These workshops are educational spaces — grounded, paced, and designed for people who want to understand something more clearly; where difficult material can be approached at a pace that doesn't require anything from you except your presence.
Fundamentals of Complex Trauma
An Online Workshop for Women
This workshop emerged from a simple and sincere recognition:
It is the kind of space and information I wish had existed earlier in my life.
Not because it would have fixed everything. Not because it would have removed pain or confusion. But because it would have helped me understand what was happening in me with more clarity, less shame, and greater orientation.
Over the years, I've become increasingly interested in creating spaces around trauma that are paced, grounded, educational, and ethically attentive — spaces that help people understand adaptation, survival, relationship, stress, and the nervous system without collapsing into performance, dependency, emotional extraction, or simplified healing narratives.
This workshop is an opportunity to explore complex trauma as a long-arc human experience shaped through relationship, adaptation, stress, survival, and the nervous system over time.
This workshop is an opportunity to explore those patterns with greater understanding, context, and care.
Together, we'll explore:
Complex trauma and nervous-system adaptation
Survival responses and relational patterning
Shame, coping, and protection
Safety, pacing, and discernment
The relationship between stress and the body
Ways of working more gently and intentionally with overwhelm, activation, and shutdown
This will be a paced educational and reflective space. No one will be required to share personal experiences.
This may resonate if you:
often feel responsible for managing the emotional needs of others
find it difficult to fully relax, even when nothing is actively wrong
experience cycles of overwhelm and shutdown
feel hypervigilant in relationships or unfamiliar environments
carry a sense of shame that's difficult to locate or explain
are curious about how early experiences may still be shaping your nervous system and daily life
want a grounded, non-pathologizing framework for understanding what you've lived through
A note on fit:
This workshop is intended for survivors of complex trauma — people who are living with its effects personally, not professionals attending for training or clinical development purposes.
It is designed with newcomers in mind. If you have never had language for what you've carried, or have only recently begun to understand your own history through a trauma lens, this room was built for you. Those with more experience in this territory are equally welcome — the material is foundational, and foundational work bears returning to.
This workshop is educational in nature and may not be the right fit for those seeking crisis support, emergency mental health care, or intensive trauma processing. Participants are encouraged to attend from a place where they are able to care for themselves during and after the workshop.
Details
Thursday, May 28
5:30–7:00 PM Pacific
Live Online
Limited to 24 participants
$33 registration
A limited number of scholarship spots are available. If cost is a barrier, no application needed—email me directly.
Please register using the same email address you plan to join with. This is a contained room, not an open link. Registration is required and space is intentionally limited..
Fundamentals of Complex Trauma
An Online Workshop for Men
Often, in my experience, men who've experienced complex trauma don't call it that.
Too often I hear men call it being fine.
They describe being driven, self-reliant, hard to read. They notice they're quick to anger in ways that surprise them. That they can't fully rest, even when nothing is wrong. That relationships are harder than they should be — not dramatically, just persistently. That something is always slightly off, without a clear name for it.
Some have a sense that what happened to them when they were younger shaped them in ways they've never fully understood. Others aren't sure anything significant happened at all — just that they've always been this way.
Complex trauma doesn't require a single dramatic event. It develops over time, often within families, relationships, or environments where safety, consistency, or emotional protection were unreliable. And it doesn't always look like distress. Often it looks like competence, self-sufficiency, and the ability to keep moving no matter what.
This workshop is an opportunity to understand what the nervous system actually does under those conditions — and why the patterns you carry make sense.
Fundamentals of Complex Trauma is a grounded educational space for men who want to better understand how chronic stress and relational experience shape the nervous system over time, and what it means to begin orienting toward something different.
We'll explore:
What complex trauma is, and how it differs from a single incident
How the nervous system responds to chronic stress and threat
Why survival patterns form — and why they are intelligent, not defective
How shame operates, and how it tends to present in men
The difference between knowing you're safe and the body registering safety
ways of working more intentionally with stress, overwhelm, anger, and shutdown
This is an educational and reflective space. You will not be asked to share personal experiences. There are no breakouts, no processing exercises, no pressure to perform anything. Participation looks however it needs to look for you.
This may resonate if you:
find it difficult to fully rest, even when nothing is actively wrong
have a short fuse that sometimes surprises you
rely on work, achievement, or staying busy to feel okay
find intimacy or vulnerability difficult to navigate, even with people you trust
carry a persistent sense that something is off without being able to name it
have wondered whether what happened to you earlier in life is still shaping how you operate
are curious about the nervous system and why you are the way you are — without needing to call it anything in particular
A note on fit:
This workshop is intended for men living with the long-term effects of complex trauma personally, not professionals attending for clinical training or professional development.
It is designed with newcomers in mind. If you have never had language for what you've carried, or aren't sure whether what you've experienced counts, this room was built for you. Those with more experience in this territory are equally welcome — foundational material bears returning to.
This workshop may not be the right fit for those currently seeking crisis support, intensive trauma processing, or emergency mental health care. Participants are encouraged to attend from a place where they're able to tend to themselves during and after the session.
Details
Date to be announced
5:30–7:00 PM Pacific
Live online
Limited to 16 participants
$33 registration
A limited number of scholarship spots are available. If cost is a barrier, no application needed—email me directly.
Please register using the same email address you plan to join with. This is a contained room, not an open link. Registration is required and space is intentionally limited.
Complex Trauma and Psychedelics:
A Grounded Introduction
An Online Workshop — Open to All
Something has shifted in how people talk about psychedelics and trauma. You've probably noticed it. The research, the headlines, the friends who've had experiences, the practitioners offering ceremonies and sessions and integration programs. There is real signal in all of it. There is also a great deal of noise.
If you've found yourself curious — genuinely curious, not converted — you're in the right place.
This workshop is for people who want to understand the relationship between complex trauma and psychedelic experiences before they decide anything. Not to be sold on it. Not to be talked out of it. To understand it clearly enough to make a discerning decision about whether it belongs in their own path, and if so, how.
Complex trauma and psychedelics have a specific relationship — one that is neither as simple as psychedelics heal trauma nor as simple as psychedelics are dangerous for trauma survivors. The reality is more nuanced, more interesting, and more important to understand than either headline suggests.
Psychedelic experiences can open territory that other work hasn't reached. They can also activate material that, without preparation and integration, becomes more difficult to hold rather than less. The difference between those two outcomes is not luck. It is context, pacing, discernment, and the quality of support around the experience.
This workshop is an introduction to that context.
We'll explore:
What complex trauma is and why it matters in a psychedelic context
How the nervous system responds to psychedelic experiences — and why that response is different for people carrying complex trauma
What preparation actually means, and why it is not optional
What happens during a session — what to expect, what to watch for, what good support looks like
What integration is, how long it takes, and what it asks of you
How to evaluate a practitioner, a container, and whether a particular offering is safe
The regulatory landscape — Oregon and beyond — and what it means for access and safety
This is an educational and reflective space. You will not be asked to share personal experiences. There is no pressure to disclose, decide, or commit to anything.
This may resonate if you:
are curious about psychedelics and trauma but want to understand before you do anything
have had a psychedelic experience that brought up difficult material and are still making sense of it
are considering psychedelic work and want a grounded, honest framework for evaluating it
have been in healing spaces that felt pressured, chaotic, or unsafe — and want to understand why, and what the alternative looks like
are a practitioner, therapist, or supporter of someone navigating this territory
are simply tired of both the hype and the fear, and want a room where neither is driving
A note on fit:
This workshop is educational in nature. It is not a preparation session, a facilitation, or a substitute for individualized support. It will not tell you whether psychedelic work is right for you — that is a decision that belongs to you, ideally in conversation with someone who knows your history.
This may not be the right fit for those currently in acute crisis or seeking emergency mental health support. Participants are encouraged to attend from a place where they are able to tend to themselves during and after the session.
Details
Date to be announced
5:30–7:00 PM Pacific
Live online
Limited to 24 participants
$33
A limited number of scholarship spots are available. If cost is a barrier, no application needed—email me directly.
Please register using the same email address you plan to join with. This is a contained room, not an open link. Registration is required and space is intentionally limited..