The Ethics of Self-Care: An Art Based Approach

Facilitators: Alison Bartley, LCSW
Read more about our Instructors/Facilitators here.

Fall Dates: 
September 12, 2025
November 7, 2025
Hours: 8:00 AM – 3:00 pm PST
Location:  Online via Zoom
CEs: 6 CEs in Ethics
Clock Hours: 6

This workshop explores our relationship to daily stressors (e.g., work, home, school, etc.), the impact they have (e.g., physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual), and the ethical responsibilities of self-care faced by mental health clinicians. It is designed to illuminate the various types of stress experienced by mental health providers, and to demystify the concepts and applications of “self-care”. Topics will include: stress management, work/life balance, vicarious stress, secondary trauma, counter-transference, compassion fatigue, and occupational burnout. These areas will be examined through the hands-on application of creative and expressive arts, offering practical exercises for mental health clinicians to apply to their personal self-care routines.

Learning Objectives

1. Participants will learn about the ethical responsibilities of self-care and stress management.
2. Participants will learn the impact of stress on professional and personal health.
3. Participants will review the signs and symptoms of burnout, compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma.
4. Participants will learn how to define self-care.
5. Participants will learn how to engage in self-care based on values clarification.
6. Participants will engage in meaningful hands-on creative arts activities to process didactic material.

We consistently hear from participants that our ethics workshop is the best experience they have had getting their required CEs, online or in-person!

The Zoom link will be sent day prior to workshop; please check your spam/junk folder if you don’t see it!

Required Materials

• Here is a list of suggested materials to have on hand for the workshop. You do not need to purchase these exact items, but can use what you have, or purchase from any store that’s convenient. You can also make a mask- instructions will be provided during the workshop. Plan to have construction paper available for the mask.

Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute Cancellation & Refund Policy

Earning Continuing Education Credits

To receive a CE Certificate for completion of this workshop, you must officially register, attend the workshop in its entirety and complete an evaluation form after the workshop. The evaluation form is emailed to you by the following Friday of the workshop. After completing & submitting the evaluation form, a CE Certificate will be emailed to you within 5-7 business days.

Who is eligible to receive CEs?

• Nationally: Approved NBCC Provider for Mental Health Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Licensed Social Workers (you are responsible for confirming that your organization/state will accept NBCC credits.)
• New York Licensed Creative Arts Therapists (LCATs)
• Washington State School Counselor/Teacher (OSPI) Approved by the Washington State Office of Public Instruction as a “Washington State approved clock hour offering workshop.”
• If you are outside of Washington State, we advise that you check with your state licensing board to confirm that they accept NBCC Approved CEs. 

Northwest Creative and Expressive Arts Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists. #CAT-0123.

Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute (NWCEAI) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7104. Programs that do no qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute (NWCEAI) is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.