Reignite your passion for helping animals!

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This powerful nine-week group coaching experience is designed specifically for those involved in animal care, welfare, or activism (either professionally or voluntarily) who are struggling with compassion fatigue, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress.

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Through expert-led sessions, interactive exercises, and a supportive peer community, you’ll gain the tools and insight needed to:

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• Understand the impact of trauma and chronic stress in animal welfare work

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• Learn how to set boundaries and manage emotional overwhelm

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• Develop sustainable self-care and stress management practices

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• Reconnect with your sense of purpose without sacrificing your well-being

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• Build resilience, clarity, and long-term coping strategies

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Whether you're a shelter worker or volunteer, veterinary professional, ACO or cruelty investigator, wildlife or marine conservationist, activist, or any other type of animal advocate, this program is for you! Compassion fatigue is real. Don't suffer alone. 

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Coaching vs. Therapy: What's the Difference?

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If you're considering joining this group, you might be wondering how it differs from therapy. While both offer support, they serve different purposes.

 

This coaching group may be a good fit for you if:

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• You want high value at an affordable price.

• You want to build resilience, set boundaries, and develop healthy coping strategies to help navigate the emotional challenges of animal care, welfare, or activism. 

• You're looking for goal-oriented guidance, tools, and exercises to help manage compassion fatigue, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress. 

• You thrive in a small, structured community of like-minded people that offers support, accountability, and encouragement. 

• You do not need professional mental health treatment or are currently in treatment and look for a complement to therapy. 

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What this coaching group is NOT:

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• Therapy. Professional therapy is designed for deep emotional healing and mental health treatment for conditions such as depression, PTSD, suicidality, or severe emotional distress. 

• While this group is led by a licensed professional counselor, she is acting as a coach and CANNOT offer a diagnosis or treatment of a mental disorder. 

• While this group will address serious topics such as trauma, it is not a place to process past trauma in depth. While strong emotions may come up, the focus in on moving forward with actionable strategies. 

• Insurance does not cover coaching services, as it is considered personal or professional development rather than healthcare. If you are in need of a mental health professional, please read more here or check out these therapist directories. 

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Now enrolling for the Fall 2025 Cohort

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Join our upcoming group coaching program designed specifically for animal welfare professionals!

 

• Live sessions run Sundays from September 7 through November 16, 2025, from 2:30–4:00 PM EST (with every fourth Sunday off). That’s nine supportive, interactive sessions tailored to help you build resilience and manage compassion fatigue.

• Can’t attend live? No worries—each session is recorded so you can catch up at your convenience.

• To maintain a safe, supportive, and intimate group dynamic, enrollment is limited to 12 participants per cohort.

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​​​​A Note to Organizations:

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To maintain a safe, open, and confidential space for deep reflection and personal growth, we strongly recommend that no more than one staff member from the same organization enroll in a single cohort. Having multiple colleagues in the same group can unintentionally hinder vulnerability and full participation. We encourage organizations to stagger staff participation across different rounds of the program for the best experience.