The work of trauma treatment can be transformative—but also quietly devastating. Clinicians often carry the invisible wounds of those they serve, putting their own well-being at risk in the process. This course offers a roadmap to healing for both client and clinician, rooted in resilience and trauma-informed care.
In today’s demanding clinical environments, behavioral health professionals need tools that do more than just treat trauma—they need strategies that sustain their own wellness. This self-paced training provides those very tools, supporting both effective treatment and ethical, enduring practice.
Dr. Sarah Stewart-Spencer and Dr. Sofia Georgiadou are leading experts in trauma-informed care, supervision, and clinician wellness. Dr. Stewart-Spencer brings nearly two decades of clinical and academic experience, working with high-risk trauma populations and first responders. Dr. Georgiadou’s work is grounded in intersectionality, cultural responsiveness, and supervision, with deep experience supporting marginalized and equity-deserving communities. Their combined expertise ensures that every lesson in this course is not only evidence-based but deeply attuned to the lived realities of clinical work.
This course blends research-backed models with real-world application, offering a comprehensive guide through the phases of trauma recovery while addressing the often-overlooked cost of caring. The instructors guide learners through reflective exercises, case conceptualization, and practical strategies for both clinical and personal sustainability.
Participants will explore tri-phasic trauma treatment frameworks, somatic and cognitive-based models, and the nuances of clinician resilience and trauma stewardship. Topics include TF-CBT, EMDR, IFS, somatic experiencing, trauma-informed systems of care, and integrative self-care frameworks. The course also addresses the ethical and practical considerations of vicarious trauma, secondary traumatic stress, and burnout, helping clinicians design protective rituals and personalized care plans for their long-term professional well-being.
Key Takeaways:
Design and deliver trauma-informed treatment: Learn to confidently create and apply case-specific, evidence-based plans rooted in the tri-phasic model of trauma recovery.
Build resilience and regulate secondary trauma: Discover how to recognize indirect trauma symptoms in yourself and adopt effective, sustainable self-care strategies.
Protect your purpose and passion: Walk away with practical tools to safeguard your energy, ethics, and empathy throughout a career of deep clinical engagement.
Why this course?
A clinician-centered focus: Unlike many trauma trainings, this course goes beyond clinical technique to address the emotional toll of care on the clinician.
Led by nationally recognized experts: Dr. Stewart-Spencer and Dr. Georgiadou offer extensive clinical, academic, and supervisory experience with high-impact trauma populations and culturally responsive frameworks.
A trusted educational partner: Telehealth Certification Institute is committed to equipping healthcare professionals with exceptional continuing education that honors excellence, wellness, and collaboration.
Learning Objectives:
Apply the core principles of trauma-informed care to case examples.
Design a trauma-informed treatment plan for a case study client.
Classify elements of indirect trauma and the impact it has on clinician well-being.
Identify levels of resilience and self-care strategies used for combating the indirect effects of trauma.
Join a growing number of clinicians who are reclaiming their vitality while deepening their trauma-informed practice. Trauma-Informed Treatment and Clinician Self-Care is not just a course—it’s a guide to thriving in a profession that asks so much of us.
Enroll now to develop your skills, boost your confidence, and enhance your impact as a behavioral health professional.
This is a non-interactive, self-study course. It consists of over 4 hours of video instruction and a post-test.
Availability: From the time of registration, you have six months to access the coursework.
Who Should Attend: This course is intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services.
Teaching Methods: This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Teaching methods for this course include recorded lectures, videos, a post-test, and a course evaluation.
How to Attend: Instructions for attending and completing a course can be found here.
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Sofia Georgiadou, PhD, LMFT-S, LPC-S (Texas)
Dr. Sofia Georgiadou is an Assistant Professor and Internship Coordinator at the University of Houston at Clear Lake’s MA in Family Therapy Program. Additionally, she teaches as an Adjunct for the Family Institute at Northwestern University and Capella University's fully online Master's in Family Therapy program. She is also the administrator of COAST’s Educators Division, the Society for the Teaching of Marriage and Family Therapy (www.stmft.coastmft.org).
Originally from Greece, Sofia develops culturally responsive MFT and Counseling courses, using an intersectional approach in her teaching and supervision. Her research experience centers on qualitative/mixed methods and survey design. Sofia seeks to understand the lived experiences of diverse groups to better support international students, immigrants, and individuals from equity-deserving communities.
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Sarah Stewart-Spencer, PhD, LPC, LMHC, NCC, CH, CCTP
Dr. Sarah Stewart-Spencer is a clinical provider specializing in trauma and an accomplished leader in higher education and counseling. Dr. Stewart-Spencer is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Virginia, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida, and Nationally Certified Counselor. She is also certified as a First Responder Provider, Hypnotherapist and a Clinical Trauma Professional.
Dr. Stewart-Spencer is the owner of the Integrated Wellness Institute and Stewart-Spencer Consulting. She is currently an Associate Professor (adjunct faculty) at The Chicago School for Professional Psychology. She is a course developer and trainer at the International Trauma Training Institute, as well as maintains a private practice for high-risk trauma exposed populations, such as law enforcement. She is the former Dean of Behavioural Sciences at Yorkville University, Canada’s largest and leading online counselor education graduate program. Programs there include the Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology and Doctorate in Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Professional contributions include numerous publications, and presentations at the local, regional, state, national and international level. She is a creator of the national First Responder Treatment Provider certification training program. She is the Editor and Founder of Therapeutic Speakeasy Quarterly, which is a peer-reviewed electronic journal for the helping profession. She also served as the Editor of The Humanistic Counselor, a publication of the Association for Humanistic Counseling.
Her published books include Metaphors and Therapy: Enhancing Clinical Supervision and Education and a Routledge publication, Metaphors in Counselor Education and Supervision. These teaching guides break though ambiguity in counselor education and training by introducing a variety of metaphors to help instructors and supervisors.
She has also practiced in a variety of roles and settings, such crisis/emergency, community mental health, outpatient counseling, psychiatric inpatient, court-appointed assessments, consultation, and a clinical director of a private agency. She served in multiple leadership roles throughout the professional field, such as the board of the Virginia Clinical Counselors Alliance and University TeleMental Health Training Advisory Forum. She has also served as a committee member at the Association for Creative Counseling and Association for Humanistic Counseling.
Disclosure Statement: The instructors for this course receive compensation for their services. There are no reported conflicts of interest to disclose.
Credit Hours: This course consists of 4 continuing education hours of credit.
Counselors:
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Marriage and Family Therapists: Many MFT licensing boards accept our courses or one of the approvals which we have from professional associations. You can check with your board to determine if your licensing board would accept this course.
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Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Social Workers #SW-0435.
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Other Professionals: This course qualifies for 240 minutes of instructional content as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Retain your certificate of completion and contact your board or organization for specific filing requirements.
This is a non-interactive, self-study course.
