My Passion for Vulnerability and Resilience
HOW ALL STARTED >>
I’m a Certified Professional Coach (Life Coach) that specializes in Resilience and from this point on I felt in love with how as human beings, we have the capability to spring our strength and build character under tough circumstances. That lead me to the quest of healing tools and modalities that can transform other lives and keep enriching mine. As a Certified International Mentor / Mentor Sherpa I can share my lived experiences and the knowledge gained to help others shorten their learning curve.
WHERE I’M AT >>
My passion for emotional wellness and the commitment to my personal trauma healing, took me to my coaching specialization as a Trauma Trained Professional. Now in the role of a Certified Trauma Recovery Coach Supervisor (CTRC-S) alongside the International Association of Trauma Recovery Coaching, I can help individuals who sufferer the aftereffects of Developmental Trauma or Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (cPTSD). My hope is they can learn to manage their triggers to live a healthier life minimizing some of the symptoms of cPTSD like, Toxic Shame, Sefl-Abandoment, Nervous System Dysregulation, Emotional and Psychological Abuse. As part of the trauma specialization, I encourage souls recover from the Emotional Burden of Financial Trauma through the Financial Social Worker Educator certification in The Center For Financial Social Worker CFFSW.
What are my specialties?
I see the world through a Trauma Informed Care (TIC) lenses and based all my practices on the the four operational goals and six principles of Trauma-Informed Care that have been set forth by the United States Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Looking through TIC lenses have a perspective and sensitivity around the impact of trauma on others and myself, understanding and providing tools to support others and self during stressful times; as well as identifying and supporting the organization or systems change needed to reduce re-traumatization.
My specialties are:
Trauma Informed Care
Trauma Informed Care has Four Key Operational Goals:
- Realizes widespread impact of trauma and Realizes understands potential paths for recovery.
- Recognizes signs and symptoms of trauma in clients, Recognizes families, staff, and others involved with the system.
- Responds by fully integrating knowledge about trauma Responds into policies, procedures, and practices.
- Resists – Seeks to actively Resist re-traumatization.
Six Principles to Meet the Operational Goals:
- Safety – Many survivors of trauma live in unsafe situations, others deal with suicidal thoughts, urges to self-harm and addictions that threaten their physical health. Trauma-informed care focuses on a client’s safety first and foremost and maintains that safety over the course of treatment and/or interactions with their client.
- Trustworthiness & Transparency – Many survivors of trauma, especially trauma within interpersonal relationships such as child abuse or domestic violence, have endured years of emotional manipulation and grooming. They have difficulties trusting and are highly sensitive to interactions that have the faintest whiff of deception and coercion. Trauma-informed care does not put down clients with difficulties trusting but understand it’s a consequence of their trauma. Instead, they are very transparent with their policies and actions, working to gain their client’s trust.
- Peer Support – Trauma-informed care recognizes and utilizes the power of peer support. Many individuals with PTSD feel isolated and alone. They often feel misunderstood. At times, they feel like they’re the only one in the world who feels and thinks the way that they do. The way to unlock each of those negative feelings is through peer support. When survivors of trauma come together there is a powerful sense of community. Survivors know they aren’t alone and that there are others who are going through what they are. They feel an incredible amount of support, and lack of judgment, through peer interactions.
- Collaboration & Mutuality – Trauma-informed care utilizes a team approach to treating and interacting survivors. The client’s needs are evaluated holistically. Rarely does one form of treatment resolve PTSD. Clients often need a collaboration of methods, such as talk therapy, EMDR and art therapy. Just as importantly, trauma-informed systems recognize the survivor as a valid and valuable member of their own treatment team. When survivor’s wishes and experience are treated as an afterthought it takes them back to their trauma, which by its very nature is something they powerless against.
- Empowerment, Voice & Choice – Trauma-informed care recognizes that survivors had very little voice or control during their trauma. Children couldn’t speak up against a parent abusing them. Spouses couldn’t defend themselves against a violent husband or wife. Soldiers could not predict when the next Improvised Explosive Device was going to be buried in the roadway ahead of them. Trauma strips away a survivor’s belief that they are powerful. Appropriate treatment restores their ability to choose, values their voice and empowers them to build a life where they exercise the power and control over themselves.
- Cultural, Historical, and Gender Issues – Trauma-informed care is not a cookie cutter approach. It recognizes that different cultures, genders and personal histories color each survivors experience. It actively seeks to understand a survivor’s experience and incorporate their individual needs into treatment.