Burnout-Informed, Trauma-Responsive Tools for Real-World Therapy

You don’t need more theory. You need tools that work in the room—with clients, families, partners, teams, and yourself.

At Helper’s Resource Hub, we create therapist-designed resources that are flexible, field-tested, and clinically sound. Whether you’re an individual provider, family therapist, couples counselor, or school-based clinician, our materials help you translate complex stress responses into accessible, trauma-informed language and practice.

These tools were built to support sessions, strengthen systems, and reduce therapist prep time—without watering down the work.

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What Makes Our Resources Different 

Dual-Purpose Design for Therapists and Clients
Everything we offer is designed to support you as a clinician while also being immediately usable with your clients. Use our tools for your own regulation, to guide sessions, assign between-session tasks, or refer clients to self-paced options that match their bandwidth.

For Individuals, Couples, Families, and Groups
Our materials are used across settings—individual therapy, couples counseling, parenting sessions, group work, and even in consultation with educators or care teams. Tools like our Stress Animal Cards and Burnout Recovery Kit help clients depersonalize conflict, understand nervous system reactions, and build healthier communication patterns.

Family- and Parent-Friendly by Design
We intentionally created resources that are accessible to families navigating:

• Language barriers

• Limited literacy

• Low emotional vocabulary

• Time and bandwidth constraints
  The Stress Animals Model helps entire families speak a shared, visual language of stress, making co-regulation and empathy more possible, even when reading skills or cultural differences make traditional psychoeducation less effective.

 

Trauma-Informed and Neurodiversity-Affirming
All materials are designed with visual pacing, plain language, and self-compassion as core values. They're appropriate for use with clients who are trauma-impacted, neurodivergent, highly sensitive, or emotionally avoidant—and they support clinicians working within somatic, attachment-based, CBT, or integrative frameworks.

 

Burnout Tools for You and the Systems You Serve
Our burnout recovery resources help clinicians and clients alike recognize the signs of chronic stress, explore the deeper roots of emotional fatigue, and practice sustainable self-connection. Use them to:

• Map burnout cycles in couples work

• Facilitate emotional safety in group settings

• Guide identity work and self-advocacy

• Prevent vicarious trauma in your own practice
  From quick resets to full recovery plans, these tools meet you where you are—whether you’re surviving a hard season or helping others through theirs.

 

Customizable, Modular, and Low-Commitment
You can use our resources as a structured curriculum (6–8 week intervention) or grab one handout for a client who just needs a place to start. No intensive training. No license restrictions. No clinical translation needed.

Built for the Flow of Real Practice
All content is written at an 8th-grade reading level and emotionally accessible to clients with various cognitive or cultural needs. Clinicians gain structure and insight tools without extra prep. Clients gain self-awareness, emotional language, and practical regulation skills they can actually use.

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Includes Embedded Assessment & Risk Support
Our burnout materials include optional PHQ-9 and GAD-7 integration, making mental health screening and suicide risk check-ins a seamless part of your workflow—especially useful in brief therapy, wellness coaching, and integrated care settings.

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The Stress Animals Model in Therapy

Originally developed for school-based SEL, our Stress Animals™ Model has become one of the most effective psychoeducation tools for therapists working with all ages.

Each card represents a nervous system response:

• Tiger (Fight)

• Cheetah (Flight)

• Turtle (Freeze)

• Deer (Fawn)

• Hummingbird (Regulated State)

Every card includes:

• Concrete calming strategies

• Coaching and self-talk phrases

• Client-friendly language and visuals

Use them to:

• Introduce somatic stress responses in individual or family therapy

• Help couples depersonalize conflict and name their patterns

• Teach co-regulation in parenting work

• Open hard conversations in adolescent group sessions

• Provide culturally neutral, literacy-friendly regulation tools

These visuals support work across modalities including EMDR, DBT, IFS, EFIT, and narrative approaches.

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Therapist-Focused. Client-Ready. System-Aware.

Where our tools are used:

• Private practices and agency settings

• School counseling and IEP planning

• Couples therapy and conflict repair

• Trauma processing and safety planning

• Family psychoeducation

• Group therapy sessions

• Staff wellness programs

• Brief interventions and medical integration

 

Want a Custom Toolkit?

We work with clinicians, supervisors, and wellness teams to co-create toolkits that fit the needs of your clients, caseload, and setting.

You can:

• Request a custom SEL or burnout package

• Schedule a consultation for agency or practice support

• Apply for our Drop by Drop Donation Program to bring resources into community-based work

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Therapy is hard enough. Let your tools hold some of the weight.
Let’s build a more accessible, sustainable way to do the work—together.