Working with Caregivers and the Family System Affected by Trauma
Price
Duration
1 Session
About the Course
Strengthening Connection: Trauma-Informed Caregiving in Practice
Join us for an engaging, relationship-centered training designed for clinicians who are supporting children and families. Together, we’ll explore how trauma shapes behavior, attachment, and development—and learn how to create safe, supportive caregiving environments that promote healing. Participants will leave with a clearer understanding of how to engage caregivers, address common barriers with compassion, and tailor interventions across developmental stages. You’ll also walk away with practical, easy-to-use co-regulation tools (like Redo’s, Two Choices, and Strong Sitting) that caregivers can use right away to build trust, reduce power struggles, and strengthen connection. This is a skills-based training you can bring directly into real-world practice—because small, intentional moments of connection can change everything.
Your Instructors
Thistle Newcomb, LPC
Lindy Swimm, LCSW
Thistle Newcomb, LPC specializes in treating Complex Trauma and Anxiety in Children, Teens, and Adults. She has nearly 30 years of experience in working with children, adolescents, and families with extensive knowledge of the child welfare system, foster care, and local resources. Lindy has over thirty years’ experience working with individuals, adolescents, children, and families. She specializes in attachment and trauma modalities that are well researched in their effectiveness to treat and mitigate mental health concerns. An Integrative Child-Parent approach is available for Attachment and Trauma needs for families and children. Also, individualized expressive therapy interventions such as art, sand tray, play therapy, and music are incorporated into therapy sessions. Lindy is a certified EMDR therapist. EMDR treatment is a highly effective treatment offered to assist in resolving complex conditions such as developmental trauma, PTSD, complicated grief and loss, and foster care and adoption issues. Specialties include relational problems, grief, and loss, treating victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, family therapy, dissociative behaviors in children and adolescents, families in the foster care system, and pre and post-adoption support services.