Professional Education
What makes us different
Kim brings a warm and holistic approach to trauma-informed care in speech-language pathology that truly makes her stand out in several meaningful ways:
1. Personal Connection and Neurodivergent Insight
Kim openly shares her own neurodivergent journey as an AuDHD clinician, which brings a genuine understanding and empathy to her work. Her lived experience enriches her trauma-informed approach, adding a compassionate, neurodivergent-affirming perspective that many others may not emphasize as much.
2. Prioritizing Safety Over Symptoms
Kim highlights the importance of creating safe, supportive environments and relationships, beyond just focusing on symptom management. She aims to build spaces where clients and students feel comfortable to explore their communication without fear of judgment or pressure, encouraging autonomy and co-regulation instead of traditional deficit-based methods.
3. Viewing Language as a Tool for Healing and Empowerment
Instead of only targeting communication challenges caused by trauma, Kim sees language and speech as powerful avenues for healing, resilience, and affirming identity. Her approach connects trauma-informed care with social justice, cultural humility, and anti-ableist practices, fostering a more empowering journey for clients.
4. Compassionate Advocacy and Accessible Education
Kim has a talent for translating complex trauma theories into practical, easy-to-understand strategies for clinicians and families alike. Her blend of clinical expertise and trauma-sensitive communication coaching helps support growth and systemic change, making her guidance both approachable and impactful.
5. Building Community and Leading Thoughtfully
Active across various online platforms, Kim fosters welcoming communities for clinicians, teachers, other helping professions, parents, and neurodivergent individuals. She amplifies marginalized voices and champions intersectional, trauma-informed approaches that are truly tailored to neurodiverse populations—going beyond surface-level care to promote genuine understanding and inclusion.
TL;DR: Kim’s distinctive contribution lies in integrating trauma-informed principles with an authentic neurodivergent-affirming stance, emphasizing autonomy and relational safety. Her work is personal, innovative, and focused on empowering both professionals and clients, advancing social justice and creating a more inclusive, compassionate framework for healing.
Training topics
The purpose of our trainings is to help service providers, educators, and staff go from feeling confused, powerless, and ineffective to empowered by providing detailed, trauma-informed training and education so that they can develop efficacious relationships to build resiliency in their clients and themselves.
Examples of our training topics include:
“Trauma-informed 101” — how to get started on becoming trauma-aware.
Caring for yourself: Is it professional burnout, traumatic stress response, or both? And what can we do about that?
Neurodivergent-affirming communication services.
Neurodivergent culture: Difference vs. disorder version 2.0.
Trauma-informifying those “old” clinical tools (aka what do you do with that Listening Larry poster that teacher won’t take down?)
Unpacking the biggest barriers to TIC: Provider/caregiver mental health and implicit bias.
Each training includes:
Necessary background information to become trauma-sensitive (per the Missouri Model of Trauma-Informed Care).
Review of common, current strategies/treatment techniques that are trauma-informed.
Strategies to expand the individual and organizational trauma-informed toolbox.
Exercises and case studies to bridge new information to immediate implementation.
Trainings are currently being offered either in-person or virtually per timed packages (e.g., 60 minutes, 90 minutes, 120 minutes). Pricing is based on timed package as well as travel considerations for in-person. Packages can also be customized via consultation to fit any budget and/or time constraints.
Good stuff people say about Kim’s talks