Taking the Pressure Off:
Adding a Trauma Coach to Your Therapy Practice
There has been a recent explosion in demand for mental health care services. Many of us just cannot keep up. Returning the backlog of calls from those you know you will not be able to absorb into your practice can be daunting, and sometimes not even possible. In addition to new clients requesting services, established clients have needed more support due to recent existential stressors. Hence this webinar on "Taking the Pressure Off: Adding a Trauma Coach to Your Therapy Practice"
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Friday December 2nd, 12 pm-1 pm PST
It's been tough.
To many mental health care providers, saying "I can't help you" goes against the grain of our values. And yet, there aren't enough of us to go around. Mental health care delivery is in transition with online platforms shifting how clients can engage with their providers. These come with pros and cons, of course.
The combination of overwhelming demand and an embrace of novel delivery approaches means this is the right time to evaluate and make change to the way we do things.
In an effort to expand our capacity to serve those in need, introducing coaches as technical assistants in your therapy practice is one way to take the pressure off you or your team while simultaneously expanding supports.
Almost every other type of medical care includes technicians in their practices either as medical assistants, certified nursing assistants and dental assistants. Veterinarians have assistants.
There are parts of our jobs that other people can do that would be rewarding to them.
Trauma coaching is an innovation that has the potential to shift our approach to our work while increasing support both for ourselves and our clients.
This course was designed to identify the components of the work that can be delegated while keeping you in line with your ethics.
Register nowThe training objectives of this course include:
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Participants will be able to differentiate coaching from therapy.
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Participants will be able to identify aspects of their job that can be delegated to coaches.
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Participants will be able to describe additional supports coaches can offer that therapists are unable to.
Meet Athena
The Orenda Project:
Our Story
Athena has been working in social services for over 30 years, with the past 17 being dedicated to trauma and related conditions. She founded Integrative Trauma Treatment Center (ITTC) in 2012, which is an outpatient mental health care clinic that provides care for trauma and dissociative disorders. She provides training and consultation for providers who work with these populations and is currently enrolled in a doctoral program in pursuit of her Doctor of Psychology (PsyD). Athena was the developer and presenter of the Multicultural Trauma Training (MTT) in Kigali, Rwanda, which was a platform for mental health care providers to learn about trauma alongside colleagues from the region. Her work locally and internationally has illuminated the scarcity of accessible, quality, mental health supports on a global scale. The Orenda Project was founded as an effort to expand global capacity to provide informed-support to survivors of trauma. The term “Orenda” originated with the Iroquois – it is defined as a magical, mystical characteristic unique to each individual that allows us to influence internal or external change in the face of challenge.
