Emergent research is confirming what many US healthcare workers have been experiencing since 2020 – the exacting mental health toll of the COVID-19 pandemic. Healthcare workers in cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation faced particularly unique challenges during this pandemic, such as working in facilities with increased risk of exposure, caring for a population recognized as high-risk for a severe course of COVID-19, and adjusting to abrupt changes in service delivery models. Past research on healthcare workers who navigated other infectious disease outbreaks, including Ebola (2014-2015), SARS (2003), and MERS (2012, 2015), tells us that the detrimental effects of such an event on mental health can persist even after the crisis has ended. Therefore, building resiliency among cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation healthcare workers is imperative for maintaining their physical and mental wellbeing, as well as that of their patients. Drawing from research on large-scale collective traumas, occupational burnout, compassion fatigue, and posttraumatic stress and growth, this session is intended to facilitate a timely conversation about how to help the helpers. This session presents the latest research about how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the mental health of healthcare workers, contextualizes these findings within the broader literature on stress and resilience, and provides actionable resiliency-building steps for cardiac and pulmonary healthcare workers and their patients.