Professional Education for Providers

Case Consult Group for Working with Developmental Trauma

We are pleased to announce our consult group for therapists who work with developmental trauma. This focus of each group will form around your questions and case consultation. The cost is $45 per session.

Session registration can be found here —
sign up today and invite your colleagues! 

Would you like to increase your skills and benefit from consultation in treating adults with developmental trauma?

This consult group offers therapists, at any level of experience, the opportunity to receive consultation and support in working with adults who were sexually abused as children or teens or with others who are experiencing C-PTSD.

This group is led by experienced Roanoke Park Counseling therapists.

When: The group will meet the 3rd Friday of every month, from 11:30 am - 1 pm. Upcoming meetings are scheduled for: April 19, May 17, and June 21, 2024
Where: On-line (you'll receive a video link with registration)
Who: Open to any associate or fully licensed therapist in WA state
Cost: $45/meeting (follow the link above)

For more information and registration details, contact: Amanda Franklin. 

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PAST EVENTS: 
IFS With Childhood Sexual Abuse: Bringing Compassion, Connection and Courage to our Traumatized Experiences
November 16, 2022
Presented by: Megan Fisher, LMHC
Summary: Internal Family Systems therapy is an experiential therapy, allowing individuals to feel their way through their healing journey and bring deep compassion and connection to their most vulnerable and traumatized memories. In this presentation Megan will creatively engage the audience with various somatic focusing and mindfulness exercises to discover the diversity of our internal landscape and explore nervous system regulation. We will discuss the IFS model and understand its efficacy in working with the confusing array of symptoms that arise out of childhood sexual abuse and developmental trauma.  

Trauma in the field of mental health over the last several years has presented clinicians with the opportunity to examine how Adverse Childhood Experiences and other complex trauma can negatively impact the health and wellness of the people they serve. Unfortunately, the ACE study does not explicitly examine how racially based trauma experiences impact specific groups. Indeed, race still matters. Beyond adverse childhood experiences, African Americans, Latinx, and Native Americans continue to navigate a world where they are viewed negatively, and this inarguable reality certainly has a measurable mental health effect. Clinicians must consider the impact and legacy of slavery, colonization, and immigration on the overall wellbeing of these groups. Therefore, providers are advised to examine the trauma experiences of these populations through a racial lens if they are to provide culturally competent services.

In this virtual workshop we will come to:

• Understand the impact of racism on the health and wellness of African Americans, Latinx, and Native Americans.
• Develop a deeper understanding of how the exclusion of identifying and measuring racially based trauma affects the efficacy of the original ACE study.
• Offer the participants an opportunity to deepen their awareness and understanding of racism and their commitment to social justice.

Roy's presentation provides general training, assessment, treatment and supervision guidelines related to expanding how clinicians consider trauma and the lived experiences of many people of color.