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The most-innovative staff support programming

Stigma-free training, coaching & relief from:

  • Compassion Fatigue

  • Vicarious Trauma

  • Empathic Strain

  • Secondary Traumatic Stress

  • Psychological Safety

  • Moral Injury

  • Burnout

  • PTSD

  • Staff and leadership online training on the fundamental elements of Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma.

    Length: 2.5 hours total
    Pre-recorded & live components.

    Group size: 100-800+ participants

    Location: Online, globally.

  • In-depth staff, leadership, managerial, and supervisory training to prevent and mitigate all forms of traumatic stress.

    Customized to meet your team’s level of knowledge, experience, needs, and goals.

    Length: 2-6 hours

    Group size: 8 to 100 people

    Location: Sessions are conducted at select sites and confidentially online, globally.

  • Compassion Fatigue RESET® is a 12-week stigma-free therapeutic training and support program that is safe to run amongst colleagues.

    RESET® was the first and remains the most comprehensive program developed to provide CF, STS & VT support to groups of peers. It is our signature program that has been providing results - more successful than individual therapy - for the past eight years.

    RESET® & Relief from the symptoms of:

    • Compassion Fatigue (CF)

    • Vicarious Trauma (VT)

    • Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS)

    • Empathic Strain

    • Moral Injury

    • Burnout

    • PTSD

    Length: Weekly 90-minute sessions for 12 consecutive weeks.

    Group size: 4 to 25 people

    Location: Sessions are conducted confidentially online, globally.

  • Expert-led peer support groups to prevent and reduce symptoms of:

    • Compassion Fatigue (CF)

    • Vicarious Trauma (VT)

    • Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS)

    • Empathic Strain

    • Moral Injury

    • Burnout

    • PTSD

    Customized to fit your workplace culture.

    Length: 75-minute sessions, one time per week for a minimum of 8 weeks.

    Group size: 3 to 15 people

    Location: Sessions are conducted confidentially online globally. Learn more

  • In-depth training for leaders, managers, and supervisors who lead trauma-exposed teams.

    Learn how to prevent and mitigate:

    • Compassion Fatigue (CF)

    • Vicarious Trauma (VT)

    • Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS)

    • Psychological Safety

    • Empathic Strain

    • Moral Injury

    • Burnout

    • PTSD

    Customized to meet your leaders’ level of knowledge, experience, and goals.

    Length: 2 -6 hours

    Group size: 4 to 50 people

    Session conducted at select sites, confidentially online globally, and in conference settings.

  • One-on-one or small group sessions to prevent and reduce symptoms of:

    • Compassion Fatigue (CF)

    • Vicarious Trauma (VT)

    • Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS)

    • Empathic Strain

    • Moral Injury

    • Burnout

    • PTSD

    Length: 1 hour per week for a minimum of 12 weeks.

    Group size: 1-3 people

    Location: Sessions are conducted confidentially online, globally. Learn more

  • Workshops on compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress, empathic fatigue, moral injury, burnout, and vicarious trauma.

    Customized to meet your team’s level of knowledge, experience, and goals.

    Length: 1.5-3 hours

    Group size: 8 to 50 people

    Location: Sessions are conducted confidentially online, globally, and in conference settings.

  • Speaking engagements, interactive keynote presentations, and workshops on:

    • Compassion Fatigue (CF)

    • Vicarious Trauma (VT)

    • Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS)

    • Psychological Safety

    • Empathic Strain

    • Moral Injury

    • Burnout

    • PTSD

    Customized to meet your community’s level of knowledge, experience, needs, and goals.

    Length: 1 -3 hours in length.

    Location: Sessions are conducted at select locations, nationally, and internationally or confidentially online, globally.

    *Payment for services is required.

  • Supportive programming to reduce symptoms of:

    • Compassion Fatigue (CF)

    • Vicarious Trauma (VT)

    • Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS)

    • Psychological Safety

    • Empathic Strain

    • Moral Injury

    • Burnout

    • PTSD

    Our retreat series plugs into your existing retreat agenda with half-day, full-day, and multi-day sessions available. All sessions include psychoeducational and mind-body practices.

    Location: Sessions are conducted at select sites, and confidentially online globally.

  • Our programs and services have been approved and meet various industry standards for continuing education credits on the topics of:

    • Compassion Fatigue (CF)

    • Vicarious Trauma (VT)

    • Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS)

    • Empathic Strain

  • Culture and relationship-building circles that safely and gently address underlying team concerns, while highlighting personal connection.

    Effective in addressing:

    • Psychological Safety

    • Moral Injury

    • Burnout

    • Inclusion

    • Belonging

    Customized to fit your workplace culture.

    Length: 90-minute sessions, one time per week for a minimum of 8 weeks.

    Group size: 3 to 15 people

    Location: Sessions are conducted confidentially online globally. Learn more.

    Contact us for bookings: Inquiry[at]foresthughes.com

Our Approach

Traumatic stress is tricky because it’s not just stress; it’s trauma. We’ve developed a workaround - a way to reach each staff member and activate change.

Rather than cold powerpoints that trigger, our expert-led programs are interactive, therapeutic, memorable, and personal without crossing any professional boundaries. Our learning experiences provide a powerful long-term positive impact that will ripple throughout your organization.

Frontline defense.

Better mental health on-and-off the job
saves lives, lowers liability, and grows retention. 

All of our programs are interactive because humans learn by doing. As trauma specialists and educators, we keep the group safe, motivated, engaged, and wanting more.

Our clients’ words.

  • “It was so healing and cathartic to be able to share these thoughts with fellow educators and realize I am not alone in this struggle."

    — NYC DOE Educator

  • "The perfect atmosphere was created for insight, epiphany, and growth."

    — Staff Supervisor, New York Presbyterian Hospital

  • “You gave me back the control I felt I was losing.”

    — Public Defender

Small group work builds community and capacity in your organization.

  • “As a leader, my eyes were opened to the vast impact of trauma on myself and my staff and I was able to take effective action.”

    — Head of a NYC Government Agency

  • “Every teacher and social work needs these skills and this support to deal with the challenges of their job.”

    — Social Worker in NYC Schools

  • "I could not have gotten to the place I am today without your compassion, diligence, and ability to see me as me.”

    — NYC Leader

“It’s overwhelmingly beautiful. Participants call and email years afterward to express thanks, gratitude and share stories of how our programs have changed their lives.”

— Taryn Hughes, CEO FH&A

  • “I’ve been noticing a build-up, over several years now, of vicarious trauma making me physically sick. Now I have concrete ways to deal with that and colleagues who understand.”

    — Nonprofit Social Worker

  • “It has given us the patience to understand where our department manager may be coming from, and enlightened us to be better communicators - or at least more tolerant - because we now have the tools to survive.”

    — RESET Recovery Participant, NYC Employee

  • “This workshop was really helpful because my last job almost killed me so having tools helps, and I do believe this work really changes things.”

    — Law Enforcement Officer

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