Online Trainings

I worked hard to create an online training series that captures my content and my energy and passion for material I know is life-saving and changing. Get the same content as delivered in my in-person trainings with all the efficiency, cost-savings, and flexibility of online training. My online hosting site offers interactive trainings accessible on every device while tracking learners’ progress through the content.

Trauma-Informed Care

Recent research on the brain and trauma gives those working in the helping professions a new paradigm to conceptualize and work with the people they serve. Understanding how trauma impacts brain development puts harmful behaviors and destructive thinking patterns in context and gives us a roadmap for building relationships and promoting healing and growth. By applying this Trauma-Informed Paradigm, workers can minimize retraumatization while creating an environment for the traumatized individual to regain control of their lives.

Trauma-Informed Communication & Motivational Interviewing

This training provides a trauma-informed framework for building relationships and helping people make behavioral change. Motivational Interviewing or MI provides a set of best practice approaches and strategies to guide how we structure our interactions and set up programming. This training builds off the concepts presented in Matt’s books Connecting Paradigms and Talking about Trauma & Change that avoid retraumatization, facilitate challenging conversations, and help those with trauma contemplate difficult behavioral and life changes.

Self-care

Healing and helping professionals are at risk of experiencing issues that mirror those of the people they serve. Research demonstrates the dangerous impact on physical and emotional health when exposed to trauma is combined with a stressful work environment. Knowledge is the best defense against burnout, vicarious trauma, and compassion fatigue. Self-care goes further than other self-care trainings by addressing the critical elements of health to enhance productivity and quality of work on both an individual and organizational level.

Trauma-Informed Leadership

The stress of working with people struggling with trauma has put those in the helping and healing professions at significant risk for burnout and other dangers. Trauma-Informed Leadership gives leaders the skills and knowledge necessary to propel their programs and organizations towards excellence. This training provides a practical model designed to enhance staff health while maximizing system and organizational outcomes. Learners will leave this training with a new paradigm of leadership and a set of skills to implement in the supervision of staff and management of programs.

Trauma-Informed Care (Condensed Version)

For those without the time to go through the full Trauma-Informed Care Training, this shorter version is perfect! This training covers the science of trauma and its impact on medical, social, cognitive, and mental health. It also touches on approaches that help integrate trauma-informed principles into practice. It also gives people the foundational information needed to get the most out of the Trauma-Informed Communication & Motivational Interviewing and Trauma-Informed Leadership Training if they do not have time for the full training.

Trauma-Informed Communication & Motivational Interviewing (Condensed Version)

A great training for those looking to understand the foundations of trauma-informed communication and Motivational Interviewing. For those not work directly with people receiving services or do not have the time for the full training, this shorter version helps support staff who are integrating the concepts presented in the full version. It also gives the curious learner a great introduction to the concepts of trauma-informed Motivational Interviewing.