Experience

I have been presenting at local, national, and international conferences for over 17 years. I have been training communities and helping professionals in the Maryland and national community since 2010. I have received specialized training in virtual and in-person facilitation skills to ensure that participants are receiving the best training experience possible. Over the last two years, my trainings have included:

  • Development of organization-wide learning curriculums for two organizations working with mental health, substance use, and trauma
  • Development and facilitation of a 15-session training series for the Maryland Department of Health, covering topics such as suicidality, trauma, and resiliency.
  • Keynote Speaker at the 2021 Maryland School Psychologist Association Summer Institute on the topic of trauma-informed care in schools.
  • Presenter at the 2022 Maryland Best Practices Conference on the intersection of suicidality, overdose, and adverse childhood experiences. 
  • Speaker at the 2022 Garrett County Trauma-Informed Care Summit

Trauma-Informed Approach

I incorporate a trauma-informed professional development (TIPD) approach to each of its training sessions. This approach allows each training participant to experience trauma-informed services firsthand. TIPD considers participants’ personal histories, the high rate of vicarious traumatization for those working in the helping professions, and the current global pandemic. Sessions and series are designed with the goals of empowerment, choice, collaboration, compassion, and trust in mind. Evaluation forms and consultation groups allow participants to share their impressions, needs,
and challenges, and future sessions are updated and adapted as needed.

Training Topics

Trauma- & Assets-Informed Approaches

Trauma-informed care is a value-based approach that realizes the impact of trauma, recognizes signs of trauma, responds to trauma sensitively, and resists practices that retraumatize individuals, families, and communities. Inherent in this approach is the notion that people are not flawed, and their behaviors are a response to past experiences. I provide these trainings as 3-hour sessions and have also been able to work with communities to provide ongoing, supplemental trainings, consultation hours, and communities of practice to incorporate a trauma-informed care approach into practice.

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Parent Training Series

Parent training discuss the theory behind and skills related to positive parenting. Topics include the importance of connection in the parent-child relationships, limit-setting, modeling, labeled praise, and consistency. I offer this training as a professional development training, for providers to take back to their families, and as a community-based trainings that parents and caregivers can attend themselves. This training is typically between 90 minutes and three hours.

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Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences (HOPE) 101

The Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences (HOPE) 101 training describes the significant role of positive experiences in the life of a child. Amie was one of the first certified HOPE facilitators and the first HOPE technical assistance provider in the state of Maryland. She offers 60- and 90-minute training opportunities as well as consultations to consider implementation of strengths-based approaches into policies, practices, and activities.

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Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Interface Training

The ACE Interface trainer was designed by one of the co-principle investigators of the famous ACE Study. I am an approved trainer in the state of Maryland and offer 60-, 90-, and 180-minute trainings that describe the biology of childhood trauma, outline the findings of the ACE Study, and share protective factors that benefit individuals, families, and communities.

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Intersections of Trauma

Trauma acts as both a risk factor and a consequence of many mental health and behavioral health issues. Intersections trainings consider the role of trauma in presenting issues, gives easy-to-understand explanations to share within the community and with other professionals, and provides guidance on ways to train staff, interact with clients, and enact change to tackle complex issues that have a trauma component.

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Other Recent Training Topics:

  • Body Safety for Children
  • Dissociative Disorders
  • Embracing Imperfection
  • Ethics in Working with Parents
  • Executive Functioning
  • Resiliency-Building in Helping Professionals
  • The Role of Connection
  • Problematic Sexual Behavior
  • Work/Life Balance

I am happy to customize each session to meet the needs of attendees.
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