Trauma Informed Consulting, Teaching and Training for your business, team and organization

build trauma sensitive policies and best practices that serve your customers, your clients and your business

Trauma informed care is for everyone.

All clients and customers and all businesses can benefit. Even if you don’t work directly with trauma, a trauma sensitive approach honors your client or customer’s lived experience while staying within your scope of practice.

You don't need to over-hold or bend your boundaries.

You don’t need to do it all.

You do need to know a bit about trauma informed approaches to integrate them.

And you might need support to build trauma sensitive skills.

I can help.

Meet your Trauma Informed Trainer

Hi, I’m Jess (she/they) and you definitely don’t have to trust me!

It would be super un-trauma-informed of me to demand that off the bat, but we’ll delve into that if we work together. I’m a licensed massage therapist, somatic and SSP practitioner and trauma informed educator and mentor for healers. I draw from my lived experience as a survivor and my extensive trauma informed studies. I’m a forever student of the nervous system, neuroscience, healing justice and somatic practice.

I love getting nerdy about the nervous system, and it’s super important to me to hold and co-create a trauma informed space for my students and clients. You, your nervous system and your brain can all be held here.

You can expect clear communication (capricorn sun, mercury and more), gentleness (I know talking about trauma informed care can bring things up), laughter and a few topical and tender tangents. I’d be honored to hold and share space with you. It’s a joy to learn and unlearn together.

  • Trauma informed guidance to foster confidence and competence in your trauma sensitive practice

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Group Trainings

Equip your staff with trauma informed practices for customer and client facing care. Learn best trauma sensitive practices and pitfalls to avoid. Live and virtual training options are available.

Working together

Guest Teaching

Bring me in to your retreat, in-service, or conference to hold a trauma sensitive space for folks to learn trauma informed care skills, somatic coping tools, and ethical marketing and business practices.

Individual Mentorship

From crafting staff handbooks and best practices and policies, to tricky client situations and marketing needs, I can help with the places you feel stuck.

Content Areas and Trainings include:

  • Trauma Informed Foundations

  • Trauma Informed Language

  • Beginning Magic: Client Centered Trauma Informed Intake Processes

  • Hand in Hand: Specificity, Scope of Practice and Inclusion

  • Trauma Informed Pricing, Marketing and Business Practices

  • It’s Not All Good: the Basics of Spiritual Bypassing

  • Nervous System Centered Care Practices

  • Somatic Essentials: Self Care for Sustained Practice and Less Burnout

Folks I’ve worked with have:

➝ Revised program and client policies to better express their boundaries and honor their time, energy and expectations.

➝ Cultivated clarity on who they feel best equipped to serve, and what to do when they encounter a potential client or customer falls outside of that scope.

➝ Adapted trauma sensitive approaches to existing business practices without reinventing the wheel or disregarding their unique approach.

➝ Steered away from manipulative marketing of the past by embracing a more trauma informed approach to websites, sales pages and launches.

➝ Discovered supportive coping strategies and somatic resiliency practices to sustain their work and nourish their own nervous system, leading to increased co-regulation and less burnout, compassion fatigue, and post-client crashes.

➝ In tune with their body and nervous system’s yeses and nos.

➝ More aware of their needs and able to act on them and honor them

➝ Feeling big feelings without the usual overwhelm that accompanies emotion

➝ Aware of hunger cues and shifting their relationship around food and nourishment

➝ Expanding their capacity for excitement, discomfort and growth (a.k.a. expanding their comfort zone)

➝ Engaging in connection, creativity and relationships with more ease

➝ Resting rather than shutting down and numbing out

  • “I have been a facilitator for years but it wasn’t until recently that I realized some of the terminology and the ways I was approaching things were getting under my own skin. If my job is to provide a safe and supportive space for others I knew I had to educate myself. I was absolutely dumbfounded at how simple and transformative the practices within the program were.”

    Sara, Breathworker & Trauma Informed Student

  • "The SSP experience has been tender and open; a gentle space to land each week and spend intentional time tending to my nervous system. I relax and my breath deepens as I arrive into this unique space with an open invitation to find the experience I need that day with the music and the group, but no expectation to do so in a specific way."

    SSP Client

  • "My session with Jess was such a beautiful catalyst to further healing within myself: she gently supported me in realizing that part of being a trauma-informed massage therapist is creating the conditions where I, too, can feel safer and more present. This was just one of several lightbulb moments in our consultation, which really helped me get clarity on how I want to grow in my trauma-informed practices."

    Mel Meder, Massage Therapist

  • “Part of what I loved about the SSP was Jess’s invitation to show up exactly as we were. Just before SSP began, I experienced some trauma in a group setting and felt hesitant about the group dynamic of this process. I was able to show up completely nonverbal and in tears the first day, and felt warmth and welcomed in this experience."

    SSP Client, 1 of 2

  • "As the weeks progressed, I was able to connect outward more to other members of the group as my nervous system allowed, and even initiated conversations and cracked some jokes! The SSP was healing on multiple levels for me, and this group dynamic was just one slice of the pie.”

    SSP Client, 2/2

  • “I've already noticed that the way that I'm speaking with and writing to clients is indeed starting to shift for the better. And I feel good knowing that I have a solid toolkit for this work that I can continue to use as I grow my practice.”

    Olivia LaBarre, Animal Communicator & Reiki Practitioner

  • “The guide is beautifully presented, easy to follow and has helped me personally and in my role as a youth worker. It has helped me to recognize thoughts and feelings on a much deeper level.”

    Amanda T. on the Spiritual Bypassing Guide, It’s Not All Good

  • “It has helped me to gain a deeper understanding of spiritual bypassing and how to hold a safer container of space for others in my work.”

    Samantha G.

Curious about working together?

Apply and book a connection call to explore how I might be able to support you!