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Secondary Trauma Training
Signature Keynote | Interactive Workshop | Organizational Training
Helping professionals are trained to care deeply.
But repeated exposure to trauma, crisis, and human suffering reshapes the nervous system over time.
Compassion fatigue is not a weakness.
It is an occupational hazard.
Through dynamic keynotes and strategic organizational training, Sharise equips helping professionals and leadership teams to recognize early signs of compassion fatigue, strengthen containment practices, and protect long-term capacity without disengaging from the work.
When Caring Becomes Costly
- In high-exposure professions, the cost of caring accumulates quietly.
- Over time, teams may experience:
- Emotional exhaustion masked as professionalism
- Increased irritability or detachment
- Reduced clarity in high-stakes decisions
- Quiet disengagement and turnover
- Leadership strain caused by chronic exposure
- Without intervention, compassion fatigue spreads; not just individually, but culturally.
- What Makes This Different
- Most compassion fatigue trainings focus on self-care. Sharise approaches the issue clinically and systemically.
- Her work addresses:
- The nervous system impact of repeated trauma exposure
- The difference between burnout and secondary trauma
- How stress transfers across teams and leadership
- Structural containment; not just personal coping
- Leadership’s role in preventing culture erosion
- This is not a motivational talk. It is a prevention strategy grounded in clinical insight and organizational realities.
Designed For Conferences & Universities
Social work, counseling, nursing, and psychology conferences
Graduate programs & field education departments
Professional associations
CEU-approved breakout sessions
Organizations & Agencies
Hospitals & healthcare systems
School districts
Community mental health agencies
Nonprofits with high trauma exposure
Supervisory and leadership teams
WHAT PARTICIPANTS LEARN
Participants Leave Able To
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Recognize early markers of compassion fatigue and secondary trauma
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Understand how exposure impacts regulation and decision-making
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Differentiate burnout from trauma-driven depletion
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Apply practical containment tools in real time
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Sustain empathy without emotional erosion
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Organizational Impact
Available formats:
- Keynotes (30–90 minutes)
- Half-day or full-day training
- CEU-approved trainings
- Multi-session organizational engagement
Organizations gain:
- Shared language around emotional exposure
- Reduced spillover and internal stress transfer
- Leadership awareness of containment responsibility
- Increased retention and culture stability
- Clear next steps for sustainable workforce support
Why Sharise
Sharise Nance, LCSW, CCTP, is widely recognized for her work on compassion fatigue within helping professions. Known as the “Compassion Fatigue Lady,” she has spent over a decade equipping professionals across healthcare, education, and social service systems with tools to remain effective without burning out.
Having navigated compassion fatigue personally and professionally, she bridges lived experience with clinical expertise and organizational strategy.
Her work now extends beyond awareness; helping leaders build environments where high performance does not require depletion.
Sharise Nance, LCSW, CCTP
Burnout & Compassion Fatigue Expert for High-Demand Organizations
Ready to Protect Your People?
Compassion fatigue does not resolve itself.
If your staff are carrying more than they’re metabolizing, now is the time to intervene upstream.
Immediate Containment Tools
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A 5-minute nervous system reset for high-exposure days
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Micro-containment techniques to use between sessions, meetings, or crisis responses
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A simple end-of-day emotional debrief to prevent accumulation
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A boundary micro-shift for roles that require constant empathy
FOR ORGANIZATIONS
Defining Leadership Burnout
- Leadership burnout occurs as a result of the leader feeling overloaded, underchallenged and/or worn out FROM Excessive and prolonged emotional, physical and mental stress.