Building Immunity to Compassion Fatigue

Dr. Toy interviews evidence-based compassion fatigue expert Sharice Nance, LCSW. Sharice openly shares her early failure with the licensing exam and how she pushed past testing anxiety to build a thriving private practice. She maps out the ‘compassion stress cycle’—tracing the stages from secondary trauma and vicarious trauma down to compassion fatigue and full burnout. They discuss individual self-soothing, systemic capacity building, and organizational responsibility.