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Trauma Informed Practice for Mental Health Professionals Working with Children and Adolescents

2024 Dates to Be Announced Soon

Presenters’ Bios

C.J. Quick, LPCC-S, LMFT, RPT-S holds a Masters of Arts in Education with emphasis in Professional Counseling and Marriage and Family Therapy.  She has practiced as a mental health therapist for over 14 years and currently co-owns a private practice in Elizabethtown, Kentucky that specializes in working with children and families.  Ms. Quick is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor-Supervisor, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and a Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor.  She specializes in working with children who have experienced trauma, children who have attachment concerns, and with families.  She has worked with at risk children including over two years full time experience at a Children’s Crisis Unit working with children at risk of harming themselves or others.  She has continued to work closely with community partners and schools to assess at risk children and adolescents and help coordinate care.  Ms. Quick is also an autonomously licensed Batterer’s Intervention Provider who has worked extensively with perpetrators and victims of domestic violence as well as children who have been exposed to violence.

Ms. Quick presents locally and throughout the state on a multitude of child mental health topics including but not limited to:  Early Childhood Mental Health, the Effects of Trauma on Brain Development, and Trauma Informed Education.  They also provides Kentucky board approved trainings for mental health professionals on Understanding and Treating Suicide, Domestic Violence, and Laws and Ethics.

Program Description

This course will help mental health professionals who work with children and adolescents to be trauma informed in their practice—to help them better recognize, intervene, and provide services in a trauma informed manner.

We will review how trauma effects development including brain development and how this presents both emotionally and behaviorally. We will further discuss how it effects the family system as well as external systems in which the child is part.

We will discuss trauma from a holistic perspective and discuss how different traumatic experiences including complex trauma effect children.  We will then help participants to better understand how to be trauma informed in their interactions with their clients to ensure that clients are provided the best possible services.  We will spend time discussing how to be trauma informed in the assessment process (including the differential diagnosis process), the treatment process, and in helping your client get the best trauma informed interactions outside of your office—at home, in schools, and in other systems in which they may be involved.

Specific assessment and treatment strategies will be discussed as well as how you can set up your office and interactions to be more trauma sensitive.

Objectives…Participants will

  1. identify Trauma including complex trauma, toxic stress, and abuse
  2. describe how trauma influence child development including brain development
  3. discuss how trauma influences emotional and behavioral functioning
  4. explain how to be trauma informed in assessment and diagnosis
  5. identify how to be trauma informed in treatment planning and providing therapeutic services
  6. discuss being more trauma informed in all interactions and to help others to do the same in family systems and other systems where clients may be involved
  • Dates: 2024 Dates to Be Announced Soon
  • Location: Live Webinar Via Zoom
  • Time: The training will run from 9:00 AM EST until 4:00 PM EST (There will be a 1 hour break for lunch)
  • Cost: $100.00
  • Cancellation Policy can be viewed here.
  • Continuing Education:
    • Brighter Futures Counseling is an Approved Sponsor by the Kentucky Board of Licensure for Marriage and Family Therapists (Approved 02/17/2022).
    • Brighter Futures Counseling is an approved sponsor with The Kentucky Board of Social Work (Approval number KBSWSP 202306).
    • Continuing Education pending with the Kentucky Board of Professional Counseling.
    • Continuing Education pending with the Kentucky Board of Examiners of Psychology