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Trainings & Workshops

Practical, engaging education for the people and organizations doing meaningful work.

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At ThoughtWell Counseling Services, we provide trauma-informed trainings and workshops designed to increase understanding, build practical skills, and support emotional well-being.

Our trainings are grounded in real-world experience and are designed to be informative, interactive, practical, and immediately useful.

Whether you're looking to provide professional development for your staff, bring an educational program to your organization, or offer your community meaningful tools for navigating trauma, grief, emotional wellness, and relationships, ThoughtWell can create a training experience that meets your needs.

Virtual and customized training options are available.

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What Makes ThoughtWell Trainings Different?

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Practical

Participants leave with tools and strategies they can use beyond the training.

Trauma-Informed

Content is presented with an understanding of how trauma can affect individuals, relationships, behavior, and learning.

Interactive

Depending on the topic and audience, workshops can incorporate reflection, discussion, experiential activities, and practical exercises.

Relevant

Training content can be customized to the experiences, responsibilities, and needs of your audience.

Accessible

Programs are designed to make complex emotional and behavioral health concepts understandable without unnecessary clinical jargon.

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Trainings Designed for Your Audience

Every organization has different needs.

ThoughtWell can develop or adapt workshops for:

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Nonprofit Organizations
Support staff working in high-stress, trauma-exposed, or helping professions.

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Healthcare & Behavioral Health Professionals
Explore trauma-informed approaches, secondary trauma, emotional regulation, and client support.

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Social Service Agencies
Build staff knowledge and practical skills for working with individuals and families impacted by trauma, violence, grief, and difficult life circumstances.

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Workplaces & Employee Wellness Programs
Provide practical education around stress, emotional regulation, boundaries, grief, resilience, and mental wellness.

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Community Organizations
Offer accessible educational programs that increase awareness and provide practical tools.

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Professional Development Programs
Bring relevant, engaging education to staff meetings, professional development days, conferences, retreats, and continuing education events.

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Available Training Formats

Virtual Workshops

Convenient, engaging programs delivered virtually for individuals, teams, organizations, and professional groups.

In-Person Trainings

Available for organizations and groups based on location and scheduling.

Staff Development

Shorter educational sessions can be incorporated into staff meetings, retreats, professional development days, or wellness programming.

Half-Day & Full-Day Trainings

For organizations looking for more comprehensive education and skill development.

Conference & Speaking Engagements

ThoughtWell can provide educational presentations and workshops for conferences, professional associations, community events, and organizational gatherings.

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Educational—Not Therapy

ThoughtWell trainings and workshops are educational and skills-based.

They are not group therapy, crisis counseling, or a substitute for individual mental health treatment.

When topics involve trauma, grief, interpersonal violence, or other potentially sensitive experiences, participants are encouraged to care for themselves and participate at a level that feels appropriate for them.

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Meet Dana Hicks, LCSW

Dana Hicks, LCSW brings more than three decades of social-work experience to her training and educational work.

Her professional experience includes supporting individuals impacted by trauma, domestic violence, sexual violence, grief, and difficult life transitions.

Dana combines professional knowledge with practical, accessible education designed to help participants understand complex topics and leave with tools they can use.

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Request a Training today

Call us at 856-315-0410 or email Dana directly:

danahicks@thoughtwellcounseling.com

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Our programming can be adapted for professional, workplace, community, and educational audiences.

Trauma-Informed Care

Explore the impact of trauma and learn practical strategies for creating environments that promote safety, trust, choice, collaboration, and empowerment.

Topics may include:

  • Understanding trauma and trauma responses

  • Recognizing the effects of trauma

  • Trauma-informed communication

  • Avoiding retraumatization

  • Creating psychologically safer environments

  • Supporting individuals impacted by trauma

  • Secondary traumatic stress

  • Compassion fatigue and burnout

  • Trauma and the body

Emotional Regulation & Stress Management

Learn practical tools for recognizing emotions, reducing overwhelm, and responding rather than reacting.

Workshops may explore:

  • Understanding emotional regulation

  • Recognizing emotional triggers

  • Breathing and grounding techniques

  • Relaxation strategies

  • Movement and regulation

  • Managing stress

  • Building emotional awareness

  • Self-compassion

  • Developing healthier coping strategies

Featured workshop:

Regulating Emotions: Practical Tools for Finding Calm, Clarity, and Control

This 90-minute educational workshop provides practical, everyday tools to help participants notice emotions, reduce overwhelm, pause before reacting, and respond in ways that align with their values and goals.

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Grief & Loss

Grief can affect individuals, families, workplaces, and communities in ways that aren't always recognized.

Training topics may include:

  • Understanding grief

  • The non-linear nature of grief

  • Traumatic grief

  • Supporting grieving employees or clients

  • Grief in the workplace

  • Grief and major life transitions

  • Anniversary reactions and grief triggers

  • How to respond when someone is grieving

  • Self-care when supporting others through loss

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Boundaries & Healthy Relationships

Explore how boundaries contribute to healthy relationships, emotional well-being, and self-respect.

Workshops may address:

  • What healthy boundaries look like

  • Recognizing unhealthy relationship patterns

  • Setting and communicating boundaries

  • Guilt and boundary-setting

  • People-pleasing

  • Assertive communication

  • Respect and reciprocity

  • Maintaining boundaries in difficult relationships

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Self-Compassion & Mental Wellness

Participants learn practical strategies for developing a healthier relationship with themselves while navigating stress, change, and everyday challenges.

Topics may include:

  • Self-compassion

  • Self-talk

  • Perfectionism

  • Managing unrealistic expectations

  • Emotional wellness

  • Stress management

  • Building resilience

  • Creating sustainable self-care practices

Customized Trainings

Don't see exactly what you're looking for?

We can work with your organization to develop a training around a specific need.

Customized topics may include:

  • Trauma and the workplace

  • Supporting employees after a traumatic event

  • Secondary trauma and compassion fatigue

  • Burnout prevention

  • Trauma and movement

  • Trauma and the body

  • Grief in the workplace

  • Supporting survivors of domestic violence

  • Emotional regulation for helping professionals

  • Boundaries for professionals

  • Self-care for therapists and helping professionals

  • Resilience and recovery

  • Mental wellness

  • And more

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Email: danahicks@thoughtwellcounseling.com
Phone: 856-315-0410

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