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Trauma‑Informed Workshops & Trainings

Below are my current training offerings. Looking for something more specific? Custom trainings and workshops are developed in partnership with your organization to align with your goals, audience, and real‑world challenges.

Human Trafficking Foundations & Intermediate
(HT 101 & HT 102)

This is a two‑part workshop series designed to build a strong, trauma‑informed understanding of human trafficking and deepen participants’ capacity to identify and respond effectively. HT 101 introduces core concepts, including definitions, myths and misconceptions, forms of trafficking, risk factors, and indicators, with an emphasis on victim-centered and survivor-informed approaches. HT 102 expands on this foundation by exploring more complex dynamics like coercion, control, identity disturbance, intersectionality, system involvement, barriers to disclosure, and service access. Together, these workshops emphasize practical application across child‑serving and adult systems, helping participants move beyond awareness to meaningful, coordinated response. Grounded in trauma-responsive, culturally aware, and strengths-based practice, the series equips professionals to recognize trafficking and engage safely and ethically while supporting pathways to protection, stabilization, and long-term healing.

Understanding Poly‑Victimization in CSEC and Trauma‑Impacted Youth

This training will deepen professionals’ understanding of how multiple, overlapping forms of harm—such as abuse, neglect, exploitation, violence, and system involvement—compound trauma and shape youth behavior, coping, and engagement. Participants explore how poly‑victimization increases vulnerability to CSEC and contributes to complex trauma responses that are often misunderstood or misinterpreted across systems. Grounded in trauma‑responsive and survivor‑informed practice, this training examines how repeated and intersecting victimization impacts regulation, trust, identity, and decision‑making. Participants learn to recognize patterns of poly‑victimization, avoid single‑incident or deficit‑based thinking, and respond with coordinated, holistic supports. The training emphasizes cross‑system collaboration and strategies that promote safety, stability, and long‑term healing rather than fragmented or punitive responses.

Beyond Exploitation: Grief Through a Trauma Lens in CSEC and Trauma‑Impacted Youth

This centers grief as a critical, yet often overlooked, component of complex trauma. For youth impacted by CSEC and chronic adversity, loss extends far beyond the loss of people—it includes the loss of safety, trust, identity, relationships, education, health, and community. When these grief responses are misunderstood as defiance, ambivalence, or manipulation, system responses can unintentionally deepen harm. This training reframes grief through a trauma‑informed and culturally responsive lens specific to exploitation dynamics. Participants explore how grief uniquely presents in CSEC and trauma‑impacted youth, including ambiguous and disenfranchised grief, cumulative loss, and moral injury, as well as how neurobiology, threat response, and disrupted attachment shape expression and healing. Through realistic vignettes, practical tools, and cross‑system strategies, participants gain the skills to recognize hidden grief, reduce misdiagnosis and punitive responses, and integrate grief‑informed practices across disciplines. The training emphasizes restoring dignity, strengthening connection, and supporting pathways toward safety, regulation, and long‑term healing.

When Strength Hurts: Understanding and Addressing Resilience Fatigue in CSEC and Trauma‑Impacted Youth

Resilience is often celebrated as a strength, yet for youth who have experienced severe abuse, neglect, and CSEC, the expectation to “be strong” can lead to resilience fatigue—a state of emotional, physical, and cognitive exhaustion that compromises safety, healing, and decision-making. This training reframes resilience through a trauma‑ and survivor‑informed lens, distinguishing healthy coping from survival‑driven overfunctioning that hides distress and discourages help‑seeking. Grounded in trauma theory, stress adaptation models, and neurobiological insights, participants examine how systems may unintentionally turn resilience into a liability—rewarding compliance while overlooking exhaustion or misinterpreting avoidance and resistance as noncompliance rather than protection. Through interactive case examples and practical skill building, the training equips participants to recognize resilience fatigue in real time and respond with sustainable, trauma-informed supports that prioritize relational safety, collaboration, and long-term healing over short‑term performance.

Justice and Healing: Confronting Moral Injury and Forced Criminalization in CSEC and Trauma-Impacted Youth in Systems Care

Youth impacted by commercial sexual exploitation (CSEC) and foster care trauma are too often misidentified as “offenders,” leading to punitive pathways that compound harm. Two dynamics drive this misalignment: (1) moral injury experienced by youth and by helping professionals when systems betray core values, and (2) forced criminality—when exploitation coerces illegal acts for survival. This training reframes responses from control and compliance to healing‑centered, restorative practices that restore dignity, voice, safety, and connection. It equips cross‑system professionals to recognize indicators, interrupt criminalization, and operationalize restorative justice (RJ) principles in everyday decisions, case planning, and team coordination.

Familial Trafficking: Understanding Hidden Exploitation within the Family System

This training is designed to help professionals recognize and respond to trafficking and exploitation perpetrated by caregivers, family members, or trusted adults. Participants explore how familial trafficking differs from other forms of CSEC, including the use of attachment, dependency, coercion, and loyalty to maintain control and silence. The training examines how trauma bonding, fear, and systemic barriers can complicate disclosure, identification, and intervention. Grounded in survivor‑informed and trauma‑responsive practice, this training helps participants challenge common myths, understand the profound impact of betrayal trauma, and identify indicators that are often overlooked or misinterpreted. Participants gain practical strategies to respond safely and ethically, support youth autonomy, and coordinate across systems in ways that prioritize protection, trust, and long‑term healing.

Addressing Intergenerational Trauma in CSEC and Trauma-Impacted Youth

This training is designed to help professionals understand how historical, familial, and community‑based trauma can shape the experiences, behaviors, and vulnerabilities of youth impacted by commercial sexual exploitation and system involvement. Participants explore how trauma is transmitted across generations through disrupted attachment, systemic oppression, and ongoing adversity and how these patterns can influence coping strategies, relationships, and engagement with care. The training emphasizes a strengths‑based, culturally responsive approach that avoids blame and recognizes resilience within families and communities. By increasing awareness of intergenerational trauma, participants gain practical strategies to respond with empathy, reduce re‑traumatization, and support healing that extends beyond the individual youth.

LGBTQIA+ Youth & Human Trafficking: Understanding Vulnerability and Building Protective Responses

This training is designed to increase awareness of why LGBTQIA+ youth are disproportionately vulnerable to human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation. Participants explore how factors such as family rejection, housing instability, discrimination, identity‑based violence, and system mistrust can increase risk while limiting access to safe supports. The training emphasizes the intersection of sexual orientation, gender identity, trauma, and systemic inequities and how these experiences shape survival strategies and engagement with services. Grounded in trauma-informed, affirming, and youth-centered practice, this training equips professionals with knowledge and practical approaches to reduce harm, build trust, and create safer, more inclusive environments that promote dignity, belonging, and resilience.

Conversations that Tame Confrontation when Engaging with Trauma-Impacted Youth.

This is a skills‑based workshop focused on helping professionals de‑escalate conflict and build connection during challenging interactions with youth affected by complex trauma and system involvement. Participants explore how trauma, survival responses, and past experiences with authority can shape communication, emotional regulation, and reactions to perceived threats or control. The workshop emphasizes language, tone, and relational strategies that reduce power struggles, defuse confrontation, and promote emotional safety. Grounded in trauma-responsive and youth-centered practice, participants learn how to engage in conversations that foster trust, increase cooperation, and support regulation—while maintaining clear expectations and supportive boundaries.

Developing and Maintaining Supportive Boundaries with Trauma‑Impacted Youth

This training helps professionals balance compassion, connection, and accountability while working with youth who have experienced complex trauma and system involvement. Participants explore how trauma, attachment disruption, and survival strategies can impact boundaries, relationships, and expectations. The training emphasizes setting clear, consistent, and developmentally appropriate boundaries that promote safety and trust without being punitive or distancing. Through a trauma‑responsive and youth‑centered lens, participants gain practical strategies to maintain professional boundaries that support regulation, stability, and healing while reducing burnout and role confusion.

Building Trust with CSEC and Trauma-Impacted Youth

This is a customized training designed to help professionals understand how exploitation, complex trauma, and system involvement shape a young person’s ability to trust adults and services. Participants learn how to build authentic, consistent relationships through a youth‑centered, trauma‑responsive lens that prioritizes safety, choice, and respect. The training explores the impact of power dynamics, survival behaviors, and past system harm and emphasizes practical strategies for engagement that avoid re‑traumatization. By focusing on empathy, reliability, and collaboration, this training supports practitioners in creating connections that promote stability, healing, and long‑term engagement.

Safety Planning & Harm Reduction with Trauma-Impacted Youth

This training workshop focuses on prioritizing immediate physical and emotional safety while respecting youth autonomy and lived experience. These approaches emphasize collaboration with the young person to identify risks, triggers, and protective strategies, rather than relying on punitive or compliance‑based responses. Harm reduction techniques acknowledge that survival behaviors may continue and aim to reduce risk, prevent further trauma, and build trust. Grounded in trauma‑informed, culturally responsive, and youth‑centered care, safety planning supports stability, empowerment, and long‑term healing within child‑serving systems.

Finding Hope: Post‑Traumatic Growth after CSEC and Abuse

We will discuss and explore how trauma‑impacted youth can reclaim meaning, identity, and agency beyond survival. Rather than framing healing as “moving on” or minimizing harm, this training centers post-traumatic growth as a process that honors loss, pain, and lived experience while supporting the emergence of hope and self-trust. Participants learn how trauma, chronic adversity, and system involvement shape a young person’s sense of self, worldview, and future orientation. Through a trauma‑responsive and youth‑centered lens, the training introduces strategies that foster empowerment, purpose, and connection without pressuring youth to be resilient or “positive.” Emphasis is placed on relational safety, choice, and authentic engagement, equipping professionals to support meaningful, sustainable growth led by the youth themselves.

A Deeper Dive: Secondary Trauma, Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, Moral Injury, and Vicarious & Organizational Trauma for Service Providers

This advanced training examines how sustained exposure to trauma, systemic stress, and ethical dilemmas impacts the well‑being of professionals working with trauma‑impacted youth and communities. Moving beyond surface‑level self‑care, this training explores the interconnected nature of secondary traumatic stress, compassion fatigue, burnout, moral injury, and organizational trauma—and how these experiences accumulate over time. Participants gain a deeper understanding of how workplace culture, policies, power dynamics, and chronic under‑resourcing can amplify harm to providers while undermining the quality of care. Through a trauma‑responsive and systems‑informed lens, the training emphasizes collective care, shared responsibility, and organizational accountability alongside individual strategies. Participants leave with practical tools to recognize warning signs, reduce stigma, foster healthier work environments, and build sustainable practices that support both provider well-being and long-term effectiveness in their work.

Caring for Ourselves When Working with Trauma‑Impacted Youth

In this training, we will move beyond surface‑level self‑care to examine the real emotional, physical, and relational toll of trauma‑exposed work. Rather than offering productivity‑driven wellness tips or one‑size‑fits‑all solutions, this training centers on the lived realities of professionals who hold grief, crisis, moral tension, and systemic barriers alongside the youth they serve. Participants explore how chronic exposure to trauma impacts the nervous system, identity, boundaries, and capacity for connection—often showing up as exhaustion, numbness, irritability, disconnection, or loss of meaning. Through a trauma‑responsive and systems‑aware lens, the training reframes self‑care as regulation, sustainability, and collective responsibility rather than personal failure. Participants learn realistic, accessible strategies for nervous system support, relational repair, and boundary‑holding that can be integrated into daily work rather than added as another task. The training emphasizes practices that prevent burnout, reduce shame, and support long‑term presence in the work—without minimizing the weight of what providers carry.

Sexual Health and Intimacy After Sexual Trauma: Healing Beyond Silence

Survivors of extreme sexual trauma often carry profound shame, disconnection, and confusion long after the abuse has ended—especially around their bodies, sexual health, and capacity for intimacy. Because these topics are frequently avoided or treated as taboo within systems of care, survivors are left to navigate some of the most vulnerable aspects of healing in isolation. This workshop creates a trauma‑informed, survivor‑centered space to explore sexual health and intimacy as essential components of recovery, rather than subjects to be ignored or rushed. Participants examine how extreme sexual trauma impacts the nervous system, body autonomy, attachment, identity, and relationships and how shame can quietly shape coping, avoidance, or risk‑taking behaviors. Grounded in trauma theory and lived‑experience insight, the workshop offers practical frameworks for understanding consent after coercion, reconnecting safely with the body, and supporting survivor‑defined healing without pressure to “heal fully” or return to normative expectations of intimacy. Designed for clinicians, advocates, educators, and service providers, this training equips participants with language, perspective, and strategies to engage these conversations with sensitivity, clarity, and respect—reducing harm and restoring dignity in the healing process.

Calm in Chaos: Mindfulness & Breathwork for Complex Trauma in CSEC and Trauma‑Impacted Youth

This training is designed to help professionals understand and safely use mindfulness and breath-based practices to support regulation, grounding, and emotional safety for youth affected by commercial sexual exploitation (CSEC) and complex trauma. Rather than promoting mindfulness as a compliance tool or quick fix, this training centers trauma‑responsive, choice‑based approaches that recognize how traditional practices can feel unsafe or activating for some youth. Participants explore how chronic threat, dissociation, and disrupted attachment impact the nervous system and how carefully adapted mindfulness and breathwork techniques can support stabilization without re-traumatization. Through practical demonstrations, case examples, and real‑world applications across child‑serving systems, participants learn how to introduce these tools in ways that respect autonomy, cultural context, and lived experience. The training emphasizes flexibility, consent, and co‑regulation—equipping professionals to help youth access moments of calm, connection, and agency amid chaos.

Somatic Work as Human Trafficking Prevention: Nervous Systems, Trauma, Brain Development, and Early Childhood Impact

This training explores how early adversity, chronic stress, and complex trauma shape the developing brain and nervous system—and how these impacts can increase vulnerability to exploitation and trafficking. Rather than viewing risk solely through behavior or circumstance, this training centers the body as a critical site of prevention, regulation, and resilience. Participants learn how early childhood trauma, disrupted attachment, and prolonged threat alter stress responses, impulse control, relational safety, and decision-making across development. The training introduces trauma‑responsive somatic approaches that support nervous system regulation, embodiment, and co‑regulation in age‑appropriate and culturally responsive ways. Through practical examples and cross‑system application, participants gain tools to integrate somatic awareness into prevention, early intervention, and ongoing support—reducing reliance on survival responses and strengthening protective factors that promote safety, connection, and long‑term healing.

Maladaptive Behaviors → Positive Coping

This training helps professionals reframe behaviors often labeled as “defiant,” “manipulative,” or “noncompliant” as adaptive survival strategies shaped by trauma, chronic stress, and system involvement. Participants learn how trauma impacts regulation, attachment, and decision-making and how these impacts can drive behaviors that communicate unmet needs rather than intentional resistance. Through a trauma‑responsive and youth‑centered lens, the training equips participants to identify the underlying trauma responses behind challenging behaviors and respond with empathy, consistency, and skill. Participants gain practical strategies to support youth in building safer, healthier coping skills that promote regulation, choice, and long‑term healing—reducing power struggles and fostering stronger, more trusting relationships.

Radical Self‑Love as Resistance: Healing Shame After Extreme Trauma

Radical self‑love is framed as a courageous, trauma‑informed practice—not surface positivity but a grounded commitment to compassion, agency, and embodied safety. This session blends lived experience and clinical insight to show how shame rewires identity, how traditional self‑love messages can miss survivors, and how reclaiming the body and story becomes an act of embodied justice. Expect an energetic, interactive experience that balances safety, choice, and playful experimentation with serious, restorative work. Shame isolates, fragments identity, and stalls recovery. Reimagining self‑love as resistance shifts the work from self‑fixing to restoring dignity, building regulation skills, and creating collective accountability. This approach centers survivor voice, honors pacing and consent, and positions self-love as a political and relational practice that undoes stigma and rebuilds trust in the body and community.

Many Paths, One Healing Journey: Reimagining Healing After Complex Trauma

Many Paths, One Healing Journey reframes recovery as a deeply personal, nonlinear process rather than a single prescribed route. Blending lived experience with clinical insight, this keynote or interactive workshop explores a wide spectrum of healing modalities—traditional, somatic, creative, community-based, and unconventional—while centering survivor agency, consent, and safety. Participants will leave with practical frameworks for honoring complexity, tools to expand treatment options, and the confidence to hold space for multiple, coexisting pathways to wellness.

What participants will experience

A trauma‑informed lens—understand how safety, pacing, and choice shape sustainable healing.
Modality map—Learn a practical taxonomy of healing approaches (psychotherapy, somatic practices, peer support, spiritual and creative practices) and when each may be helpful.
Survivor‑centered practice—Concrete strategies for centering voice, consent, and cultural humility in care planning.
Case vignettes and lived stories—real‑world examples that illuminate nonlinear progress, setbacks, and resilience.
Interactive skill building — Experiential exercises, reflective prompts, and small‑group practice to translate ideas into immediate clinical or community use.

Formats and customization

Keynote (45–75 minutes) — Inspiring, story‑driven overview that shifts culture and opens new possibilities.
Half‑day workshop (3 hours)—Mix of teaching, casework, and experiential practice for immediate skill uptake.
Full‑day training (6–7 hours) — Deep dive with implementation planning, role plays, and team consultation. Each format can be tailored for clinical teams, community organizations, or conference audiences and includes handouts and practical takeaways.

Walk With Me: The Courage of Steady Presence

A gala talk about what actually changes lives: not saving, not fixing—showing up consistently. Highlights the marathon nature of healing and why donors matter for long‑term safety and support.

Light in the Middle of the Mess: What Hope Looks Like in Real Life

A message about hope that doesn’t bypass pain—hope as daily repair, safe relationships, and second chances. Ties beautifully to donor impact and sustainability.

Beyond the Trauma: Sexual Healing, Shame, and Reclaiming Intimacy

Through a survivor‑centered lens, the keynote explores how shame takes root, why silence persists, and what it means to reclaim agency, safety, and choice in one’s body over time.

More Than My Trauma: Dignity, Identity, and the Future

A survivor‑centered talk about reclaiming identity beyond exploitation and how community investment helps survivors build lives that feel like their own.

The Cost of Silence—and the Power of Belief

A talk on what it means when someone is finally believed and how belief becomes tangible through resources: safe housing, advocacy, therapy access, mentoring, and prevention education.

Compassion Between Equals

A values keynote grounded in shared humanity—compassion not as pity, but solidarity. Perfect for mission‑aligned giving and volunteer engagement.

The Myth of “Choice” in Coercion

A nuanced look at coercion and “why they stay,” shifting audiences from judgment to clarity and action.

The Gap Between Policy and People

How well‑intended rules can create harm—and how frontline teams and leaders can redesign processes to increase safety, dignity, and outcomes.

Primary audiences and outcomes

Trauma survivors feel safe, regain agency, develop somatic tools, and cultivate sustainable self‑compassion.
Direct service staff (care personnel, social workers, and community workers) gain trauma-informed skills, de-escalation tools, and embodied presence for safer, more effective support.
Medical and law enforcement professionals learn practical, non‑pathologizing approaches to interact with trauma‑impacted people with dignity and reduced retraumatization.
Organizations and community groups build policies, protocols, and cultures that center accessibility, inclusion, and embodied care.

What Clients Are Saying:
Words from the Heart.

"Angie was fantastic and knowledgeable and was able to share knowledge that is important for leading the group and supporting others."

Andreena Harriman, Therapist

Devereux Advanced Behavioral HealthGeorgia Location