From Stress to Success: Mindfulness Tools for Your Self-Care Toolbox

This workshop equips therapeutic professionals with practical mindfulness and emotional regulation tools to reduce stress and enhance well-being in their personal and professional lives. Participants will explore the impact of chronic stress and trauma on themselves and their clients, learn evidence-based techniques to manage stress, and explore strategies to promote their own resilience in the face of compassion fatigue and secondary trauma. This interactive session offers space for direct application, fostering deeper self-awareness and self-compassion to prevent burnout and support compassionate, effective client care.

Learning Objectives, Participants will be able to:

1. Identify the body’s stress response and understand the long-term effects of chronic stress on personal well-being and client care.

2. Discuss the importance of emotional regulation in managing personal stress and supporting clients’ therapeutic progress.

3. Compile actionable mindfulness techniques for managing stress, enhancing resilience, and staying within the window of tolerance.

4. Plan to incorporate mindfulness-based practices into daily routines to prevent burnout and promote sustainable professional wellness.

Speaker Bio:

Dr. Stephanie Maietta Romero is the founder and Executive Director of Awaken Pittsburgh where she works to bring mindfulness practices to those who are experiencing high levels of stress and secondary trauma throughout Western PA. Dr. Romero has 20+ years of experience teaching elementary, middle school, high school, and college students. She is a certified Meditation and Mindfulness Instructor, 200RYT Antiracist Raja Yoga teacher and has been a meditator and mindfulness practitioner since the early 2000s. Finding that her meditation practice profoundly influenced both her personal and professional lives, Dr. Romero explored the integration of mindfulness into her classroom space through her dissertation, culminating three years of research into mindfulness in education. She is grateful to be able to bring these life-changing practices to individuals and systems every day.

Host or Publisher CURE, Carlow University