The Resourced Counselor
Moving Beyond Fixing Toward Sustainable Helping
Virtual via Zoom
Fee: $10 full members; $25 partial members and nonmembers
Continuing Education Hours: 2.0
Course Description
Many behavioral health professionals enter the field with a deep desire to help, alleviate suffering, and create change. Over time, this desire can quietly evolve into chronic over-responsibility, solution-chasing, and a sense that we must “fix” clients in order to be effective. While often rooted in care, this pattern contributes to clinician burnout, compassion fatigue, and treatment approaches that bypass the nervous system, attachment needs, and the client’s own capacity for growth.
This training explores how fixing and rescuing mindsets develop, how they show up across diagnoses, and how clinicians can shift toward a resourced, relational, and sustainable model of care. Participants will learn how to recognize fixing-based countertransference, strengthen internal resourcing, and practice presence-centered interventions that support client autonomy, nervous system regulation, and long-term change. The session integrates attachment theory, shame-informed practice, and nervous-system–informed care to help clinicians deepen diagnostic understanding while also protecting their own well-being and professional longevity.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify common signs of fixing- and rescuing-based clinical patterns in themselves, including how these patterns may be activated by specific diagnoses and client presentations.
- Differentiate between fixing-oriented interventions and presence-centered, autonomy-supportive therapeutic approaches.
- Apply at least three strategies to strengthen internal resourcing (e.g., boundary setting, pacing, and nervous system regulation) in clinical work.
- Utilize shame-informed and attachment-informed language to reduce over responsibility and increase collaborative treatment planning.
- Develop a personal sustainability plan that supports ethical, effective care while reducing burnout risk.
About the Trainer
Kyira Wackett, LPC
I am a licensed therapist, shame-resilience educator, and speaker who specializes in helping clinicians and helping professionals move out of burnout-driven overfunctioning and into sustainable, values-aligned practice. My work sits at the intersection of clinical theory, nervous system–informed care, and the lived realities of being a human inside a helping role.Clinically, I have spent over a decade working with individuals and couples navigating trauma, attachment wounds, anxiety, burnout, and identity-based shame. In both my therapy and training work, I consistently see how patterns of fixing, rescuing, and over responsibility show up not only in clients—but in clinicians themselves. These dynamics directly impact diagnostic conceptualization, treatment planning, countertransference, and long-term sustainability in the field.
Personally, I came to this work through my own experiences with burnout, overidentification with productivity, and learning how to unhook my worth from being “useful.” That lived experience, paired with formal clinical training, informs my passion for helping counselors build internal resourcing, tolerate uncertainty, and shift from solutionchasing toward presence, curiosity, and attuned care.
I regularly train clinicians on shame-informed practice, radical acceptance, attachment patterns, boundaries, and therapist sustainability. My trainings are practical, compassionate, and grounded in real-world clinical application— offering language, frameworks, and interventions clinicians can immediately integrate into their work with specific diagnoses while also strengthening their relationship with themselves as providers.
These proposed topics align closely with the goals of the Mental Health Monday series by deepening understanding of how diagnoses live in the nervous system, how attachment styles shape symptom presentation, and how clinician resourcing directly influences ethical, effective, and sustainable care.