Compassion Fatigue is the result of being burned out due to overwork and repeated exposure to secondary traumatic stress. This is commonplace in helping professions such as counseling, nursing, advocacy, and emergency response services. Compassion fatigue doesn’t happen because you don’t care, it happens because you care too much. If you are human services professional and you once loved helping others but now you need help. You are not alone. Please reach out. I am here to help and I understand that you want to feel like what you do matters. You want to feel capable and hopeful, and you want to love your job or you love your job. However, you also want quality time for yourself and your family, and you want to feel confident doing what you need to do to make that happen. Lets work on creating a sustainable work lifet.