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Healing the Healer: Compassion Fatigue, Vicarious Trauma, and Self-Care in NOSC-Assisted Psychotherapies

Healing the Healer: Compassion Fatigue, Vicarious Trauma, and Self-Care in NOSC-Assisted Psychotherapies

 
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Workshop Description

In this workshop, we focus on the specifics of working with non-ordinary states of consciousness (NOSC) in psychotherapy, and the importance of self-care, processing material post-session, and preparation strategies for psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy sessions to prevent countertransference stress and burnout.

This training session integrates diverse clinical theories, traditions, and philosophies on therapist self-care, offering participants an increasingly wide-angle lens on the evolving field of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy and grounding it in clinical wisdom. Attention is also given to an understanding of vicarious traumatization, burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary post-traumatic stress.

Teachings are appropriate for healthcare professionals as well as the general public. Healthcare professionals will be able to incorporate the tools and practices offered in this program in ways beneficial to clients or patients. The workshop will include a combination of presentations for a total of six continuing education credits; the workshop will also include participation in two hours of self-care activities that will not earn continuing education credits.

Meet your Workshop Instructors:
Veronika Gold, LMFT
Veronika Gold, LMFT
Instructor
Veronika Gold, MFT (she/her) a Czech Republic native, made Bay Area her home in 2003. She has been interested in the exploration of consciousness and the healing potential of psychedelics since her teenage years when she met Stanislav Grof. She has expertise in the treatment of trauma and as well works with clients on preparation for and integration of psychedelic experiences. She supports clients in personal growth supporting them to live their highest potential. She is a co-founder of Polaris Insight Center, providing Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy, and is a lead trainer at Polaris Insight Center Training program. Veronika was a Sub-Investigator and Therapist on MDMA-Assisted Therapy Clinical trials sponsored by MAPS for the treatment of PTSD. Currently, she is a mentor trainer and supervisor for MDMA-AT. Veronika as well serves as a consultant and facilitator in EMDR and Organic Intelligence trainings, and is a Realization Process Teacher.
Veronika Gold, LMFT
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Polaris Insight Center
Harvey Schwartz, PhD
Harvey Schwartz, PhD
Instructor
Harvey is a licensed psychologist who specializes in treating complex PTSD, dissociative disorders, as well as patients with spiritual and therapy-related trauma. He has undergone advanced Ketamine-Assisted Therapy training through the Ketamine Training Center and the MAPS MDMA-Assisted Therapy Training Program and is currently a Sub-Investigator and Co-therapist, a supervisor and a trainer on the MAPS MDMA-Assisted Therapy Clinical Trials. In his clinical work and consultation, he synthesizes relational psychodynamic, archetypal, existential, and mindfulness perspectives. He has worked on advancing the theory and practice of integration in psychedelic therapies. Harvey is the training director and a lead trainer in the Polaris Insight Training Program.
Harvey Schwartz, PhD
Psychologist
Polaris Insight Center
Christine Pateros, RN
Christine Pateros, RN
Instructor
Chris Pateros has been in the healing arts as a clinician for four decades. Spanning holistic nursing to shamanic energy healing, Chris has served clients globally in her private healing practice since 2007. In this experiential presentation, Chris walks the healer through their own rites of initiation to energetic self-care. Participants will learn simple and integral self-clearing of the energy system with ritual and ceremony to activate deep roots as well as illuminating connection.
Christine Pateros, RN
Registered Nurse
Sonia Telle, LMFT
Sonia Telle, LMFT
Instructor
Sonia Telle is a licensed Somatic Psychotherapist in private practice. She has a passion for Holotropic Breathwork and has been offering workshops in Northern California, Spain for nearly two decades. She has worked closely with Stan Grof and with GTT (Grof Transpersonal Training) in the US and Europe.
Sonia Telle, LMFT
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
Serena Malkani, MA
Serena Malkani, MA
Instructor
Serena Malkani is an internationally recognized Sound Practitioner and Ayurvedic Counselor. She integrates her education in psychology with the medicinal qualities of Sound, Ayurveda, and Yoga to develop long-term preventative health care rituals.
Serena Malkani, MA
Master Arts
Cathy Skipper
Cathy Skipper
Instructor
Cathy Skipper began her career in the healing arts. She trained at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama where she acquired a B’ED Hons in Drama, Applied Theater and Education. She worked in schools and social settings using drama as the medium for healing. Cathy moved to rural France in her mid-twenties and learnt to live in nature, traveling with a horse and cart and living off the land. In 2003, she settled in the South-East of France farming blueberries, medicinal plants and making organic wine. At the same time, she took the three-year herbal diploma at Ecole Lyonnaise de Plantes Medicinales, the largest herbal school in Europe. She went on to teach field botany, practical herbalism, healing the healer and aromatherapy at the school as well as co-authoring the aromatherapy book, Aromatic Medicine with the school’s founder and director Patrice de Bonneval.
Cathy Skipper
Herbalist
Florian Birkmayer, MD
Florian Birkmayer, MD
Instructor
Through my commitment to my own Wounded Healer’s journey, I share with our clients and students my deep understanding of what it is to be human and find your own personal myth or soul’s purpose. My calling is to help people find their soul’s purpose in collaboration with my wife Cathy Skipper through AromaGnosis. Aromatics in the form of essential oils can be powerful allies to heal the relationship between the different parts of yourself, so that these parts cooperate instead of clashing. In our unique, unparalleled approach, we work in partnership with aromas – the expressions of the plants’ souls.
Florian Birkmayer, MD
Medical Doctor
Amy Hyun Swart, LMFT
Amy Hyun Swart, LMFT
Instructor
Amy Hyun Swart is a somatic and expressive arts-based psychotherapist specializing in working with grief and trauma. Alongside her work as a therapist, she teaches restorative yoga and meditation, and leads grief gatherings, rituals, and courses.
Amy Hyun Swart, LMFT
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
Extra Info

Date: 
November 1, 2025

Instructors:
Harvey Schwartz, PhD • Veronika Gold, LMFT • Christine Pateros, RN • Sonia Telle, LMFT • Amy Hyun Swart, LMFT • Florian Birkmayer, MD • Cathy Skipper • Serena Malkani, MA

Target Audience:
This course is designed for mental health professionals – MDs, DOs, NDs, NPs, RNs, PsyDs, PhDs, LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCs, LEPs. Open to the public.

Accommodations:
To request accommodations for special needs, please email the program administrator at training@polarisinsight.com.

Cancellation Policy:
Participants need to cancel up to 2 weeks in advance to receive a 100% refund (minus a $25 admin fee and payment processing fee). If cancelled after the 2-weeks-in-advance period they can use the credit for a future training or receive 50% refund (minus a $25 admin fee and payment processing fee).

Continuing Education:

  • 6 hours of continuing education (CE) credits
  • Be sure to select the CE credit option when purchasing the course.
  • Upon completion of the course, you will receive a Certificate of Attendance for your credits.
  • Polaris Insight Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Polaris Insight Center maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
  • The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
  • LCSWs, MFTs, and other mental health professionals from states other than California need to check with their state licensing board as to whether or not they accept programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
  • For questions about receiving your Certificate of Attendance or to report a grievance, contact training@polarisinsight.com. 

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