CE-CERT: Components for Enhancing Career Experience and Reducing Trauma

Caring for Others Is Meaningful Work. It Can Also Take a Toll.

Helping professionals are often exposed to the emotional impact of trauma, crisis, loss, and human suffering. Over time, this exposure can contribute to compassion fatigue, burnout, vicarious trauma, and secondary traumatic stress.

CE-CERT provides practical, evidence-informed strategies to help professionals reduce the impact of secondary trauma, strengthen resilience, and sustain a meaningful career in the helping professions.

The goal is not simply to survive the work — but to build a vocation that is deeply satisfying, sustainable, and grounded in purpose.

Featured Presenter

Brian Miller, PhD

National Trainer | Author | Consultant

Brian Miller, PhD provides training and consultation nationally and internationally on secondary trauma, trauma-informed supervision, and implementation processes.

He is the author of Reducing Secondary Traumatic Stress: Skills for Sustaining a Career in the Helping Professions. The second edition was released in 2025.

Dr. Miller’s professional experience includes leadership roles in children’s behavioral health, county mental health services, trauma programming for families with young children, clinical behavioral health services, state mental health systems, and private psychotherapy practice.

He holds a PhD from Case Western Reserve University, where he was a Mandel Leadership Fellow. He is a past board president for the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Utah Chapter, serves on editorial review boards for Traumatology and Contemporary Psychotherapy, and was among the founding members of the Secondary Traumatic Stress Consortium.

Who Should Attend?

This training is designed for professionals who support individuals, families, children, or communities experiencing stress, trauma, crisis, or complex needs.

Ideal participants include:

• Therapists

• Counselors

• Social workers

• Psychologists

• Medical professionals

• Child welfare professionals

• Victim advocates

• First responders

• Law enforcement and crisis response teams

• Domestic violence advocates

• School-based mental health professionals

• Early childhood professionals

• Supervisors, managers, and team leaders

• Student support professionals

• Anyone in a helping profession exposed to secondary trauma

What to Expect

This two day in-person training will offer a practical, engaging learning experience focused on skills that participants can apply immediately in their professional and personal lives.

Participants will explore:

• Why traditional self-care and work/life balance approaches often fall short

• How secondary traumatic stress affects emotional well-being

• The five CE-CERT practice domains

• Practical tools to reduce rumination and support recovery

• Strategies for strengthening resilience during times of job strain

• Ways to reconnect with meaning, purpose, and professional fulfillment

Participants should expect a thoughtful, skill-building training experience that includes reflection, real-world examples, and practical tools for sustaining the work.

What’s Included?

Your registration includes:

• Two full days of in-person training

• Lunch is provided both days

• 13 NBCC Clock Hours for mental health professionals

• Training materials

• Opportunities for reflection and professional connection

• Certificate of completion