Providing a data-driven, biopsychosocialspiritual approach
to Trauma-Informed Care.
WHAT I OFFER
Congratulations for wanting to transform yourself, your workplace, organization, or an entire system with Trauma-Informed Care (TIC). Some clients come directly through this door; hiring me to assess, recommend, and/or implement best practices. Others hire me to educate and support staff in preventing or mitigating Burnout and/or Secondary Trauma (or the combination known as Compassion Fatigue). Still others arrive as private clients for Primary Trauma Work, and yet another set arrives for my Trauma-Informed Approach to Spiritual Direction and/or Supervision. Along the way, most realize that their healing (or the lack thereof) directly corresponds to whether (or not) they live and work within a trauma-informed workplace, organization, or system. Those with eyes to see realize that collective healing requires transforming larger systems of structural inequities (e.g., class, race, gender), and intentional, comprehensive, and systematic Trauma-Informed Care (TIC).
Whichever door you first walked through to get here, I’m glad you’re here! See below for the various ways we might work together to bring about collective healing.
Whichever door you first walked through to get here, I’m glad you’re here! See below for the various ways we might work together to bring about collective healing.
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COMPASSION FATIGUE
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PRIMARY TRAUMA WORK
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SPIRITUAL DIRECTION
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RETREATS
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SUPERVISION
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You love your job. You love your clients, patients, students, or others entrusted to your care. Or you want to love them. Or you did love them. Now you’re finding it harder and harder to be present to them. To really listen. To not just solve, fix, redirect, and move on with your day. You’re irritable, anxious, depressed, or just can’t feel anything anymore. What in the world happened? To who you were, and to how you used to do your job? In a word: Burnout. In 2 words: Compassion Fatigue. I'm here to help! Learn more here.
Trauma comes in many forms. It can be a sudden, one-time event, overwhelming your ability to cope. Or it can be repetitive and unavoidable, leading to much more complex post-trauma symptoms. It can even occur when you're exposed to a traumatic event more directly experienced by someone else, leading to what is known as Secondary Trauma. Our work together will focus on an evidence-based, three phase approach to healing the effects of these various types of trauma. Learn more here.
A spiritual director helps people notice God’s movement in their lives, however they define God. While we are called ‘directors,’ we do not direct. We listen. We accompany. We trust that the Spirit directs. We provide trust, freedom, and safety to allow you to become more attentive to your experiences of God, and your responses to those experiences. We can help you connect more fully to God, your True Self, other people, and everything you encounter. Another way of saying this is that we guide people toward spiritual literacy. Learn more here.
All of my offerings take a contemplative approach. Contemplative retreats center around silence and solitude as both the goal of our time together and the instrument by which we achieve it. Contemplative practices allow us to better hear ourselves, others, God, and, paradoxically, to remain centered when we feel we cannot hear anything at all. Learn more here.
Being in a supervision relationship is one of the Guidelines for Ethical Conduct of Spiritual Directors International. It is a sacred container for all that we experience as directors. I might have more experience, or a different perspective you value (e.g., trauma, or social justice). But this is a collaborative process. We are colleagues. I am here to support you in being the best version of you that you can bring to your clients. Learn more here.
Mandala image by Nevit Dilmen (CC BY-SA 4.0)