Free Resource for Clinicians
The Clinician’s Grounding Toolkit
Somatic Support for Burnout and Compassion Fatigue
Feeling drained, overwhelmed, or like you’re carrying too much from your work?
This free toolkit offers simple, effective tools rooted in somatic psychology to help you reconnect with your body, regulate your nervous system, and feel supported—without needing to fix anything.
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As clinicians, we are regularly attuned to the pain, complexity, and trauma of others.
This work is deeply meaningful—but it’s also demanding.
Over time, that quiet accumulation of stress, emotional labor, and urgency to help can begin to take its toll. We may find ourselves moving through the day in survival mode—disconnected, overwhelmed, or simply worn thin.
This free toolkit was created to offer something different: Not more information. Not more pressure to improve. But a moment of return—to your body, your breath, and your own nervous system.
Why Somatic Support Matters—A Gentle Reset for the Ones Who Hold So Much
Burnout doesn’t always show up as dramatic collapse. Sometimes it’s subtle: a creeping numbness, a loss of empathy, a quiet exhaustion that never quite lifts.
Working in trauma-focused care often activates our own stress physiology. The nervous system can become stuck in patterns of hypervigilance, freeze, or overfunctioning—even when we appear calm on the outside.
Somatic tools offer clinicians a way to:
- Recognize and shift out of chronic stress states (fight, flight, or freeze)
- Reconnect with internal signals and sensations
- Restore capacity for presence, empathy, and responsiveness
- Cultivate nervous system regulation—without needing to fix anything
These practices aren’t about effort.
They’re about allowing—space, breath, slowness, sensation.
They meet you where you are and help you come home to yourself.
What’s Inside the Toolkit:
Burnout Self-Assessment + Reflection Tool
Burnout can feel murky or invisible until we name it.
This simple, five-category reflection helps you identify how burnout may be showing up—emotionally, physically, socially, and professionally.
Areas include:
- Emotional Exhaustion
- Physical Well-Being
- Personal Fulfillment
- Work-Life Balance
- Social Connection
You’ll be guided to recognize subtle signs, reflect on contributing factors, and sketch a compassionate, realistic path forward. This isn’t a test—it’s a check-in. A moment to ask: how am I really doing?
Three Somatic Reset Practices (All Under 5 Minutes)
Clinician care often happens in the margins—between sessions, in the car, during transitions. These quick, embodied tools help regulate your nervous system in real time.
Practices include:
- Sensory Grounding: A guided return to your present-moment experience through sound, sight, and touch
- Breath + Orientation: A calming reset using breath and visual orientation to restore a sense of safety
- Shake + Settle: A practice to release physical tension and complete stress cycles in the body
No equipment, prep, or perfection required. These are accessible, flexible tools you can return to over and over.
Presence Over Pressure: A Reflection Guide
So many clinicians carry invisible pressure: to help, to fix, to solve.
This brief guide invites you to reframe your sessions—not as spaces of urgency, but of presence.
You’ll explore:
- Why presence is often more regulating than “doing”
- How nervous system attunement supports deep healing
- What it means to co-regulate rather than over-function
This is a reminder: your grounded presence is enough.
This Is a Toolkit, and Also a Reminder
This toolkit is not a solution. It’s a support—something to reach for when you feel off-center or depleted.
It’s a reset, a check-in, and an invitation back to your own body.
It reminds you: you matter, too.
Whether you’re just beginning your career or decades into the work, your well-being is not optional.
Enter your email below to download the Clinician’s Grounding Toolkit and begin the gentle work of restoring presence, regulation, and care—for yourself.
Feeling drained, overwhelmed, or like you’re carrying too much from your work?
This free toolkit offers simple, effective tools rooted in somatic psychology to help you reconnect with your body, regulate your nervous system, and feel supported—without needing to fix anything.
We’ll send occasional updates, resources, and event info. Unsubscribe anytime. We never share your info.
