CE-CERT Foundations Training

April 29 @ 9:00 am – 4:00 pm

In-person Event

Event Overview

There is an emotional toll on helping professionals who engage intensively and empathically with people experiencing physical, emotional, or personal struggles. Working in a profession where caring is our main tool is a privilege—but caring deeply also takes a toll. It is essential to take intentional, active steps to address this inherent aspect of helping work.

This training introduces participants to CE-CERT, a model designed to reduce professional burnout. While CE-CERT was developed to support mental health workers, it defines career-sustaining behaviors for all helping professionals. As in Star Trek, “survival is insufficient.” This training goes beyond survival; its ultimate goal is to help professionals find work that is uniquely fulfilling and deeply satisfying. Throughout the training, participants will explore how exposure to challenging experiences affects the brain, attention, and emotional labor, and will learn practical skills to remain effective and engaged in demanding roles.

This session focuses on five core CE-CERT practice domains:

• Experiential Engagement
• Reducing Rumination
• Conscious Narrative
• Reducing Emotional Labor
• Parasympathetic Recovery

Through teaching, discussion, and experiential exercises, participants learn how these practices interrupt stress activation, reduce cognitive rumination, and support sustained compassionate engagement with clients. By the end of the training, participants will leave with concrete strategies to apply immediately in their daily work and a framework for understanding why traditional self-care approaches often fail to address the mechanisms that drive burnout.

Presenter

Brian Miller, Ph.D.

• Brian C. Miller, PhD is the creator of the CE-CERT model, a skills-based, evidence-informed approach to thriving in the helping professions. He has extensive experience across behavioral health, clinical leadership, policy, and direct practice, and is the author of Reducing Secondary Traumatic Stress: Skills for Sustaining a Career in the Helping Professions. Dr. Miller holds a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University, where he was a Mandel Leadership Fellow. His professional experience includes leadership roles such as Director of Children’s Behavioral Health at Primary Children’s Hospital, Director of Mental Health Services for Salt Lake County, and Clinical Director at Davis Behavioral Health, in addition to work as a psychotherapist in private practice. He provides training and consultation nationally and internationally on secondary trauma, trauma-informed supervision, and implementation processes.

For questions regarding this training, please contact Emily Bennett.

Registration closes April 22!