Practicing Under Pressure: Supporting Yourself and Your Clients Within Compounded Traumatic Reality

A Two-Day Online Training for Mental Health Professionals Presented by Dr. Rotem Regev, PhD, R.Psych. | International Centre for Collective Resilience (ICFCR)

November 8-9, 2026 | 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM PST | 12:00 PM - 7:30 PM EST | Live Online via Zoom

This program is co-sponsored by ICFCR and The Wellness Institute

Workshop Overview

Jewish mental health practitioners and clinicians serving Jewish clients may face distinct clinical and professional challenges when personal identity, collective trauma, antisemitism, and professional responsibilities intersect.

This training introduces Compounded Traumatic Reality (CTR), an evidence-informed framework for understanding the convergence of collective trauma exposure, identity-based stress, professional isolation, and clinical care. The workshop examines how these conditions may shape clinicians' internal experience, therapeutic presence, boundary awareness, and clinical decision-making.

Participants will engage with research-informed concepts related to collective trauma, vicarious traumatization, shared traumatic reality, minority stress, traumatic invalidation, and culturally responsive practice. Through didactic teaching, reflective exercises, and applied clinical discussion, participants will learn strategies that support relational connection, validation, identity affirmation, adaptive agency, reflective integration, and meaning-making in clinicians and clients.

This workshop is designed for Jewish mental health practitioners and allied clinicians who support Jewish clients and communities.

What You Will Gain

• A clear, research-grounded framework for understanding and naming what you are experiencing professionally and personally
• Concrete tools for maintaining therapeutic presence and clinical effectiveness across different client realities
• Somatic, relational, and meaning-making practices you can apply immediately - with clients and for yourself
• Strategies for navigating professional environments marked by institutional silence, omission, or hostility
• A professional community that understands this reality from the inside

Learning Objectives

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Differentiate among compassion fatigue, vicarious traumatization, Shared Traumatic Reality (STR), and Compounded Traumatic Reality (CTR)
2. Identify the mental health impacts of antisemitism, traumatic invalidation, and identity-based stress on Jewish clinicians and clients
3. Describe how CTR may affect clinicians across personal, clinical, institutional, and societal domains
4. Apply somatic, relational, and meaning-making practices to support therapeutic presence, boundary awareness, and clinical effectiveness
5. Apply trauma-informed and culturally responsive strategies that support resilience, identity affirmation, connection, and meaning-making in clinicians and clients affected by collective trauma and identity-based stress​

Continuing Education

The Wellness Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.  TWI maintains responsibility for th

is program and its content. CE Credits: 12.0The New York. State Education Department recognizes the Wellness Institute as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed Psychologists, LMSWs, LCSWs, LMHCs and LMFTs, Social Workers, LMFTs, and LPC/LMHC in many states can satisfy their continuing education requirements at this event. Contact info@wellnessinstitute.org for more information.​

About the Trainer

Dr. Rotem Regev is a Registered Psychologist in British Columbia and the founder of the International Centre for Collective Resilience (ICFCR). She holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Victoria and brings deep expertise as a trainer, facilitator, and consultant to organizations supporting their Jewish staff's identity and resilience. Born in Israel and a third-generation Holocaust survivor, she carries a lineage of resilience that deeply informs her work. Dr. Regev coined the term Compounded Traumatic Reality (CTR) to describe the convergence of collective grief, antisemitism, systemic invalidation, and professional isolation. She draws on Jewish wisdom traditions, resilience research, and experiential practice to mitigate the effects of CTR. Dr. Regev is a sought-after speaker, consultant, and trainer on collective trauma, resilience, antisemitism, and identity-responsive care, with peer-reviewed publications and training programs across North America.