Professional services for psychologists and counsellors

Vicarious trauma management

Vicarious trauma can seriously impact on the well-being of a workforce and organisation. Managing vicarious trauma not only promotes the wellbeing of staff, it is cost effective and assists organisations in proactively complying with work, health and safety requirements.

Vicarious trauma can produce significant and prolonged human and financial costs in the following areas:

• Employee physical and mental well-being;
• Employee work performance;
• Collegial relationships;
• Workplace culture;
• Staff attrition rates;
• Unplanned absences from the workplace;
• Worker compensation claims.

Supervision debriefing and self-care planning

Full Stop Australia provides vicarious trauma focused external clinical and non-clinical supervision and debriefs for supervisors, managers and front-line workers working in the field of sexual, domestic and/or family violence around Australia.

Ongoing supervision is essential to the wellbeing of trauma counsellors. Researchers and clinicians recommend the use of supervision to help monitor signs of vicarious trauma and to manage symptoms of vicarious trauma as they arise.

Types of supervision: Individual. Clinical (cases), vicarious trauma management.

Duration: Individual - one hour / 1.5 for the first session. Groups supervision - two hours

Mode: Face to face, phone, Skype

Full Stop Australia can also provide self care planning for individuals to offset vicarious trauma by:

• Identifying vicarious trauma symptoms and how to recognise these;
• Discussing management of vicarious trauma;
• Effective self care planning;
• Assessing the effectiveness of self care plans;
• Develop an effective self care plans;
• Assess self-care plans effectively.