Burnout proof your practice

Using ACT Principles to Create
a Sustainable Business Model

You have the expertise, the experience, and the empathy.
Preparing to be a therapist did not prepare us to be a marketing geniuses.

While graduate training prepares counselors to deliver effective clinical care, it often leaves gaps in foundational business skills—particularly when it comes to attracting and retaining clients in an ethical and sustainable way. This program bridges that gap by applying the principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to the development of a burnout resistant private practice.

Using the ACT Hexaflex as a guiding framework, participants will assess the sustainability of their current business practices, clarify their values and niche, and create aligned clinical policies and marketing strategies. This training offers both reflective and practical tools to support counselors in building practices that are not only clinically effective, but also congruent with their long term professional wellbeing.

Friday September 8, 2025
Noon-4:00pm
Location TBD
3.5 CEs (in person)
$300 (Early bird pricing)
$375 (After 8/1)

Objectives:

After completing the program, participants will be able to:

  • Identify individual behavioral and systemic factors that contribute to professional burnout within their current practice model.

  • Create client facing messaging that clearly communicates their scope of practice, clinical approach, and target population.

  • Apply Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) concepts—specifically values clarification and the choice point model—to guide ethical marketing and business decision making.

  • Design a personalized burnout prevention and management plan that integrates professional values, capacity planning, and sustainable operational practices.

The presenter will utilize lectures, discussions, videos, and case studies to support the learning objectives and facilitate learning.

presented by: Lauren Ruth Martin LPC-MHSP

  • LICENSED THERAPIST

    I’m a licensed therapist and owner of Novel Counseling in Franklin, TN. As a fresh grad, I jumped into offering DBT and thrived with high acuity clients. As life shifted, my practice had to shift…easier said than done. I will share my personal experience of using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to reshape my private practice.

  • National Speaker

    Work/Life balance is a common issue discussed in my sessions…so common that I saw a need for corporations and associations to have open discussions about mental health in the workplace. Companies like Dell, Axios, SHRM, and News Channel 5 Nashville have trusted me to share honest truths about burnout recovery and productivity guilt.

  • Founder: Nine to Kind

    I took committed action in 2022 to begin building a planner brand that focused on everything BUT productivity. Lauren created a planning system that helps you find your way into more compassion, flexibility and possibilities. Nine to Kind was built with those who are doing the most in mind. The planner—and most importantly the community—was brought together to be a space where we could all feel supported and understood.

CE Credit:  Lauren Ruth Martin LLC is seeking approval to offer Burnout Proof Your Practice for continuing education credit. Please check back for updates.

About the Presenter: Lauren Ruth Martin, LPC-MHSP is a licensed professional counselor (TN #3947) at Novel Counseling, LLC, holding a Master’s in Arts (M.A.) in Counseling from Trevecca Nazarene University. Lauren’s career spans in both clinical and non-clinical work including experience in media, marketing, entrepreneurship and education. Lauren’s clinical focuses include treatment resistant depression, maladaptive overcontrol, perfectionism, neurodivergence, and grief. Outside of Novel Counseling, Lauren is the Founder of Nine to Kind, a therapy-influenced planner focused on increasing mental flexibility and self compassion. Lauren bridges her clinical education, lived experience as a neurodivergent perfectionist, and business savvy as a corporate speaker on burnout and business coach for therapists.

Materials: All registered participants will receive the seminar materials approximately 3 days before the training via email.

Refund Policy: Full refunds will be available until Monday, 8/25/25. After Monday 8/25/25, refunds of 50% of the registration fee will be offered until 9/3/25. Any 9/3/25 no refunds will be given. 

If you need any special accommodations or have additional questions, please contact Lauren Martin @ info@laurenruthmartin.com or 615-570-1867.