secondary traumatic stress

Bearing Witness to Clients’ Traumatic Experiences in Psychotherapy and Therapist Mental Health

Early 2020 has brought with it a number of unprecedented challenges. These challenges include navigating the coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic and combating police brutality and racism more broadly while in the midst of that pandemic. For some, experiencing or witnessing actual or threatened harm from COVID-19 may be traumatic (Horesh & Brown, 2020). Further, the deaths […]

Elizabeth Penix, M.S.

August 27, 2020