CONSULTATION +

TRAINING

Mariah’s consulting and training has been expansive and highly varied in both its content and the wide array of settings she has worked in. Her highly collaborative approach allows her to adapt and cater to the needs of any individual, group or system. For more than a decade Mariah has offered her trauma-informed care, systems change and capacity building services with transformative impacts and improved performance and service delivery. Examples of what she offers include:

  • Trainings + Workshops

  • Webinars

  • Professional Development

  • Continuing Education

  • Trauma-informed systems change + capacity building

  • Presentations

Consultation and coaching services are offered to individuals and organizations/clinics/agencies that are interested in increasing their capacity to work with individuals, families and groups with histories of complex trauma.

Mariah’s systems change work has focused on capacity-building to prevent and address the effects of violence and trauma within systems of all sizes. She has worked with individuals and teams at small local non-profit agencies and community clinics, to filmmaking teams, to large systems including school districts, healthcare systems, and the Department of Defense. Services may include the development of trauma-related training materials, toolkits, curricula, and assessment tools as well as offering training and coaching on topics that include trauma and trauma-informed care, mental health, vicarious trauma and self-care, and best practice implementation and systems change strategies.

Trainings are offered with the goal of meeting both community and agency needs. Topics can be tailored and developed upon request.

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Mariah’s work has allowed her to navigate significant challenges, improve system functioning, offer trauma-focused clinical and non-clinical trainings trainings, develop Communities of Practice, create and co-create training materials and products, and conduct assessments to improve team functioning and care delivery.

Mariah was a part of a team that developed and delivered the first ever primary violence prevention program for the Department of Defense (DOD) in collaboration with the American Institutes for Research and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Her attuned approach allows her to work with systems of all sizes and has brought her into relationship with community mental health agencies around the US to support trauma-informed (TI) care and transformational work, as well as with incredible filmmaking teams wishing to take a TI approach to their work.

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TRAINING + CONSULTATION FOR:

Schools + Higher Education

  • Mariah works with school systems and other educational systems to assist in trauma education, assessing capacity and identifying opportunities to improve system delivery, and to develop community-specific and culturally-responsive trauma-informed programs, policies and practices that support students, families, administrators, teachers and all school personnel.

    This can be done through training, workshops, professional development efforts, coaching and the creation of communities of practice. Becoming trauma-informed not only addresses the negative impacts of trauma, but provides greater opportunities to eliminate and transform practices and policies that cause harm within systems.

    Mariah has worked with individual school departments, administrators, entire school districts and institutions of higher education. She works to find ways to integrate TI practices in systems to ensure greater ease in implementation and to further bolster other programs, areas of priority and to align with other approaches.

Corporations + For-Profit Businesses

  • It can be challenging for some to imagine the relevance of trauma-informed practice in business and corporate settings, however many companies and leaders in have found the transformative impacts of taking a mental health and trauma-informed approach to management, human resources and service delivery. Employee retention and satisfaction improves as does morale, team cohesion and other key factors of team and business health. Mariah has offered trainings and consultation in a variety of sectors including consumer packaged goods, business consulting, finance, and marketing. Contact Mariah to explore how bringing trauma-informed practices into your work environment can make you a better leader and support a healthier work environment.

Fitness Industry

  • Through her work as Co-Founder and Co-Director of Trauma Informed Weight Lifting, Mariah and the TIWL leadership team offer consultation to gyms, coaches, trainers and other fitness professionals looking to make their spaces and work more inclusive and trauma-informed.

Mental Health Clinics + Social Service Agencies

  • In her work with mental health clinics and various social service agencies, Mariah offers trauma-informed assessment, consultation, coaching and training that are highly individualized for the needs of a system and community. She has worked with community mental health clinics, foster and adoption organizations and agencies, private mental health groups and other healthcare systems. Her work in these settings is highly engaging and well received.

Social Impact Space + Changemakers

  • Social and environmental changemakers are leading the charge around critically important issues such as justice, equity, inclusion, climate change and wellbeing. This work is transformative and necessary. And also can be highly stressful and has high rates of burnout, mental health issues and stress.

    Mariah works with changemakers, educators, leaders and other care providers to learn about trauma as well as how understanding trauma and implementing trauma-informed programs, policies and practices on the individual and systems level can result in radical change, decreased burnout and more effective work.

Non-Profit Organizations/NGOs

  • Many non-profit organizations engage in communities and with individuals who have been impacted by trauma and who are highly marginalized and oppressed. Mariah works with non-profit organizations in social and human services, mental health, advocacy, justice and more to offer customized, culturally-responsive and transformative trainings and consultation.

Filmmaking Industry

  • Mariah has worked with filmmakers, production companies, distribution companies, actors and crews when films contain or focus on traumatic stories and materials, as well as when trauma-impacted individuals are portrayed or interviewed/filmed. This work has involved trauma-informed considerations for storytelling and interviewing, how to support crew members exposed to traumatic material and stories, and ethical and responsible practices for marketing and distribution.

    In working across many different industries and disciplines, what is so remarkably shared is the humanity at the core of all that we do when we commit to be more trauma-informed, inclusive and responsive in our work. Every body has a nervous system. Every person has a story. And in connection and community we can connect with the experiences that are shared and common between us, exploring how this shared nervous system needs support, regulation, compassion and curiosity the same way any individual person needs and is deserving of. I hold it to be true that taking a trauma-informed approach to filmmaking benefits all involved - personnel and those whose stories are being told and shared.

Government

  • In her work with various government agencies, Mariah has provided consultation, training and technical assistance with a focus on capacity building around trauma knowledge and trauma informed practice. She has experience working with military agencies, public health systems, educational institutions and human and social service agencies.

Outdoor Industry

  • Mariah is an avid outdoorsperson and has seen firsthand both the healing powers of the outdoors as well as the trauma that is often experienced in outdoor communities. She has offered trainings and consultation to outdoor brands, nonprofits doing nature-based and adventure-based work and individuals doing healing work with others in the outdoors. If you or your organization would benefit from a deeper understanding of the impacts of trauma as well as how to support the healing of others who have experienced trauma in the outdoors (or look to nature and movement for healing and coping), connect with Mariah to learn more and explore opportunities to work together. Let’s get outside!