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Professional Trainings

My education, training, supervision, teaching, research, and clinical experiences have fostered my enthusiasm and commitment to bringing high-quality, research-based, dynamic psychoeducational trainings to students, employers and employees, and anyone in the helping professions.

Check out my upcoming live events, self-paced online courses, and current training topics. Or send me a request (below) to create a personalized presentation for your team!

Mental health providers: Email me if you want to be included in my listserv to be notified of upcoming professional development workshops, book clubs, and more!

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Upcoming LIVE Trainings!

The Lenses We Wear: Addressing Felt Sense Beliefs Through
Memory Reconsolidation Techniques

This clinical training explores the profound impact of traumatic experiences on the brain, body, and belief systems. Participants will dive into the neurobiology of the emotional brain, examining how traumatic memories are formed, stored, and reactivated to create deeply ingrained, mistaken "felt sense" beliefs. Participants will learn the practical yet transformative steps of memory reconsolidation to help clients update these beliefs and memories so they no longer trigger high emotional reactivity and finally feel resolved. This training includes real-world clinical examples and therapeutic techniques, and offers and an interactive opportunity to directly apply the memory reconsolidation steps to your practice, so you can walk away with increased confidence for how to help clients achieve lasting transformational change.

If you have been trained in a memory reconsolidation approach but need a refresher – or simply want to advance your trauma therapy skills – this training’s for you!

DATE: Friday, August 7, 2026

TIME: 10am - 12pm Central

INVESTMENT: $29

2.0 CE hours
(applications pending with MN Boards for
SW, LPC/LPCC, BBHT, and Psychology)

REGISTRATION OPENS SOON! Email me to be notified!

Applying a Trauma-Informed Lens to Your Therapeutic Approach

Being trauma-informed is essential to effective practice in the helping professions. This training is designed to provide you with the knowledge, awareness, and practical skills to integrate trauma-informed principles into your existing clinical framework. Participants will learn how to define trauma and recognize the wide range of traumatic experiences, understand the body’s nervous system and its threat response, and explore how trauma affects brain function and memory over time. You’ll gain insight into the core concepts and principles of trauma-informed care and learn how to apply them to enhance your current work. This training will also cover how to create a trauma-sensitive therapeutic environment and use the stages of trauma recovery to assess and support clients at different points in their healing journey. Drawing from leading evidence-based therapies, this session offers tangible interventions that you can implement immediately. Finally, we’ll explore the impact of working with trauma, including compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma, and discuss strategies to help you sustain your own well-being while doing this important work.

Multiple ways to attend!

LIVE Virtual: June 16, 2026: https://ceyouplus.org/workshops/Applyinga2/view
LIVE Virtual June 25, 2026: https://ahn.mnsu.edu/about/upcoming-events/applying-a-trauma-informed-lens-to-your-therapy-approach-training/
SELF-PACED: Click this link to register and get lifetime access through Udemy.com.
Also available by request.

Self-Paced Online Courses

From Awareness to Action: The Ethics of Trauma-Informed Care

Trauma is ubiquitous, with far-reaching negative impacts on individuals and communities. Mental health providers need to be competent in bringing a trauma-informed ethical decision-making framework into their clinical practice, agencies, and systems, in order to actively counter the effects of trauma while promoting healing, resilience, and recovery. This foundational training offers clinicians a comprehensive introduction to the core tenets of trauma-informed care (TIC), while integrating the ethical principles guiding our profession, and highlighting cultural awareness and cultural humility as essential cornerstones of our work. Professional challenges like burnout, vicarious trauma, and boundaries will be examined through an ethical, trauma-informed lens, and practical strategies for how to mitigate such challenges will be addressed. In addition to didactic and reflective elements, the TIC principles and ethical codes of conduct will be brought to life through thought-provoking case scenarios - so participants can move from awareness to application to action.

If you're a mental health professional in Minnesota, North Dakota, and Wisconsin - check out this training on the ethics of trauma-informed care.

Access the self-paced, pre-recorded version here REGISTER.
Available through December 2026.

Only $39 for 3 ethics and cultural competency CEUs!

Preventing Burnout with Self-Compassion:
Practical Strategies for Helping Professionals

We’re living and working through incredibly stressful times and need to find sustainable ways to help us address feelings of burnout - or prevent it from happening in the first place. This interactive and experiential training includes both psychoeducational information and self-reflective practice for anyone in the helping profession who might be facing burnout/compassion fatigue. You will learn the definitions and warning signs of burnout, identify the core concepts of self-compassion, and assess your current levels of burnout and self-compassion. This training is infused with mindfulness, meditation, and self-compassion exercises, so you can feel the benefits in the moment and take with you to begin incorporating into your daily life!

SELF-PACED: Register here to get lifetime access through Udemy.com.
Also available by request.

Additional Topics

COMING SOON:
A Port in the Storm: Real Self-Care as a Life Raft for Resilient Practitioners

The work of mental health professionals is inherently demanding, and increasing levels of emotional exhaustion, diminished empathy, and professional dissatisfaction may signal burnout or compassion fatigue. Drawing on the work of Dr. Thomas Skovholt and Dr. Pooja Lakshmin, this presentation will offer practical, realistic guidance for assessing and intentionally addressing professional burnout through the lens of practitioner resilience and the principles of “real self-care”. Attendees will leave with strategies that support resilience, foster professional vitality, and promote long-term professional well-being.

Victim Survivor Thriver: Therapeutic Interventions for Healing the Ripple Effect of
Sexual Violence in Young Adults

Sexual violence is a painful traumatic event that affects young adults at alarming rates. The trauma of sexual violence is like a rock thrown into calm waters – causing vast ripple effects to an individual’s physical, emotional, psychological, and interpersonal life. However, healing and recovery is the norm following trauma exposure, and clinicians wield the knowledge, power, and skills to help victims and survivors move toward healing. In this training, participants will learn the scope of the problem of sexual violence among adolescents, college students, and young adults, and examine the common symptoms, consequences, and aftereffects of these traumatic events. This training will illuminate how recovery and healing from sexual assault trauma is a multi-faceted, multi-stage process that requires a holistic, trauma-informed, and evidence-based framework. Participants will be able to identify, learn, and apply multimodal therapeutic interventions - including an opportunity to practice with a clinical tool co-developed by the presenter - that they can immediately begin integrating into their clinical work.

Becoming Trauma-Informed: How to Respond to Others in Distress

This introductory training is for schools, businesses, universities, and other industry professionals who wish to learn and apply the central tenets of a trauma-informed approach to their professional roles. Being trauma-informed is essential to establishing strong working relationships with supervisees, colleagues, and leaders, and promoting a healthy workplace. In this interactive session tailored to your team, you will learn about trauma and how its consequences might manifest in the work environment, identify healthy leadership qualities, and learn ways to respond effectively and empathically. Learn how to prevent burnout by implementing boundaries and self-care, and improve your confidence as a trauma-informed supervisor and/or employee.

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
-Phil Collins

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