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When Families Live in Survival Mode, Therapists Need More Than Theory

If you're a counselor, supervisor, or healthcare professional supporting these families, you may have asked yourself:

How can I help this parent who’s holding so much—without retraumatizing them?
How do I respond when medical decisions intertwine with guilt, grief, or fear?
Am I missing something about how medical trauma really shows up in therapy?

Through consultation and training, I help counselors and health professionals:

Understand how medical trauma uniquely affects caregivers
Learn what to look for beyond the “presenting issue”
Gain language and tools for discussing loss, uncertainty, and nervous system overload
Address faith, meaning-making, and trauma in integrated, ethical ways
Confidently support clients whose trauma is still happening

I’m here to support you in answering those questions—so you can feel more confident, more informed, and more compassionate in your care.

Working with families of medically complex children means entering a world shaped by chronic stress, ambiguous grief, and medical trauma—a world where fear, exhaustion, and hope exist side by side.

A Bridge Between Clinical Knowledge and Lived Experience

I bring a rare combination of expertise as a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC Supervisor, trauma specialist, and the mother of a medically complex child.

This combination allows me to help other professionals understand not just the theory behind trauma-informed care, but the real-life, moment-by-moment experience of long-term caregiving, grief, and emotional survival.

That dual perspective gives me a unique lens into the unspoken realities these families live with:

The constant toggling between fight, flight, and freeze
The deep emotional labor of caregiving
The invisible layers of loss and resilience
The impact on marriages, siblings, faith, and identity

These families often operate in a state of chronic activation—and it’s easy to miss the layers of trauma, loss, disconnection, and exhaustion they carry.

Through consultation, I help providers develop:

A unique treatment approach to process ongoing trauma and cope with ongoing grief
Deeper awareness of medical trauma dynamics
Tools for attuned, regulated therapeutic presence
Strategies that integrate both clinical direction and emotional permission

In my consultation work, I help other professionals see what’s often hidden—so they can show up with attunement, language, and strategies that truly support healing.

Why This Matters

Medical trauma is often misunderstood—and too often missed.
Families living with long-term medical complexity need providers who can hold the nuance, grief, dysregulation, and love of their experience. Providers who understand the ongoing nature of these realities.

Through clinical consultation, I help professionals learn how to:

Work with trauma and grief as interwoven processes
Understand survival-based emotional patterns
Identify meaningful goals that honor both the pain and the hope
Create a sense of safety, dignity, and momentum in therapy

When we can map the nervous system, honor the grief, and name the trauma—we give our clients a path forward that’s both compassionate and clear.

What I Offer?

I offer consultation and collaboration to:

Licensed counselors and mental health clinicians in any U.S. state
LPC Associates seeking supervision in South Carolina
Interdisciplinary care teams and school or hospital staff
Medical providers, educators, and case managers seeking trauma-informed insight on how to best support these families.

You don’t have to carry these cases alone. Whether you’re a therapist, educator, or care team leader, I’m here to offer grounded, reflective support so you can care well—for your clients and for yourself.

✅ Consultation available to Counselors and Other Health Providers nationwide via secure video
✅ Custom training and education for organizations
✅ LPC supervision for SC-based LPC Associates

A Framework for Working with Grief and Trauma—Simultaneously

In response to the needs I saw in my own clients—and my own parenting—I developed a clinical framework and set of tools designed specifically for this population.

A Dual-Lens Model: Grief to Grow With & Trauma to Heal

This model helps clinicians:

Understand Medical Trauma and the reality of ongoing threat (Enduring Somatic Threat)
Identify trauma elements to process (e.g., hospital events, helplessness, systemic invalidation)
Recognize grief elements to grow with (e.g., ambiguous loss, lost dreams, shifting identities)
Understand how both impact regulation, identity, relationships, and therapeutic progress

This dual-lens approach helps clinicians avoid oversimplifying complex cases and instead work with the full story.

Treatment Planning Tools That Bring Clarity to Complexity

I’ve also developed practical mapping tools that guide clinicians to:

Chart the layers of a client’s experience—including trauma, grief, resilience, identity, and systems impact
Identify clinical entry points without overlooking the broader context
Create integrated treatment plans that reflect both survival needs and emotional growth

These tools are accessible, adaptable, and designed to help you hold space for both suffering and strength in the same room.

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Healing the heart. Strengthening the soul. Courage for life.

When Families Live in Survival Mode, Therapists Need More Than Theory

Want to Learn More?

A Bridge Between Clinical Knowledge and Lived Experience

Why This Matters

What I Offer?

A Framework for Working with Grief and Trauma—Simultaneously

A Dual-Lens Model: Grief to Grow With & Trauma to Heal

Treatment Planning Tools That Bring Clarity to Complexity

Healing the heart. Strengthening the soul. Courage for life.

When Families Live in Survival Mode, Therapists Need More Than Theory

Want to Learn More?

A Bridge Between Clinical Knowledge and Lived Experience

Why This Matters

What I Offer?

A Framework for Working with Grief and Trauma—Simultaneously

A Dual-Lens Model: Grief to Grow With & Trauma to Heal

Treatment Planning Tools That Bring Clarity to Complexity

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