Trauma Sensitivity Training For Healthcare & Wellness Providers
Are you prepared for people who freeze or start to panic in your office?
Do you know what to do when your client or patient suddenly bursts into tears and you don't know why?
Do you understand the difference between a disgruntled customer and a traumatized individual having a "fight" response?
Details of Winter 2024 Advanced Trauma Sensitivity Training
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YOUR COMMITMENT: 2 Full Days of Training + 3 lunchtime Consults
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FORMAT: Live Online Interactive Webinar
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WHO: Physical Therapists; Limited Spots Available
- COST: $450/person (group rates available)
- CCUs: 21 (TPTA approved)
(This training will be recorded for future training purposes)
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Trauma Education
Learn how trauma impacts your practice and your client results.
Skills You Can Use Immediately
Handle difficult situations with confidence.
Resiliency Instruction
Learn how to avoid burnout and build resiliency.
Imagine looking at your daily schedule and seeing a particular patient (or client, if that's your vernacular) pop up. You groan and think to yourself “Ugh.”
Despite loving your job and helping others, you dread the upcoming appointment. Your chest feels heavy and you realize that you’re holding your breath. There’s tension in your neck. You notice the creeping of uneasiness in your stomach and find yourself already feeling frustrated before even seeing them.
It feels like nothing you have tried is working.
They continue to come in week after week with the same complaints. You feel defeated and incapable...or maybe a little angry at your patient.
What if there was a way to understand what might be interfering with their healing? What if you were able to figure out why their progress was hindered and knew what to do about it? Think about how empowering it would feel for you and your clients. Consider how it might help you build a positive reputation and help bring in business to be known as someone who can help when others have given up.
Bessel Van der Kolk, a leading researcher of trauma in the psychiatric world, explains "traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies; the past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from their selves." In essence, when people have a history of trauma, their bodies can really struggle to calm, much less heal. If you want to help them heal, you have to understand the mechanism of a traumatic response and how to help settle their nervous system.
Now think about those situations when an appointment flips so quickly you struggle to know what's going on. We're talking about the patient that suddenly bursts into tears and starts to verbal vomit...you know, telling you an overwhelming amount of detail about the worst moments of their lives. They don't even seem present. They're lost in the past.
Do you know what to do in those moments?
How about when a client suddenly becomes angry and volatile over something seemingly insignificant? How do you protect yourself while still making the patient feel understood? How do you manage the situation without making it worse?
Trauma Sensitivity Training will help you to understand what is driving these big emotional moments.
Even better, we'll teach you what to do.
We'll help you to have concrete, practical steps to calm these situations down and use them for healing. We'll give you a framework to help you understand when a referral for counseling is needed and how to coordinate your services with a mental health professional for improved outcomes.
What Can Participants Expect To Learn with Trauma Sensitivity Training?
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Understand how trauma gets triggered
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Avoid re-traumatizing folks
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Create a trauma-informed practice
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Calm trauma responses
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Care for yourself in the process
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Avoid burnout
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Create a niche practice that's easy to fill & makes you proud
Who Will Benefit From Trauma Sensitivity Training?
- Physical Therapists
- Massage Therapists
- Chiropractors
- Residential and IOP/PHP Direct Care Providers
- Gynecology clinics & other medical practices
- Dental practices
- Rehab Facilities
- Helpers and healers of all sorts
Katy Harmon, LCSW
Traci W. Pirri, LCSW-S
"[Katy] gave wonderful real life examples and facilitated conversations about patient scenarios."
"[Katy] did a great job explaining trauma responses, "monkey brain/lizard brain" in more simple terms -- didn't have to use psychotherapy jargon for us to understand; also gave us the vocabulary to be able to use with out patients when discussing things like this in our practice."
"I liked how it was a lot of [us] talking, very interactive; I didn't feel like I was just getting lectured to for 2 days"
Hope For The Journey is a counseling group in Texas that helps kids, adults, parents, and partners across Texas to heal and thrive after trauma with counseling that works.
Our mission is to heal trauma, but we recognize that there are many other pathways to healing besides just counseling. So, we also work tirelessly to educate and empower other healing professionals to recognize trauma and know how to safely de-escalate situations when a trauma reaction impacts their work.
Once you know what to do when someone is having a trauma reaction, you can truly create the safety and healing environment your clients or patients need to progress.
Build Confidence
Protect Yourself
Build Business
Developing a specialization as a trauma-sensitive provider will bring you business and keep that business around longer. Word-of-mouth referrals are the best kind to fuel your practice!
This training will empower you to create a unique and healing environment so you can:
- Retain clients
- Create a high demand niche practice
- Connect with an entire community of trauma sensitive professionals
Think of how much time, money, and energy you will save when you have practical tools to help patients make the progress they deserve.
Limited Time & Finances?
Many helping professionals have the desire and passion to help their patients, however they have limited time and finances for training.
We understand.
HFTJ offers hybrid, virtual, and self-pace options for learning as we understand how valuable your time is. We also include consultation after our trainings because we want to make sure this is a training that helps you build your practice in a concrete way. If you're spending money on CCU's, it should benefit you financially as well as professionally.
So, not only will you get the education you need, but also the support afterward to help you implement these techniques into your practice. If you're going to invest time, energy, and funds into this training, we want to make sure it's worthwhile.
Other Services Offered At Hope For The Journey
Hope For The Journey offers more than just training opportunities.
We're a top-notch trauma counseling group for Texas, too!
If you or someone you know has a history of trauma that is interfering with the present, we can help. We offer counseling and sexual assault services at our Round Rock, TX location, our Austin, TX location, and online. Other mental health services include therapy for anxiety, depression, domestic violence, PTSD, anger management, and EMDR. Our team also provides support for family members of all ages with counseling for teens and young adults, children and tweens, men, couples, and parents/partners. Contact us to learn more about our team and community involvement today!
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