Empowered Healing: A Strengths-Based Approach to Trauma and Well-Being

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(November 2024) Empowered Healing: A Strengths-Based Approach to Trauma and Well-Being

Discover how cutting-edge neurobiology redefines the trauma response—not as a sign of weakness or disorder, but as the body’s natural, functional response to threat. In this transformative training, you’ll learn how to reframe trauma from an empowered, strengths-based perspective, and learn how to harness inherent resilience. This training provides practical tools you can immediately integrate into your practice, offering relief for the symptoms of trauma while promoting overall well-being. You’ll also explore innovative approaches that move beyond managing trauma symptoms, using joy and hope as key drivers for lasting healing and thriving.

MaryCatherine (MC) McDonald, PhD, is an author, research professor, and life coach who specializes in the psychology of trauma, stress, and resilience. She has been researching, lecturing, and publishing on the neuroscience, psychology, and lived experience of trauma and stress for over a decade. She is passionate about destigmatizing trauma, stress, and mental health issues in general, as well as reframing our understanding of trauma in order to better understand and treat it. She has published several research articles and book chapters, as well as three books on trauma. The most recent book came out in 2023 with Sounds True publishing, and is called Unbroken: The Trauma Response is Never Wrong (and other things you need to know to take back your life). In addition to her academic work, Dr. McDonald has a thriving life- coaching business. She has worked with many different populations including, combat veterans, victims of sexual assault and childhood trauma, previously incarcerated folks, those suffering from the loss of a loved one, people going through career transitions, dealing with burnout, working to fix family dynamics, and more. She has coached individuals clients and corporations since 2010, and created trauma-based curriculum for nonprofit organizations in New York, Virginia, and California.

Watch time: 83 minutes

Eligible Certificate of Completion time: 90 minutes