I help people move from tolerance to advocacy by becoming trauma informed
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Hello, Im Carla,
I’m on a mission to make the world a more empathetic and resilient place. Our core focus is on intergenerational trauma, youth mental health, and caregiving.
We have a unique approach – blending evidence-based practices with personal experiences. Our standout product is ‘My Big Notebook,’ an award-winning children’s workbook that empowers young minds. It’s a vital tool in our mission to foster understanding, healing, and personal growth in families, organizations, and caregivers.
But that’s not all. We also deliver inspirational keynotes, interactive workshops, and valuable consulting services.
This is a movement. We’re dedicated to making a difference and fostering change in critical areas. So, if you’re looking to join us on this transformative journey towards a more compassionate world, let’s connect. Together, we can inspire empathy, resilience, and healing.
Mental Health Consulting
Learn how to better serve survivors of trauma
Your Chief Healing Officer
We are now offering consulting services to individuals, research, corporations, and non-profit organizations, and more!
Topics include:
- Trauma
- Intergenerational Trauma
- Mental Health
- Suicide Prevention
- Youth & Mental Health
- Care for Caregivers
Talks
Available in both keynote and workshop formats
From Tolerance to Advocacy
How Being Trauma Informed
Changes Lives
Carla shares her lived experience as the mother of a special needs child to provide insight into how trauma impacts brain and physical development. Her expertise helps administrators, educators, caregivers and others better understand why learning and interactions may be different for someone who experienced extensive trauma.
With over 10 years of first hand experience and continuous training, Carla is that compassionate companion who helps people become trauma informed. It takes just one loving advocate to change the trajectory of a child’s life. Instead of tolerating, we move through awareness and acceptance to advocacy.
Attendees will leave the session enlightened with an action plan advocating for self and others.
Supporting A Child With Trauma
With over 10 years of intense. hands on experience, Carla walks you through the top 10 items that will help you help the child you love that has experienced trauma. The pandemic, racial and social injustice, family dynamics are just a few examples of stressors that have impacted our children over the last few years.
Carla has been leveraging her experience to help families maneuver through difficult circumstances and systems.
Attendees will leave the session with a toolkit of the top 10 things to help a caregiver of a child (or person) who has experienced trauma.
Care for Caregivers
After fighting for custody of her son for many years, Carla got custody and adopted her son. She was depleted in every way – emotionally, financially, spiritually, mentally and physically. She was over $100k in debt, 40 lbs overweight and pre-diabetic, as well as isolated and feeling misunderstood and desperate.
She developed her 4-step method for self care, which is our right and responsibility to ourselves. Carla is living proof that taking care of self can help move mountains for our loved ones. Attendees will leave the session with an action plan for taking the BEST care of oneself.
Attendees will leave the session with an actionable plan for real self care.
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