Mitigating Vicarious Trauma

An Introduction

This 60-minute course helps you understand vicarious trauma as a workplace health and safety issue and explore how exposure to distressing events or material can affect people over time.

Across four short modules, you’ll learn how stress and trauma exposure interact, how vicarious trauma can show up in everyday work, and how to recognise early warning signs in yourself and others. Rather than focusing on personal resilience alone, the course highlights how work design, safer information-sharing, and everyday practices can reduce unnecessary exposure and support wellbeing.

You’ll be encouraged to notice what’s already working in your role and experiment with small, practical changes, including simple self-resourcing strategies, that can help make work feel safer and more sustainable.

Learning outcomes

Identify exposure to traumatic events and content as an occupational hazard.
Recognise the relationship between stress and trauma exposure and the multiple mechanisms of potential injury.
Recognise the potential individual and collective impacts of vicarious trauma.
Recognise and respond to early warning signs in yourself and others.
Identify the factors that increase the risk of exposure leading to injury.
Map the mechanisms of trauma mobility in the workplace and engage in safe information-sharing practices.
Use strategies during the workday to look after your wellbeing.

Learning journey

This program unfolds over four modules that build on one another.


Together, they explore what vicarious trauma is, how it shows up in daily work, and what supports safer, more sustainable systems for everyone.


This 60-minute e-learn will help you understand the issue and find practical ways to make work safer and more sustainable.

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Amy Nicholas

Amy Nicholas is a consultant, facilitator and researcher specialising in vicarious trauma mitigation.

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