Professional Education

The purpose of our trainings is to help service providers, educators, and staff go from feeling confused, powerless, and ineffective to empowered by providing detailed, trauma-informed training and education so that they can develop efficacious relationships to build resiliency in their clients and themselves.

Our trainings include:

  1. “Trauma-informed 101” — how to get started on becoming trauma-aware.

  2. Caring for yourself: Is it professional burnout, traumatic stress response, or both? And what can we do about that?

  3. Neurodivergent-affirming communication services.

  4. Neurodivergent culture: Difference vs. disorder version 2.0.

  5. Trauma-informifying those “old” clinical tools (aka what do you do with that Listening Larry poster that teacher won’t take down?)

  6. Unpacking the biggest barriers to TIC: Provider/caregiver mental health and implicit bias.


Each training includes:

  • Necessary background information to become trauma-sensitive (per the Missouri Model of Trauma-Informed Care).

  • Review of common, current strategies/treatment techniques that are trauma-informed.

  • Strategies to expand the individual and organizational trauma-informed toolbox.

  • Exercises and case studies to bridge new information to immediate implementation.

Trainings are currently being offered either in-person or virtually per timed packages (e.g., 60 minutes, 90 minutes, 120 minutes). Pricing is based on timed package as well as travel considerations for in-person. Packages can also be customized via consultation to fit any budget and/or time constraints.

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Good stuff people say about Kim’s talks

  • “1) [Kim is] a dynamic, passionate, engaging speaker with so much to share. I look forward to attending more talks. 2) I really appreciated the emphasis of shifting to viewing ND as cultural differences. It's an important reframe to keep emphasizing."

    2023 ASHA attendee

    (talk topic: Neurodivergent-affirming care)

  • “[Kim was] delightful. Clear and funny! It gave me so much more insight into supporting our neurodivergent clients and seeing them as the beautiful complex humans they are. As a neurodivergent person I am so glad that [she is] doing so much to teach these concepts.”

    2023 ASHA attendee

    (talk topic: Neurodivergent-affirming care)

  • "I am a mental health professional (LCSW), and felt it extremely validating and relieving to consider my work situation as experiencing trauma rather than that I’m just burned out and cannot cope. "

    Courage to Risk 2024 attendee

    (talk topic: Burnout)

  • "It was so beautiful to share a safe space at a time where 'trauma informed' can feel so isolating and activating for ND people with CPTSD. Thank you. I needed this. "

    2023 ASHA attendee
    (talk topic: Neurodivergent-affirming care)

  • "Engaging, funny and informative"

    Courage to Risk 2024 attendee
    (talk topic: Burnout)

  • "You're talk last year was AWESOME!"

    -2022 Courage to Risk talk attendee (on having ND affirming classrooms) & adult autistic special education educator. Said to Kim one year later (at the 2023 CtR conference) when he recognized her in the crowd. (Now is one of Kim’s colleague/friends.)

  • "OMG! It's you! We were just saying your talk was the ONE talk that made coming her totally worth it! It was so amazing and it really empowered us to keep doing the neurodivergent-affirming things we're doing, even when we feel like we're the 'crazy' ones."

    -2023 ASHA talk attendees when they saw Kim heading toward dinner out near the harbor in Boston.