Embody nervous system regulation, provide leading-edge support to your clients and level up your business.

Intro to Trauma-Informed Care for Wellness Practitioners

A 10-week, one-on-one workshop series designed to take wellness practitioners from curious to informed about trauma-informed care

  • If you’re a wellness practitioner, you’ve probably wondered if offering trauma-informed care is necessary.

    Offering trauma-informed care (which is simpler than you might think) is both necessary and important. Doing so positively impacts client recovery time, recovery outcomes and, increases their positive sense of self. Being trauma-informed means we know that language matters and we offer choice-based language and ongoing consent. It means we know what trauma is and how people are impacted by it. It means understanding the nervous system, regulating our own and teaching our clients to do the same. A trauma-informed wellness practitioner helps clients feel empowered and in control which builds trust.

  • The absolute best part of becoming trauma-informed?

    A regulated nervous system of your own. A regulated nervous system feels better physically, emotionally and mentally. It increases our capacity to tolerate nervous-system activation and emotional distress. And, **bonus**, clients have better recovery results when their wellness practitioner is regulated.

  • Offering trauma-informed care supports business growth and attracts a whole new client.

    As your trauma-informed skills grow and you practice nervous-system regulation, your practice grows too. Whether it be through referrals from impressed clients or by adding your new skills to your marketing material, your new trauma-informed education will help you grow your business.

  • Trauma-informed wellness practitioners are recognized as leaders in their field.

    Practitioners who offer trauma-informed care are on the leading edge of the healing and helping professions. Trauma impacts nearly everyone on the planet, whether we know it or not. Offering trauma-informed care in a regulated and safe way makes wellness work extra impactful.

  • Adopting a trauma-informed care approach will change your life, not just the life of your clients.

    Imagine how this new knowledge and deepened nervous system regulation might change your life! You'll become a better advocate for yourself and others. Your nervous system will become more regulated. You might open up a whole new career path (🙋🏻‍♀️).

The truth is, wellness practitioners who don’t practice trauma-informed care don’t have the skills, education or regulated nervous system to support a client who’s triggered and suffering from trauma or PTSD. This isn’t good and, this isn’t the wellness practitioner’s fault. Most wellness courses, certifications and designations lack any formal or robust trauma-informed education even though trauma is a major indicator of mental illness, emotional distress, chronic pain, relational issues, burnout and more.

Here’s why that’s a huge problem…

  • trauma awareness

    When wellness practitioners don’t know what trauma is and what causes it or how the brain works (or doesn't) when triggered, they can’t properly support their clients in a triggered state.

  • Self-regulation

    Wellness practitioners need to know how to regulate their own nervous system so they can teach their clients to do the same.

  • client experience

    They need to understand the impacts of systemic trauma so they can affirm their client’s lived experience. They need to know how to bring their reasoning brain online after they’ve been triggered so they can problem-solve with their client.

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The good news? I created this workshop series so wellness practitioners can learn about trauma-informed care and (most importantly) learn how to self-regulate to better support their clients and their business.

Over the past 6 years, I’ve studied trauma from the perspective of a coach and healer as well as the perspective of a person who lives with PTSD. Taking everything I’ve learned, I've built this workshop series to introduce trauma-informed care to other wellness practitioners.

You being the astute and wise wellness practitioner you are, may have tried other courses that claimed to give you the tools to support clients dealing with trauma but here’s why this is different...

  • This course is designed specifically for wellness practitioners like you.

    Wellness practitioners like you and I offer a unique form of support. Our clients are looking for support that differs from traditional medical and mental health care. We are the coaches, the bodyworkers, the beauty specialists, the breath workers and tarot readers who offer our own special (and vital) type of care. Adding a trauma-informed approach makes our work even more valuable.

  • Your approach has served you really well so far. How might adding a trauma-informed approach improve your services?

    Being on the verge of something new is freaking exciting, right? What kind of amazing outcomes in your own life and the lives of your clients might you experience when you start to offer a trauma-informed approach? Greater health, better relationships, deeper confidence... the list goes on.

  • Trauma impacts everyone: directly or indirectly.

    Humans can experience trauma on many levels. Single incidents like car accidents or a bad fall downstairs. Ongoing traumas like systemic racism, abuse in relationships or experiencing poverty. Some people, me among them, consider the isolation and uncertainty of Covid an ongoing collective trauma. Understanding trauma and its impacts allows us to treat our clients with more compassion, understanding and most importantly: care. When we carry the wisdom of trauma-informed education with us, we carry the balm desperately needed for our collective healing.

  • Being scared to learn something new, something that feels really important, is a sign of a wise wellness practitioner.

    Ready for an unpopular opinion? A lack of trauma-informed training limits the ways wellness practitioners support their clients and increases the ways they can harm them. Trauma-informed care is the future of care and wellness practitioners who don’t incorporate it into their practice run the risk of burning themselves out and capping their ability to treat clients.

  • I love working with folks who dare to change their mind. I welcome that kind of brave energy around here.

    You didn’t know how important adopting a trauma-informed approach was because we weren’t taught how important it was. We (you and me both) can forgive ourselves. We can forgive ourselves for calling ourselves trauma-informed when we weren’t. For approaching trauma from an uninformed place and hurting our clients. For not being able to repair with our client when we did. For believing that all this talk of trauma was just a trend. We can forgive ourselves for not knowing then what we do now. Let’s forgive ourselves and give ourselves permission to change our minds and educate ourselves.

Intro to Trauma-Informed Care for Wellness Practitioners is perfect for you if …

  • You’re interested in learning about trauma and trauma-informed care

  • You’re a wellness practitioner or someone who cares… a lot

  • You want to find new life and energy in your work

  • You want to add to your wellness toolkit

  • You’re a new wellness practitioner who wants to continue learning how to best care for your clients

  • You’ve hit a ceiling in your work and want to break through with new knowledge and practices

course outline

Exploring, but not limited to:

  • Why choice-based language is important and how to implement it into our work

  • Somatic and mindfulness-based self and co-regulation practices

  • How to practice ongoing consent and how doing so builds trust

  • How to support ourselves and our clients during changing and anxious times

  • The ScienceLITE of the brain and nervous system

  • Polyvagal Theory and the Window of Resilience

  • The different types of trauma; collective and individual and the layers of each

  • How trauma impacts us physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually

  • Understanding financial trauma and its impacts

  • Why offering healing services without understanding systems of oppression and societal traumas can be harmful

  • Practicing professional boundaries

  • Understanding our scope of practice and how to refer out when required

  • Acknowledging our emotional, physical and mental limits and working within those boundaries

  • Click here for a detailed course outline.

HERE’S WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU JOIN

  • 10 weeks of workshop-style 1:1 learning

  • One integration week

  • Nervous system education

  • Trauma-informed language training

  • A self and co-regulation toolbox filled with exercises, practices and techniques

  • Learn how to offer choice and ongoing consent to your clients

  • A safe, judgement-free learning environment

  • A robust list of continuing-ed resources, teachers, practitioners

  • A 1:1 coaching session with Megan (included when you pay in full)

  • $100 off a 4-week coaching package with Megan to support your learning and deepen your nervous system regulation and expand your emotional and mental capacity

  • A tarot reading outlining the journey you’ll take as we learn together

Stress and scarcity free money talk

Talking about trauma can feel overwhelming. It’s a big topic and money can be too. As I typed this, I took a few breaths that felt nourishing and invite you to do that too.

You know what is accessible and available to you in terms of finances. Here’s some info to help you make the best decision for you.

  • Payment Plan

    $350 when you register, $350 week three, $350 week six.

  • refund policy

    If you change your mind before we start (Week One), I will happily give you a full refund. No refunds once the course has started.

  • Payment Options

    Pay by credit card, PayPal or e-transfer.

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 FAQs

 

  • This is such a great question. A trauma-informed approach builds trust and connection with our clients which is supportive of their healing and recovery outcomes. Understanding our own lived experiences and the lived experience of our clients is a way to foster compassion for ourselves and them. Offering choice and ongoing consent puts the control back into the client’s hands and fosters trust.

  • A wellness practitioner is a coach, RMT, ND, TCM, fitness teacher, yoga teacher, hypnotherapist, meditation teacher, body worker, breath worker and more! If you don’t see your designation or title, feel free to ask me! hello@megansoutar.com

  • I love this keener attitude! No, you won’t be able to learn all you need to know about trauma in 8 weeks but you will learn a lot about the nervous system, regulation, trauma-informed care, choice-based language and ongoing consent. If this is your first dive into trauma education, this course is a great place to start. I’ll offer lots of resources and other courses to take as we get into the work too.

  • It is incredibly important to take a beginner’s view when we are educating ourselves about trauma, kind of no matter where you are on that journey, and so I actually applaud your self-doubt here. A little skepticism will go a long way when we want to offer safe care. And maybe you’re not qualified right now to do either but isn’t that why you’re considering this course? Feel free to contact me if you’re doubting yourself, let’s talk it out.

  • Words matter and in this case using words to offer choice and ask for consent layers on more care. Offering choice-based language and ongoing consent takes some time get used to but once implemented and practiced you’ll find a well-paced rhythm. If what’s most important is injury rehab then a trauma-informed approach offers the safest and most reliable path there.

  • After this course, you’ll be able to work with clients in a different capacity which may generate more referrals as their outcomes expand with your capacity. You will have to decide where you go next with your trauma education once you complete this course but having the foundation of a trauma-informed approach absolutely sets the stage for a growing business.

  • I am trauma-informed myself, you can see my qualifications here - scroll down to Education & Training. I’m also a person who lives with PTSD so I really understand the need for trauma-informed wellness practitioners.

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