Burnout and Emotional Exhaustion
An Experiential Approach Focused on the Mental Health Clinician
July 30th, 2026 | 1pm to 5pm Central Time | Online Training | 4 CE’s available
Date Friday April 24 to Monday April 27 at Hilton Tampa Airport Westshore
Inspired Memory Care, provider #1756, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Inspired Memory Care maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period:11/19/24-11/19/27. Social workers participating in this course receive 4 continuing education credits.
Summary
Burnout and emotional exhaustion have become increasingly prevalent among mental health clinicians due to increased work stress, job demands, and clinical complexity. It is widely understood as being the result of chronic, unmanaged stress, characterized by emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and the feeling of reduced professional efficacy. The core component of burnout is the individual’s clinician’s feeling that they lack the internal resources to continue the work.
Recent research indicates that burnout rates are increasing across all healthcare professions, with emotional exhaustion strongly linked to decreased job satisfaction, increased turnover, and mental health concerns such as anxiety and depression. While organizational factors are important, this training will focus specifically on the individual clinician’s emotional needs, the how burnout is a response to the chronic stress around meeting these emotional needs.
This training provides clinicians with a framework for understanding burnout through the lens of their own emotional needs, and the impact these needs have on their daily functioning. Participants will learn to better understand the strategies they use to meet their emotional needs, as well as their individual experience when their needs aren’t met. Finally, participants will focus on interrupting the process of burnout by focusing on self-acceptance, gratefulness, and the opportunity to let go of old emotional patterns that feed the process of burnout. The primary goal of this training is the give the individual clinician an understanding of the impact their emotional needs have on their daily functioning, as well as experiential tools they can use to interrupt, and change the emotional process that leads to burnout.
Learning Objectives
- Be able to understand the concept of primary emotional needs, as well as how they are organized, maintained, and developed. The participant will develop an experiential awareness of their own emotional needs, and then generalize this skill so that they can assist others to do the same.
- Display an understanding of the Satir model of emotional leveling, as well as a basic archetypal structure of emotional needs. The goal is for the participant to develop the tools to help another person level with themselves emotionally, and then be able to quickly see the impact of archetypal emotional needs on mood, affect, and behavior.
- Participants will understand the impact of chronic protection strategies on their own emotional functioning, and how this leads to burnout.
- Participants will develop experiential skills they can use to interrupt the burnout process, and bring new emotional learning that reframes the burnout process in a useful way.
Training Outline 4 hours
Hour 1: Foundations of Burnout and Emotional Exhaustion
- The primacy of emotional need: The organization of function in the world
- Gestalt Psychotherapy and the experience of top dog – underdog thinking
- Emotional need and function in the world: A learned strategy
- Experiencing the nervous systems need to be safe and correct
Hour 2: The Satir model and emotional leveling
- The concept of emotional leveling, and learned coping strategies
- An experience of the Satir coping stances, and the emotionally leveled position
- The practice of emotional leveling
- Practice and questions
Hour 3: Archetypal structure of emotional need: A Heuristic
- Present emotional need as an archetypal vs individual process
- The Heuristic: Competency, Security, Freedom, Belonging, and Self Expression
- Understanding state dependence and your map of reality
- Techniques that change the state of the NS. Practice and discussion
Hour 4: Emotional Need and Intervention
- It’s not a mental health issue, it’s about maturity
- Fritz Perls concept of emotional maturity
- The movement into growth, and maturity as an intervention
- Techniques to interrupt emotional patterns: The six-step reframe. Practice and discussion
Cost:
$150 per person and space is limited. If you wish to attend this training, call Sioux Falls Hypnosis at 605-702-6691 to begin your registration process.
Refunds/Cancelations:
If a student cancels prior to the first day of training, they will receive a complete refund, minus applicable credit card, or other transfer fees. If a student does not feel that the training course fits their needs at the end of the first day, they will receive a complete refund minus any applicable transfer fees. If a student completes the training, and does not feel satisfied with training, they will be refunded half of the cost of the training. Any other complaint or dispute can be addressed directly with Dr. Burow.
Trainer
Daniel Burow is a psychologist, consultant, trainer, and C-suite executive for mental health operations nation wide. He started his career as a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of South Dakota School of Medicine. He left this position to be a founding partner, and Vice President of Operations at Curaquick, one of the nation’s first retail health care chains. The Curaquick team opened low-cost health care clinics in seven states working with both Walmart and HyVee stores. Daniel sold his interests in Curaquick, and went on to become the Chief Clinical Officer at Deer Oaks Mental Health. He was part of the management team that took Deer Oaks from 180 clinicians in 9 states to 360 clinicians in 19 states.
During his time at Deer Oaks, the company went from 13 million to 30 million a year in revenue. Daniel left Deer Oaks to take the position of Vice President of Operations with Medoptions, the nation’s largest provider of behavioral health services in rehabilitation and long-term care. At Medoptions he worked with a staff of more than 800 Social Workers, Psychologists and Psychiatrists providing care in 21 states, including psychotherapy and psychiatry services.
Currently, Daniel is the Director of Clinical Operations at Sailor Health, the nation’s premier online behavioral health service specializing in older adults. He is also the president of the Master Hypnotist Society which provides training, certification, supervision, and support for both clinical, and lay hypnotists across the U.S. and Canada. Daniel is the author of Rebels Poets and Mystics, published in 2008, The Bigger Picture, published in 2021 and available on Amazon, and his latest book, Change and Maturity published in 2025, available at masterhypnotistsociety.com.
