Trauma Informed Workshop (In person or Zoom)
This workshop is a core class in our School of Sound curriculum, and we’re happy to open it to the public.
Instructor: Michelle Klein , LPC, CCTP
Registration Fee: $200
Course Description:
Begin your journey to becoming a trauma-informed practitioner with this comprehensive introductory workshop. Learn about trauma, what trauma-informed care consists of and how to apply it to the practitioner/client relationship and interactions. Explore how loving-kind awareness of our own trauma-responses and that of others can help us build a foundation as a trauma-informed practitioner.
Course Objectives:
Identify what trauma is and understand that it is a normal part of the human experience.
Understand how trauma and stress affect our central nervous system and responses in the present day, including concepts such as the polyvagal theory, the window of tolerance, and the drama triangle.
Understand how the body holds trauma and how this affects the practitioner/client relationship and sound experience.
Explore how you experience stress/trauma in your mind/body and your common stress/trauma responses, as they relate to being a practitioner.
Identify common spaces where our or our client’s trauma/stress responses can impact the practitioner/client relationship and how to address it.
Identify how you can continue to grow as a trauma-informed practitioner.
If the event is sold out, feel free to give us a call to see if we can squeeze you in—we may have some availability! If you’d like to book for multiple people, give us a call at 412-484-5440, and we’ll do our best to accommodate you!
Meet your Practitioner:
Michelle Klein, LPC, CCTP
Michelle M. Klein, a 2009 graduate of the Pennsylvania State University, is the owner of Michelle Klein Counseling LLC, located in State College, Pennsylvania. She provides holistic counseling and coaching services to adults within Trauma-Informed interventions and therapies such as IFS (Internal Family Systems), Ego-State Parts Work, Somatic Therapy and Poly-Vagal Informed Therapy. She particularly enjoys working with young adults transitioning from high school or college to the career world. Within this area she works with students of diverse cultural, ethnic, and social backgrounds. She has particular experience with empowering her clients to maneuver the school and employment worlds as a minority, a neuro-diverse learner/thinker and/or a member of the LGBTQ+ community in a manner that is most genuine to themselves.
Prior to starting her solo practice in July of 2014, Michelle worked in Community-Based Mental Health as an Outpatient Therapist, an Inpatient Therapist and a Mobile Therapist. Additionally, Michelle worked as a fixed-term School Counselor in the Bald Eagle Area and Penns Valley school districts. Michelle’s philosophy is shaped not only by her training and experience in providing counseling services, but also by her diverse life experience as an advocate and volunteer, and within her first career as a documentary photographer.
Michelle is excited and honored to teach the Trauma-Informed Workshop for Rooted in Sound’s School of Sound Medicine. She firmly believes that a Trauma-Informed world is essential to all our futures.