Consultation Topics

For organizations, non profits, colleges, schools, and group practices

Secondary trauma, vicarious trauma; caring for self while caring for others; longevity of career and preventing burn out

• Somatic practices and ways to listen to your body

• Bottom up trauma work vs. top down trauma work

• Processing client’s data, information, and traumas without “taking on” their trauma

• Outlining the dangers of empathy and types of empathy (cognitive, affective)

• Beyond trauma informed care to resilience informed care (“What happened to you?” vs. “How did you get through that?”)

• Beyond self care to community care

• Identifying your values and strengths: who and what matters most to you

Working with complex trauma and PTSD; assessment, interventions, processing, reflection

• Stages and phases of trauma therapy

• Understand how experience shapes the brain, impacts of trauma on the brain (particularly the developing brain) and the physiology of trauma

• Attuning to attachment issues

• Shame in the therapy room

• Strength based work, empowerment, and symptoms as adaptive and ways of survival

• Racial trauma

• Sexual violence