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CEU Courses for the Professionals Doing the Hardest Work

Grounded in clinical experience. Designed for real-world application.

 

 If you are a case manager, program coordinator, social worker, or frontline professional in the housing and human services space, you already know what this work costs. You show up for others — often at the expense of your own clarity, boundaries, and sustainability.


These courses were built for you. Not as a checkbox. Not as a requirement to get through. But as a genuine investment in your capacity to do this work — longer, better, and without losing yourself in the process.


Each course is developed by Charlene D. Edwards, MA, LMFT — a licensed therapist with direct experience in housing stability, nonprofit leadership, and mental health practice. The content is clinically grounded, practically applicable, and shaped by real familiarity with the systems you work in every day.

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First Course — Coming September 2026

Nervous System Regulation for Helping Professionals: Sustaining Your Capacity Without Burning Out

 

 

Target Audience

Case managers, program coordinators, social workers, community health workers, and frontline nonprofit staff — particularly those working in housing stability, financial wellness, and social services in the Greater Atlanta area and beyond.

What This Course Addresses

  • Why compassion fatigue looks different from burnout — and why that distinction matters
  • How chronic stress from client-facing work reshapes your nervous system over time
  • Practical regulation tools you can use before, during, and after difficult interactions
  • The difference between emotional empathy and emotional absorption — and how to hold one without suffering the other
  • Building sustainable rhythms that protect your effectiveness without requiring you to care less

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Additional Courses in Development

The following topics are planned for late 2026 and 2027:

  • Compassion Fatigue vs. Compassion Resilience: A Clinical Distinction
  • Emotional Boundaries in the Helping Professions
  • Financial Instability as Psychological Stress: What Case Managers Need to Know
  • Identity Disruption in Client Populations: Practical Frameworks for Support

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