Waxwing Psychotherapy

04/17/2024

TRAUMA ENGAGED TRAINING: Implementing Parts Work with Chelsey Fjeldheim, LCSW

In this 90-minute workshop with Chelsey Fjeldheim, you'll embark on a profound inner journey. Together, we'll reconnect with your inner child, heal emotional wounds, and awaken your inner wisdom. This transformative experience uncovers layers of self-awareness and promotes self-compassion. As you come to understand yourself, you'll gain valuable tools to guide your clients on a similar path of self-discovery.

Join Chelsey and our other fabulous speakers for the next Trauma Engaged Training on April 29th in Kalispell. Visit traumaengaged.com for more information and to register.

04/01/2024

TRAUMA ENGAGED TRAINING: Shame Creative Experiential with Sara Stone NCC, LCPC

Sara Stone (Mind Over Matter Coaching & Counseling), CALC, NCC, LCPC (she/her) is the lead clinician at Mind Over Matter in Bigfork, Montana. At her private practice, Sara is known for her casual, but informed, approach to connecting with and holding space for those impacted by trauma at their core. You can find her offering her clients a hot cup of tea, walking around barefoot, and ready to “lean in” and meet clients right where they are. Sara allows clients to see her authentic, clinical and community, self which invites them into a space where they can be brave and eventually (hopefully)…fully express themselves as well.

For a decade Sara has been on a journey to improve access to quality, trauma engaged care in rural Montana. Sara began by founding a school-based, NBCC funded, mental health counseling program giving therapy access to a hundred, rural school children. Sara also has developed and hosted a community connect group which gives a safe meeting space to those who are isolated and need connection to thrive. Most recently she has co-facilitated The Unfolding trauma retreats which focus on whole body healing, parts exploration, and creative expression as a safe way to “tune in” to the wounds of trauma as well as internal motivation.

To continue on her mission, Sara offers internship oversight, clinical supervision, and eventually EMDR consult groups to help budding, trauma focused practitioners build their private practice dreams in rural Montana

03/21/2024

TRAUMA ENGAGED TRAINING: Building Clinical Identity, Intake, Parts Work, and Shame. Join us on April 29th in Kalispell at First Presbyterian Church for this special all day training.

Camille Deitz is one of our many knowledgable speakers and is speaking to unsticking toxic shame.

Shame is sticky and can derail the trauma healing process keeping clients stuck in a strongly wired pattern of self loathing. In this 80-minute interactive presentation, participants will explore shame as a survival response and walk away with ready-to-apply strategies that disrupt the shame cycle, and allow clients to begin processing overwhelming feelings safely. Suitable for those just starting out in the counseling field as well as seasoned therapists, this offering draws on the work of Jaina Fisher, Peter Levine, Robin Shapiro, as well as the presenter’s own life experiences of working with shame from the inside out

11/09/2023

Have you registered?

Sara Stone, our lead clinician, is so honored to be presenting with an amazingly talented group of local leaders in the trauma industry on improving business practices, addressing trauma and shame, and helping clients see (and feel) results of their trauma work! If you are a mental health provider, this training is for you! Trauma Engaged Montana will take place Monday April 29, 2024 in downtown Kalispell, MT with an off-site lunch (see the links below for additional details). If you aren't a provider, share with your favorite provider who can benefit from these offerings AND stay tuned for upcoming trauma trainings for professionals, healthcare workers, clients battling trauma and the people who love them. We are on a mission to make trauma trainings and knowledge more accessible, engaging and effective in Western Montana.

Registration is now open! Sign up NOW to reserve your spot...

Trauma Engaged Kalispell Facebook Event (follow for updates): https://facebook.com/events/s/building-clinical-identity-int/1302149607106783/

Register for Trauma Engaged Kalispell directly HERE: https://traumaengaged.com/upcoming-events

Grad Students/Provisional Licensees/Those in need of financial assistance- Please message a presenter for a special offer while you are in school or just getting started on this journey.

Chelsey Fjeldheim Courage Speaks Counseling
Samuel Ore & Callie Morris of Waxwing Psychotherapy
Camille Deitz Rising Sun Wellness
Sara Stone Mind Over Matter Coaching & Counseling

07/23/2023

Have you registered yet? traumaengaged.com!

SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT: Dr. Emily Sallee (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Counseling at the University of Montana as well as the Executive Director of the Montana Safe Schools Center housed at UM. Emily’s experiences as a professional school counselor led to her drive in training future school and clinical counselors in the higher education setting. Emily engages in professional advocacy by serving on the MSCA Board of Directors as Board Chair and in various other roles throughout the state. Her research interests include adolescent suicidality and non-suicidal self-injury, school violence and prevention, and advocacy for the role of professional school counselors. Emily is also the part-time school counselor at a K-8 frontier school and has a

small clinical practice working with youth. While other people’s kiddos tend to be easier to work with, Emily has three of her own to wrangle, in addition to a growing menagerie and ever-increasing lists of books to read, foods to eat, and trails to run. Learn more about Emily: https://www.umt.edu/education/about/people/coun.php?ID=6317

07/18/2023

Have you reserved your spot? You can register at traumaengaged.com!

About Dr. Melissa Neff:
Dr. Neff (she/her) is a clinical psychologist, educator, speaker, and trainer based out of Missoula, MT. She has been in private practice since 2010.
For more than 10 years, Dr. Neff specialized in conducting psychological evaluations for children and adults. She is an expert in the assessment of ADHD, anxiety, trauma, nonverbal learning disorder, and Autism. Dr. Neff also has expertise in diagnosing, consulting, and providing education and training on the subject of Pathological Demand Avoidance, an atypical subtype of Autism. She was featured as the first guest on the Tilt! Parenting podcast to discuss PDA as a form of neurodivergence (Tilt Podcast on PDA).

Dr. Neff is known for her strengths-based and relational style, her passion for helping her clients to grow and thrive, and for providing ethical and compassionate care. She is known for seeing clients from a different perspective - from a holistic (mind/body), out-of-the-box, intuitive viewpoint that is based in a more humanistic, multimodal approach than the traditional medical model.

The current focus of Dr. Neff’s practice is neurofeedback. Neurofeedback is a mind-body treatment aimed at regulating brain waves and decreasing cognitive, behavioral, emotional, social, and sensory dysregulation.

06/30/2023

Please join us on July 31st for an all day training with a focus on trauma, dissociation and resiliency. You can register now at traumaengaged.com.

Learn more about Andy:

Andrew R. Laue, LCSW (he/him) is a psychotherapist in private practice in Missoula and Polson, Montana. In addition to the clinical work he does with individuals, couples and families, he supervises 30 psychotherapists in the Western Montana region. He is the chief trainer for the National Association of Social Workers Montana Chapter’s course in Clinical Supervision. In 2017, he won a National County Association award for his Secondary Trauma Group work with the Missoula County Attorney’s office.

He is passionate about creating sustainability for human service professionals through the process of identifying secondary trauma that occurs from the intensity of human service work. He consults with many agencies about the delivery and complexity of mental health practice. These include First Step Missoula at St. Patrick’s Hospital, Partnership for Children, Inter Mountain Mental Health Center, Partnership Health Center, and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Social Services Department.



A leader in the LGBT community in Montana, Andrew has developed cutting edge interventions for diverse groups including his HIV prevention work with the MSM and IDU population, for which he won the Governor’s Award for HIV Prevention in 2003. A decade ago he was part of the development of the award-winning documentary film, Red Without Blue (2007) which has become a founding document in the search for the equitable treatment of transgender people. He resides on the Flathead Reservation in rural Montana, and is passionate in his commitment to serve the Native American population in this region.

06/11/2023

We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Jamie Marich as one of our speakers for this event on July 31st! For more about Jamie you can visit drjamiemarich.com.

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