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SELF-CARE FOR THERAPISTS – TERMS OF COMPLETION
You will have one year from the date of purchase to complete the course. At the Mindful Ecotherapy Center, course materials are reviewed and updated on a regular basis to ensure they reflect current best practices, research developments, and continuing education standards required for professional relevance and accreditation alignment.
Because of this ongoing process of revision, the content you receive at the time of purchase is considered part of a living curriculum that may be enhanced or refined over time. To ensure fairness to all learners and to maintain the integrity of the training experience, you are granted one year from the date of purchase to complete your course.
This timeframe gives you sufficient opportunity to engage with the material at a steady, meaningful pace while also ensuring you are working within the most current version of the curriculum. After one year, continued access may require re-enrollment at an additional cost to reflect any updates or improvements made to the course content.
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Course Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to
- Identify early warning signs and symptoms of professional burnout, including compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and emotional exhaustion.
- Explain the core principles of Mindfulness-Based Ecotherapy and its relevance to therapists’ well-being.
- Apply mindfulness and nature-based practices to support emotional regulation and stress reduction.
- Develop practical self-care strategies that integrate ecotherapy principles into daily professional life.
- Recognize personal and professional patterns that contribute to burnout, including boundary challenges and overextension.
- Strengthen reflective practice skills to support ongoing self-awareness and emotional monitoring.
- Create a sustainable self-care framework that supports long-term resilience and clinical effectiveness.
Instructor Qualifications and Contact Information
This course was created by Charlton Hall, MMFT, PhD.
Charlton Hall, MMFT, PhD, is a former Marriage and Family Therapy Supervisor and a former Registered Play Therapy Supervisor (now retired from both those roles).
In 2008, he was awarded a two-year post-graduate fellowship through the Westgate Training and Consultation Network to study mindfulness and ecotherapy. His chosen specialty demographic at that time was Borderline Personality Disorder.
Dr. Hall has been providing training seminars on mindfulness and ecotherapy since 2007, when he founded what would become the Mindful Ecotherapy Center, PLLC, and has been an advocate for education in ecotherapy and mindfulness throughout his professional career, serving on the South Carolina Association for Marriage and Family Therapy’s Board of Directors as Chair of Continuing Education from 2012 to 2014.
He served as the Chair of Behavioral Health for ReGenesis Health Care from 2014 to 2016 and trained all the medical staff in suicide risk assessment and prevention during his employment at that agency.
Dr. Hall is also a trained SMART Recovery Facilitator and served as a Volunteer Advisor in South Carolina for several years.
Dr. Hall’s area of research and interest is using Mindfulness and Ecotherapy to facilitate acceptance and change strategies within a family systemic framework, and he has presented research at several conferences and seminars on this and other topics.
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DISCLAIMER
The Mindful Ecotherapy Center, PLLC is a National Board for Certified Counselors Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7022. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Mindful Ecotherapy Center, PLLC, is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
All course materials for this online home study continuing education course are evidence-based, with clearly defined learning objectives, references and citations, and post-course evaluations. Upon request, a copy of this information and a course description containing objectives, course description, references, and citations will be given to you for your local licensing board.
All of our courses and webinars contain course objectives, references, and citations as part of the course materials; however, it is your responsibility to check with your local licensure board for suitability for continuing education credit.
No warranty is expressed or implied as to approval or suitability for continuing education credit regarding jurisdictions outside of the United States or its territories.
If a participant or potential participant would like to express a concern about his/her experience with the Mindful Ecotherapy Center, NBCC ACEP #7022, he/she may call or e-mail at (864) 384-2388 or chuck@mindfulecotherapy.com. Emails generally get faster responses.
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Although we do not guarantee a particular outcome, the individual can expect us to consider the complaint, make any necessary decisions, and respond within 24 to 48 hours.
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