Self-Care Resources for Counselors

Counseling Today Articles

• Recognizing burnout and compassion fatigue among counselors
• Tips to navigate workload and prevent burnout
• Counselor burnout during COVID-19
• Why your own therapy is so important as a counselor
• Wellness: Aiming for an ever-moving target
• Yoga-informed self-care strategies to help counselors avoid burnout
• Opening keynote underscores a holistic approach to self-care
• Paths to wellness
• Wellness: Getting beyond the buzzword
• The revised meaning of self-care in the wake of COVID-19
• Self-care for the activist counselor
• The battle against burnout
• Behind the Book: Counselor Self-Care (2nd edition) 

Featured Product

Counselor Self-Care 2nd Edition
Gerald Corey, Michelle Muratori, Jude T. Austin II and Julius A. Austin

This inspirational book for students, clinicians, educators and supervisors offers practical perspectives on the lifelong quest for personal wellness. Through conversational, diverse and deeply personal narratives, the authors reveal their self-care journeys at various stages of their careers, and 39 guest contributors—ranging from graduate students to counseling veterans—share how they overcome setbacks and prioritize self-care to maintain competent, ethical practice.

Self-Care Journal Articles

• Black women's help-seeking and self-care strategies: A phenomenological exploration
• Effects of imbalance of self- and other-care on counselors' burnout
• “I'm prepared for this moment”: The role of mindfulness in the psychosocial health of women of color
• Pandemic impact on higher education faculty self-care, burnout, and compassion satisfaction

Continuing Education

• Pandemic: Empathy Fatigue and Counselor Resiliency
• Self-Care for the Counseling Profession
• Wellness Integration in Professional Counseling: A Grounded Theory
• Course – Psychological Intervention for Obesity

ACA Member Blogs

• Identifying and Overcoming Burnout: Essential Practices for Counselors
•  Self-Care…Why?