TRAUMA RESILIENCE
Mental Health Professionals
Resources & Featured Offerings
For practitioners and other professionals seeking to do no (further) harm and dismantle oppressive systems through trauma-sensitive, *consent-based* business strategies.
This page has 3 things to make your work easier:
- free professional resources
- research and readings on high-control and religious trauma (my specialty!)
- consulting options for individuals and teams
Why it’s free: For trauma-sensitive and anti-rape-culture reasons, I don’t do email funnels or “freebie” trades. You’re welcome to consensually join my non-spammy newsletter if you’d like.
Bottom line: Thank you for doing the heavy lifting of trauma healing. You deserve all the rest and good vacations.
If you’d ever like to connect—coffee, collaboration, or conversation—I’d love that.
~ Emily Ann Peterson
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Three Things I Believe About Your Business & Career...
- Your business can support you with the *same* ease, self-regulation, and skill that you give to your clients.
- *Time* is your most valuable, non-renewable, externally-sourced, and equitable asset in all of life.
- Commerce (not capitalism) is a *powerful* and underutilized tool for dismantling systems of oppression & cycles of trauma.
for Mental Health Helpers & Healers
Come back soon for more or send me an email if you'd like to add something!
Mental Health Industry
- HIIPA Training Materials (US Dept of Health & Human Services)
- The Use of Technology & HIIPA Compliance (Forbes Magazine, 3/2021)
- The Therapy App Fantasy (The Cut, 3/2021)
- Children & Trauma, .pdf (American Psychological Association, 2008)
- List of Therapist Directories (SimplifiedSEOConsulting)
- Model Business Associate Template (.pdf)—from Human & Health Services
- free from LegalTemplates
- eForms—create a state-specific BAA and enters the information for you
- Sample BAA (.pdf)—from National Association of Social Workers, July 2022
I've provided my clients with a massive (and fascinating!) collection of scholarly research showing its effect on capitalism, business owners, marketing, and gender. However, here is a smaller collection specific to you and your colleagues:
The Religious Trauma Institute (co-founded by Laura Anderson, LMFT, and Brian Peck, LCSW)—phenomenal webinars and trainings for y'all!
QAnon's Unexpected Roots in New Age Spirituality: masculinity, faith, and the strange convergence of counterculture and hate (Washington Post, 3/21/2021)
Cults, Mind Control, Thought Reform, and Abusive Groups: What Clinicians Should Know (S. Nelson, 2012)
Healthy Thinking as Means of Preventive Maintenance and a Therapy for Pathological Thinking in Destructive Cults (Evgeny N . Volkov, 2007)
Influence of a Charismatic Antisocial Cult Leader: Psychotherapy With an Ex-Cultist Prosecuted for Criminal Behavior (Lorna Goldberg, MSW, LCSW, PsyA)
Eichel, S. K. D. (2015). Cults, Extremist Movements, and the Child Custody Evaluation: Pitfalls and Strategies. Handbook of Child Custody, 273–289.
Stein, A. (1997). Mothers in cults: The influence of cults on the relationship of mothers to their children. Cultic Studies Journal.
Tourish, D. (2005). Charismatic Leadership and Corporate Cultism at Enron: The Elimination of Dissent, the Promotion of Conformity and Organizational Collapse. Leadership, 1(4), 455–480.
Schwartz, L. L., & Kaslow, F. W. (1979). Religious Cults, the Individual and the Family. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 5(2), 15–26.
- Depression—Available for iOS—this app includes at least 6 different scales of measurement that can make it easy to access the information needed to assess, treat, and manage your patients' depression and anxiety.
- uDictate—Available for iOS—This dictation app was designed specifically for professionals in the medical and legal fields and includes some pretty rad features.
- Veteran Affairs & The National Center for PTSD—they offer a suite of apps, including a very effective Insomnia Coach. I've listed many of them here.
Assessments & Inventories
I regularly add to this collection of assessments and my clients use them for many reasons (i.e. in-take, tracking progress, etc.) The ones listed below are my go-to's. They're all freely available, not connected to a sales funnel, and backed by troves of scholarly research.
- Holmes & Rahe Stress Scale—I've popped this into a Google form, so it's easy for clients to take quickly, anonymously, and get their score instantly!
- ProQOL: Professional Quality of Life Assessment—this is an excellent one for folks in helping professions to take annually
- IAT: Implicit Association Tests—super important for those of us who care about diversity, equity, and inclusion
- MAIA: Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness—excellent for tracking progress of interoception skill-building
- ACEs Assessment: Adverse Childhood Experiences—that good ol' Kaiser Permanente study we know and love ;-)
A FAVORITE OFFERING (AND GREAT PICK FOR COUNSELORS & THERAPISTS!)
a fierce little bundle of reusable spreadsheets for solving pricing decisions, time management woes & financial strategy support
- test drive my Masters in Business Administration!
- answer your client-based finance questions!
- and walk away with a reusable business tool!