems that make good work harder than it should be.
Over time the nervous system absorbs that pressure. Energy becomes harder to recover. Patience narrows. The work that once felt energizing can begin to feel heavy.
Many professionals quietly assume this means something is wrong with them.
In reality, it is a very common response to sustained helping work.
Why Burnout Is Not Fixed by “More Self Care”
Helping professionals are often told the solution to burnout is better self care:
- Take more time off.
- Add more routines.
- Try harder to recover.
For many people, those suggestions simply add another obligation.
This course approaches burnout differently. Instead of adding more effort, it focuses on restoring the nervous system systems that allow energy and recovery to happen in the first place.
Instead of Blaming Yourself
This course helps you understand what is happening and gives you a simple place to begin. You will explore a small menu of reconnection practices that help shift the nervous system out of stuck patterns.
These practices are brief and approachable. Nothing complicated. Nothing overwhelming. You simply explore what feels supportive and leave the rest.
A Different Way to Approach Burnout
This course introduces a different way of looking at burnout and energy in helping work.
Instead of giving you another list of things to do, we explore how patterns of effort, pressure, and depletion shape your experience of the work. Through simple practices and reflection, you will start to notice these patterns from the inside out and develop both a felt sense and a clearer understanding of what drains energy and what restores it.
Along the way, you begin to recognize the habits and biases that quietly shape where your attention and effort go each day.
By the end of the course, you will leave with a different relationship to your work. Not more to do, but a clearer and more strategic sense of where your energy belongs.
The goal is not to push harder.
It is to help you rediscover energy and enjoyment in the work you are already doing.
Course Format:
Self-paced online learning with approximately two hours of video instruction, demonstrations, and guided practices. You have one year to complete the course.
CE Credit:
2 CT-NASW CECs | Including 1 hr Cultural Competency
This program has been approved for Continuing Education Credit Hours by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for CT Social Work Licensure renewal. Approval also meets the continuing
education criteria for CT LMSWs, LMFTs, LPCs, and licensed psychologists.
Tuition:
$29. Course content is available for one year after purchase.
Instructor:
Christine Saari, MA, C-IAYT
About Your Instructors
Christine Saari, MA, C-IAYT
Director, ClinicAlly Trained™ | Co-Founder, Yoga Therapy Associates
Christine Saari, MA, C-IAYT, is an author, educator, and yoga therapist dedicated to bridging yoga therapy and mental health care. As Director of ClinicAlly Trained™, she develops specialized continuing education and yoga teacher training programs for clinicians who want to integrate evidence-based somatic and breath-based interventions into therapy practice.
Christine’s clinical background centers on supporting individuals living with anxiety, trauma, depression, and cancer. As a breast cancer survivor, she brings lived experience and clinical expertise together with genuine compassion, recognizing both the depth of suffering people carry and the practical tools that support real healing.
As co-founder of Yoga Therapy Associates and ClinicAlly Trained™, Christine envisions a professional platform where yoga therapy and behavioral health meet. Her work emphasizes elevating best practices, strengthening ethical standards, and ensuring that yoga therapy is represented with the same rigor and accountability expected in clinical disciplines.
Through a partnership between Yoga Therapy Associates and the Held Center for Healing, Christine helped develop the EMbody Trauma Recovery Program, an IOP alternative for individuals recovering from addiction and trauma that combines EMDR and yoga therapy. She has also presented multiple times at Smilow Cancer Center at Yale New Haven Hospital on yoga therapy for emotional and physical recovery. In addition, she provides continuing education for DMHAS, the Connecticut Women’s Consortium, and EMDRIA’s national webinar catalog, teaching clinicians how to integrate yoga therapy and breathwork into trauma treatment.
Christine’s writing and teaching reflect a deep commitment to professionalizing yoga therapy, making it accessible, research-informed, and relevant to the realities of modern clinical practice.
Learn more about Christine’s work at www.yogatherapyassociates.com/about/christine-yoga-therapist and explore her specialized programs for therapists at www.clinicallytrained.com.