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For those of you in or entering the field, there is a social group here at PC for mental health professionals. Please consider joining the group. We have discussions of the sort of things you mention here.
Bridges, in my opinion, the one key to not becoming jaded is to have good boundaries. Someone mentioned compartmentalizing, that's a great skill. Part of the learning process in the field is learning how to leave work at work. As mentioned, talk to your profs about this. Another part of not becoming jaded is good self-care. Do what you need to do to take care of yourself. If that means seeing a therapist, by all means see a therapist.
Someone mentioned feeling inadequate. Personal story, my state requires two years post-graduate school supervision before you can become licensed. First supervision session after I got my diploma, I told my supervisor I was scared silly because I just realized how much I didn't know. She smiled and said "And that's why you have to have two years supervision. You are developmentally right where you ought to be." We had a good conversation about how good budding therapists know their limitations and how scary the "know it all" recent graduates are.
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