The Missing Blueprint: An Introduction Guide to Stabilizing Kids Before Trauma Reprocessing
A free one-hour lunch and learn for clinicians who work with kids
with Katie Honeywell, LCPC, LPC-MH, NCC
Katie Honeywell, LCPC, LPC-MH, NCC
Facilitator
A child who seems calm, compliant, or ready to talk is not always ready for trauma reprocessing. This hour is about how to tell the difference, and what needs to be in place first.
About This Training
You may have tools you like for working with kids and no clear picture of how they fit together. Treatment gets pieced together session by session, and interventions get researched one symptom at a time. The harder parts of the work, like caregiver involvement, regulation work, and readiness assessment, are easy to sidestep.
In this free one-hour training, Katie Honeywell introduces a blueprint of the stages of trauma treatment and the components of stabilization across the main domains of a child's life. You will leave with a sequence to work from, and a clearer sense of when a child is ready to move toward trauma processing and when it is not yet time.
A Sequence to Work From, in Place of a Symptom Checklist
Stabilization is often pictured as a long, separate list of prep and homework that has to be finished before the real therapy can start. This training treats it as the first stage of the work. Katie walks through what stabilization includes across the main domains of a child's life, what has to be available before moving on, and how to organize treatment so kids stay engaged and caregivers understand the process and buy into it.
What this hour makes possible
What you'll take away
- A research-supported blueprint of what trauma treatment looks like, stage by stage
- Clarity on what a child and family need in order to stabilize and move to the next stage of treatment
- Practical guidance and concepts for building skills in each component of stabilization, ready to use in your next session
- Confidence recognizing when a child is ready to move toward trauma processing, and when it is not yet time
What You'll Learn
This training is open to all mental health professionals who work with children. No EMDR training is required.
Does this sound familiar?
- You want to prepare young clients well for later trauma healing or reprocessing, in outpatient or inpatient settings
- You have tools you like and are not sure how they fit together into a sequence
- You feel overwhelmed or under-confident working with kids who have trauma histories
- You have been researching interventions one symptom at a time
- You find yourself piecing treatment together session by session
- You have been avoiding child clients, or you work with kids and find caregiver involvement or readiness assessment hard to bring in
This is a one-hour introduction, so it will not cover everything. If it sounds useful to you, we would be glad to have you there. If the timing does not work, no problem at all.
What's Included
Continuing Education Approvals
NBCC
Trauma Specialists Training Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7268. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Trauma Specialists Training Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. 1 Clock Hour.
APA
Trauma Specialists Training Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Trauma Specialists Training Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content. CE: 1 Credit
Trauma Specialists Training Institute, LLC maintains responsibility for all aspects of this program and its content.
Your Trainer
Katie Honeywell, LCPC, LPC-MH, NCC
Facilitator
Katie has been working as a licensed counselor for 10 years, providing counseling in inpatient and outpatient settings. Katie is a National Certified Counselor, an EMDRIA Certified Therapist, and an EMDRIA Approved Consultant. As a counselor, she enjoys working with children, adolescents, parents and adults. In relation to trauma, she has a special interest in parenting, attachment, dissociation, parts work, postpartum health and perinatal trauma. Katie's style of consultation is based in a nonjudgemental environment that highlights learning strategies to implement theory.
The people behind the work
A community of trauma specialists
Training here is warm, human-centered, and relational. You acquire and hone the skills to treat trauma effectively alongside clinicians who do this work every day, in a community that extends across our sister practices in Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania and keeps going after the training ends.
Register
There is no cost to attend. If the timing works for you, we would be glad to have you there.
Upcoming Dates
We don't have a public date on the calendar right now.
No upcoming dates scheduled
This training runs periodically. If you would like to know when it is offered next, we would be glad to tell you.
Wednesday, December 16, 2026, 12:00 to 1:00 PM Eastern
Live Virtual
Free
Frequently Asked Questions
Policies & Disclosures
Trauma Specialists Training Institute welcomes any clinician who is looking to offer the best trauma treatment you can to your clients. Our training environment is geared toward inclusivity and we welcome all ages, abilities, cultures, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, and religions.
We want to provide equal access to our training. If you are in need of any kind of accommodation to attend this training, please reach out to us so we can work with you to set up any accommodations needed. Contact info@traumaspecialiststraining.com.
Confidentiality Statement
All participant identifying information will be kept confidential upon registration of this training. Each participant can choose what name and identifying information to present on their Zoom screen.
Trauma Specialists Training Institute, LLC maintains responsibility for all aspects of this program and its content.
There is no known commercial support for this program.
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