Live Training (Online and in-person)

Trauma Therapy + Coaching Working Together. A Case(s) Study

Therapists have long worked in isolation. The work is extremely rewarding and enriching, however therapists often carry many layers of mental health treatment alone.
  • Teacher
    Dr. Athena Phillips
  • Date
    September 17, 2026
  • Time
    12PM - 1PM PT
  • Format
    Online / In-person
  • CE Hours
    1.5
About This Live Training
Learning Objectives
Target Audience
Instructor

About This Live Training

Therapists have long worked in isolation. The work is extremely rewarding and enriching, however therapists often carry many layers of mental health treatment alone. All other healthcare professionals have support staff to whom they can share the components of their work that other professionals can assume. A Trauma Coach is uniquely poised to increase support to both the therapist and the client. Trauma Coaches can provide supportive bridge appointments when trauma is being processed, provide skill building supports, and accountability check-ins to support clients in behavioral change. Trauma coaches focus on the present and future in order to free up therapists to work through past trauma. Learn how to integrate trauma coaching and trauma therapy as an innovation designed to expand supports, shorten the time and cost associated with therapy, and resultantly increasing access to care for all.

Key Learning Objectives

  • Learn how to integrate Trauma Therapy + Trauma Coaching
  • Learn how utilizing both therapy + coaching together can decrease the overarching cost to the client while increasing the amount of support they receive.
  • Learn how Athena + her coaches worked together with shared clients and how coaching can be added to your practice.
  • Learn how to delineate roles designed to maintain scope of practice and safety for the client.
  • Learn how Trauma Coaches can increase support to therapists and clients alike.

Target Audience

Global audience of Therapists, Coaches, Social Workers, Social Entrepreneurs, aspiring trauma coaches, therapists aiming to add a coaching component or a coach to compliment their work.

Instructor

Athena Phillips
LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker
I completed my master's in social work from Portland State University, where I was the recipient of the Laurels Scholarship and graduated Magna Cum Laude. Following graduation, I worked as a medical social worker in the emergency department, medical floors and on an inpatient geriatric psychiatry unit. I started my private practice in 2007, which specialized in trauma and dissociative disorders. After five years of serving this population, the need for more holistic approaches to trauma that were safe and accessible to survivors became increasingly clear. In 2012 I started Integrative Trauma Treatment Center (ITTC), an outpatient mental health clinic housed in Portland, OR. ITTC offers continuing education which offers specialized trainings with a mission to include and elevate clinical voices from all over the world. My most recent endeavor was the launch of an online Trauma Coach Certification course that is designed to be globally accessible and culturally adaptable. This project was designed following trainings I facilitated in Rwanda that were an effort to provide a multicultural platform for clinicians to learn about other cultural lenses through which they could approach their work. My contribution in Rwanda extended to the development of mHub Rwanda, which is an outpatient mental health clinic that is run by Rwandans, for Rwandans. I continue to volunteer my services as a trauma consultant within the mHub community.

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