IS IT TIME FOR YOU TO SPECIALIZE IN TREATING COMPLEX FAMILIES?

THE COURAGEOUS WAY - INTERGENERATIONAL TRAUMA PROGRAM

You keep saying you'll take the next step. Become the trauma specialist who truly transforms lives. Equip yourself to break the cycles of trauma for individuals, children, and families. There’s no better time than now.

Our proven, neuroscience-backed Intergenerational Trauma Program offers you certification, hands-on tools, and confidence to tackle complex trauma cases. Choose between a self-paced option or join a live cohort—every piece you need to gain expertise, grow your practice, and bring lasting change is included!

WELCOME

Hey, I'm Dr. Barbara

I remembering working with families impacted by intergenerational trauma and feeling like I was running in circles because of the complexity of the difficulties they experienced.

I searched and searched for an intervention that was streamlined and designed for treating intergenerational trauma. I found one program but it wasn't based on current relational neuroscience or evidence-based attachment interventions.

Over the next 10 years, I took a deep dive into the integration of Polyvagal Theory, relational neuroscience, child development, and contextual family therapy. In 2021, I started to formally develop The Courageous Way - Intergenerational trauma program. The entire training program was completed in 2022.

Now it is available to you! Are you ready to specialize your practice with complex families?

Here is what you'll get in The Courageous Way

Intergenerational Trauma Program:

01:

Three phase intervention system

Phase 1 is an intensive parent coaching program that calms the chaos in the family, decreases relational dysregulation, and increases earned secure attachment.

Phase 2 addresses the caregiver's unresolved trauma in order to improve their capacity for coregulation and attachment.

Phase 3 provides intervention for the child or teen to treat their trauma while building improved connection and family resilience.

02:

Extensive Manuals & Workbooks

Extensive Facilitator's Guide with over 450 pages for developing the speciality in relational neuroscience, Polyvagal Theory, Child Development, and Family Resilience. Strategies for delivering both individual and group interventions are also provided.

Intake and Referral Forms to identify therapy goals and treatment recommendations.

Five Participant's Manuals that provide the client with hands on activities to understand the concepts and apply them to their lives for each phase of the therapy process. These workbooks have a total of over 300+ pages of reproducible worksheets with beautifully designed, professional graphics.

03: Business and Marketing Strategies

Expert marketing strategies to elevate your practice as a specialty services which also reduces burnout. Strategies to create an extra stream of revenue by providing highly specialized and sought after services for working with complicated families.

Materials to provide psychoeducation to referral sources regarding Intergenerational Trauma Therapy and increase referrals.

Business strategies to increase the therapist's hourly rate by offering group services and workshops while also providing cost savings to referral sources and reduces waiting lists. This is a WIN-WIN for both the therapist and referral sources!

What Therapists Have to Say:

I have consulted with Barbara to help me bring the Polyvagal Theory and the Safe and Sound Protocol into my private practice. I’ve been working with trauma my whole career (30 plus years) and I know a solid, and approachable professional when I meet one! Her enthusiasm and passion for her work is contagious . After I watched one of her recent videos I told her she reminds me of everyone’s favorite teacher . If you have a chance to work with her, don’t pass it up.

-Carol J S Nickerson, LICSW, CFT

Why You Can No Longer Wait to Develop These Skills

  • Therapists are experiencing extreme levels of burnout

    from the current level of need for therapy services and trauma.

  • Effective and efficient interventions for complicated cases are required to feel confident and keep going with record high demands for services.

  • Improves client engagement, rentention in therapy, and outcomes.

  • This assessment and intervention system supports the therapist to CONNECT with families in a way that increases engagement and commitment to therapy.

  • Frustration with complicated cases is common

    if there isn't a process and intervention strategy to address common pitfalls when working with intergenerational therapy.

  • High turn over rates in therapist caseloads causes more

    burnout and a lack of confidence.

  • Therapists struggling with burnout, high client turnover, and frustration feel less effective and consider leaving the profession due to their dissatisfaction.

  • Therapists who leave the profession may have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for their education, certifications, and trainings. Leaving your education behind is a costly lesson when there is a better solution!

  • Piecing together information from books, courses, and trainings is cumbersome and rarely results in a streamlined, efficient process or framework.

  • Nagging self-doubt and imposter syndrome plagues therapists. It leads to greater attempts to learn more and more skills...and also more burnout!

  • After years of shutting down and feeling burned out, therapists can become frustrated with clients or complicated families.

The Courageous Way

Intergenerational Trauma Program

Introducing...

The Courageous Way - Intergenerational Trauma Program

Specialty training program for therapists to effectively treat intergenerational trauma using a three-phase intervention for building intergenerational resilience in complex families. Interventions based on a unique integration of Polyvagal Theory, relational neuroscience, child development, and family resilience. Client outcomes include improved regulation across the family system by enhancing self-regulation in the parent and coregulation with the child. Increased earned secure attachment and attention to child development improve the parent-child relationship and family mental health. Ultimately, there is greater connection between family members and increased family resilience through harnessing the strengths of previous generations.

Phase One:

Polyvagal Parent Coaching Intervention

Calm the family nervous system through parent coaching. This phase provides safety and stabilization in the family system. Interventions are based on relational neuroscience, Polyvagal Theory, and child/teen development. The skills also begin to address the parent's unresolved trauma by increasing capacity for self-regulation.

Phase Two:

Complex Trauma Intervention for the Parent

Unresolved complex trauma in the caregiver is addressed through a Polyvagal framework. The intervention is a six step process designed to address neuroception and develop a resilience based narrative. When the caregiver's trauma is resolved, there is greater capacity to be effective and present with their children or teens.

Phase Three:

Child & Teen Trauma Intervention & Building Family Resilience

When the caregiver has greater effectiveness in parenting, the child or teen's trauma is addressed in the context of intergenerational resilience. Interventions are based on developmental stages and additional strategies for caregivers are also included. Interventions for building resilience withing the family system are also included.

By the end of this you will...

Have access to a three phase intervention system
that calms the chaos in the family, addresses the caregiver's unresolved trauma, and addresses the children/teens trauma all while building family resilience.

Be proficient in using intake & referral forms and an assessment system to determine the intergenerational impacts on the therapy process, parent-child relationship, and the child or teen.

Have an extra stream of revenue by providing highly specialized and sought after services for working with complicated families. Offer group programs and workshops to provide cost savings to referral sources...while increasing therapist's income. (WIN-WIN!)

Extensive Facilitator's Guide
with over 450 pages for delivering both individual and group interventions. Five different Participant's Manuals for each phase of the therapy process with a total of over 300+ pages of reproducible worksheets with beautifully designed, professional graphics.

Access to The Courageous Way - Intergenerational Trauma Program with access to the therapist training videos, group materials & handouts, marketing templates accessible 24/7 from any device. 

Monthly Live Group Q&A in the private Facebook group with Dr. Woods. Monthly group consultation meetings to review cases and get support. ​Monthly guest expert or specialty trainings on topics relevant to trauma & resilience. (Coming Soon!)

Payment Plan

  • Lifetime access to the course materials including videos, manuals, and worksheets.

  • Monthly consultation groups

  • Monthly live Q & A sessions

  • Five Domains of Intergenerational Trauma Impacts for assessing the impact on individuals and families.

One Payment

  • Lifetime access to the course materials including videos, manuals, and worksheets.

  • Monthly consultation groups

  • Monthly live Q & A sessions

  • Five Domains of Intergenerational Trauma Impacts for assessing the impact on individuals and families.

  • One hour consultation with Dr. Woods to support implementation in your practice.

Save over $300 by paying in full and receive a bonus implementation session valued at $497.

INDIGENOUS LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We recognize that Manitoba is on the Treaty One Territory and ancestral lands of the Anishinaabeg, Anishininewuk, Dakota Oyate, Denesuline and Nehethowuk peoples. We acknowledge Manitoba is located on the Homeland of the Red River Métis. We acknowledge northern Manitoba includes lands that were and are the ancestral lands of the Inuit. We respect the spirit and intent of Treaties and Treaty Making and remain committed to working in partnership with First Nations, Inuit and Métis people in the spirit of truth, reconciliation and collaboration.