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WITNESSABILITY
Growing a Resilience-Focused Professional Community
STORYINGS
Professional Practice Development
for
Mental Health Counselors
offering:
*Clinical Supervision (for Florida LMHC licensure)
*Professional Mentorship
*Training
What will be the story of your professional practice?
For early career professionals in the helping fields,
the first few years post graduation can bring significant uncertainty
of how to bring what you learned in graduate school
to the intense suffering of the clients you are witnessing.
It can be overwhelming to organize what you have learned
across multiple years of graduate study
to build a genuinely helping-focused professional practice.
connection & professional community
NARRATIVE INQUIRY
Professional As Person
How does who you are inform your professional practice?
Interpersonal neurobiology teaches us that the old-school style of,
"don't bring yourself" into the room as a helping professional
has become outdated.
Bodies attune toward threat when genuine connection is not present.
The ability to relationally attune intentionally requires self-awareness
as well as communicative competence and effectiveness.
unique being in relational space
THEORY INFORMED PRACTICE
Human & Societal Development
The application of theory to practice is often
underwhelming in graduate school training programs.
Yet it is the foundational ingredient that informs
how you nurture and grow your practice
across considerations for human development, societal systems,
mental health difficulties, and engaging change processes.
theory into practice to foster competency
RELATIONAL ETHICS
Co-Constructed & Intentional
Becoming critically trauma informed and learning
how to work with our personhood as a professional
requires a strong relationally ethical space, in addition to the
professional ethics involved.
It is unfortunate that sometimes what is termed
clinical supervision or mentorship in systems,
is actually institutionalized training and/or grooming
that does not at all promote growth for the helping professional
but rather recruits an individual into institutional processes
imposed on their helping professional role.
creativity and uniqueness
CRITICAL TRAUMA TRAINING
Deconstruction & Advocacy
Critical trauma theorists advocate for a deconstructive process
of what we think we know when it comes to trauma
and mental and physical health.
This is to allow room for new learning that recognizes that for healing trauma
we cannot abstract an individual from their world.
individual & collective trauma
RESILIENCE & COMMUNICATION
Similarities & Differences
Cultivating our professional clinical practice
can be enriched by connecting with other professionals
who think about and understand folx from differing perspectives.
Incompetency is bred in echo chambers where there is
no room for difference.
The best chance to cultivate the creativity
that yields individual and community healing
comes from when the both meets and.
understanding effective communication frameworks
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