Safety, Hope, & Healing
Counseling & Consulting
Organizations:
Consultation, Supervision,
Support & Training
Consultation, supervision, staff support, and training are available on a range of topics related to trauma-informed care, creating safe and supportive environments, trauma, suicide, addiction, and the intersections between these issues for the people served, the staff providing the services, and the organization overall.
Consultation
Safety, Hope, & Healing regularly consults with organizations, primarily homeless and substance use treatment services, using a lens of trauma-informed care both about policies and procedures as well as about individual clients/situations.
Examples of consultation topics include:
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Suicide prevention and postvention policies and plans
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Policies related to termination of services
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Creating safe and supportive environments for staff
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De-Escalation policies
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Critical incident response plans
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Consultation on specific cases is also available. Often providers may feel concerned or stuck in their work with someone who has experienced trauma or who is at risk for suicide or other harm.
For nearly a decade, I have been providing consultation to providers on how to support the people with whom they are working.
I consult regularly with individual providers, treatment teams, organizations, and learning collaboratives in thinking through specific strategies and concepts and how to incorporate principles of creating trauma-informed and safe and supportive approaches and environments into their work overall.
Supervision
Trauma-informed supervision is highly beneficial for all direct service providers working with trauma, substance use, or suicide, whether they are clinicians or not. It has been identified as a primary recommendation for making the work sustainable by the Bureau of Substance and Addiction Services (BSAS).
I have been providing trauma-informed supervision for organizations and individual providers for many years. I provide clinical supervision to human service workers working in homeless services, substance use prevention and treatment, and peer support programs, among others.
Supervision can be provided both individually and in groups.
Supervision focuses on understanding the underpinnings of concerns arising with people served, strategies to best support them, as well as supporting the providers themselves to mitigate the impact of the trauma they are exposed to in the work.
Staff Support
Safety, Hope, & Healing Counseling & Consulting provides support for agencies whose staff are regularly exposed to intense stressors or potentially traumatic experiences in the course of their work - whether through events that occur regularly in the workplace or through hearing the trauma stories of the people with whom they are working.
Agencies and programs may be assigned an “embedded” mental health professional who has expertise in acute trauma, sudden or violent death, and traumatic grief as well as workplace overwhelm and toxic stress. The embedded clinician can meet with staff individually or in groups to provide stabilization and bridging support related to the ways that staff are impacted by the work.
Trainings
Trainings are available on a range of topics related to trauma, trauma-informed care, traumatic loss, suicide, substance use, and the intersections between these issues.
Current trainings include:
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To Feel SAPhE: Creating Trauma-Informed Environments and Interactions
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Calming the TIDE: Trauma-Informed De-Escalation
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Trauma-Informed Staff Support and Supervision
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Intersections of Trauma, Suicide, and Addiction
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Intersections of Suicide and Opioid Use: A Gatekeeper Training
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Unhealthy Opioid Use and Suicide Prevention
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Bridging the Streams of Addiction, Suicide, & Trauma
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Trauma-Informed Suicide Prevention
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Working with Chronically Suicidal Clients
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Traumatic Grief
If you are interested in other trainings related to trauma, suicide, addiction or the intersections between these issues, please contact me.
"Wow! I haven't received that much good feedback in regard to a Monday morning training in a very long time. It was awesome. Very informative and relevant to what we do here. So many colleagues have commented on Joanna as well, we want her back lol. We would love to schedule a follow up training at some point with her to deliver more information to our staff”
- Organizational Training Client
Organizational & School Consultation on Trauma, Suicide, and Crisis Response
Safety, Hope, and Healing provides consultation on a range of topics related to: trauma, trauma-informed practice and supervision; suicide prevention, intervention, postvention; and crisis or critical incident response.
Consultation can focus on working with organizations to make their programs, practices and policies more trauma-informed overall or can focus on a specific policy or practice.
Many organizations find that a baseline training on relevant concepts truly comes together for them after subsequent consultation sessions, when they are able to internalize the concepts and see how they apply specifically to the work that they are doing.
In addition, after a crisis or a loss occurs, providers often benefit from consulting with an expert to think through all of the components of the response and ways of supporting organizational staff as well as the people served.
Please contact me with any questions about consultation.
