Mental Health Consultation

Consultation For Licensed Therapists

CONSULTATION FOR LICENSED THERAPISTS

You’re licensed and want to continue engaging in lifelong learning, unlearning, and relearning.

I also offer supervision to associate clinicians.

You’re seeking consultation to:

Review challenging client cases as it relates to trauma, couples, multicultural issues
Start private practice in Washington State
Prevent burn out and/or address burn out, compassion fatigue, and/or secondary trauma
Process countertransference
Get another perspective and revitalize your passion for your work
For professional growth and development

Consultation with me is practical and supportive and can include:

Role plays
Reviewing videos or audio clips
Education on theory and skills
Discussing journal articles or book chapters
Ethics
Decolonizing mental health
Wellness, self care, and community care
Cultivating self compassion
Managing our inner critic and perfectionist
Ways to incorporate relational, somatic, and experiential therapies (AEDP, IFS, EFT, SE)

I also offer the following:

For organizations, non profits, colleges, schools, and group practices

Secondary trauma, vicarious trauma; caring for self while caring for others; longevity of career and preventing burn out

Somatic practices and ways to listen to your body
Bottom up trauma work vs. top down trauma work
Processing client’s data, information, and traumas without “taking on” their trauma
Outlining the dangers of empathy and types of empathy (cognitive, affective)
Beyond trauma informed care to resilience informed care (“What happened to you?” vs. “How did you get through that?”)
Beyond self care to community care
Identifying your values and strengths: who and what matters most to you

Working with complex trauma and PTSD; assessment, interventions, processing, reflection

Stages and phases of trauma therapy
Understand how experience shapes the brain, impacts of trauma on the brain (particularly the developing brain) and the physiology of trauma
Attuning to attachment issues
Shame in the therapy room
Strength based work, empowerment, and symptoms as adaptive and ways of survival
Racial trauma
Sexual violence

Of course.
Even though I’ve been practicing independently for the last few years, I still have a primary consultant I speak with and also have a group of peers I consult with based on their respective specialties and areas of experience/skill/knowledge.
I also regularly engage in continuing education every year to keep up to date with evidence based practices to help my clients and sustain my work.
Yes, I think especially if you work in private practice, it’s crucial to set up our own support system such as colleagues, peers, consultants, teachers, supervisors, etc. to help us check our work.
When we work for agencies such as hospitals or schools, there is usually support built in in some way such as a weekly grand round course, case consultation, supervision, etc.

Read through my website and watch my videos to learn more about me, my services, and if we might be a good fit.