Trauma Resiliency Training

Designed for
Trauma-exposed Professionals

Trauma-exposed professionals are highly trained individuals working in both military and public safety roles that include, but are not limited to, first responders, dispatchers, search and rescue specialists and others. The nature of trauma-exposed professional work necessitates ongoing, repeated, and serial exposures to traumatic events where individuals perform their duties according to current best practices and guidelines in their chosen professions (e.g., military, police, firefighter, paramedic etc.).

Despite having extensive and intensely focused training in many facets of the job, one area that trauma-exposed professionals do not tend to receive adequate training in is in recognizing, managing, and addressing the common and predictable effects of exposure to traumatic events. The Trauma Resiliency Training (TRT) program, developed at the University of Victoria, fills this gap in professional training for trauma exposed workers and organizations.

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Benefits to taking our courses:

  • Occupational
    Awareness Training

    Through our unique courses, healthcare professionals will learn about uniformed service personnel culture thereby enhancing their effectiveness in providing culturally competent services for uniformed service personnel.

  • Meet Our
    Incredible Partners

    Our courses have been developed in partnership with:

    • First Responder Health

    • Wayfound Group

    • Wounded Warriors

    • Circadian Rhythms and Sleep

  • Uniformed Service
    Personnel Resources

    We have partnered with uniformed service personnel stakeholder groups and subject matter experts to develop courses designed specifically for you.

    Our courses are designed specifically to support uniformed service personnel.

Meet Our Instructors

Dr. Tim Black

National Clinical Director

Dr. Black has been a trauma and group counselling specialist, educator, clinician, researcher, and program developer for over 20 years. In the first part of his career as a tenured Associate Professor of Counselling Psychology in one of the top counselling psychology graduate programs in Canada, Tim taught, published, and conducted research focused on Trauma Exposed Professionals (TExP).

He has worked as a community-engaged researcher/practitioner beyond the halls of academia with Veteran and First Responder communities, local and national organizations, and has co-developed multiple national programs for TExP’s and their families (TExFam). Tim now serves as Wounded Warriors Canada’s National Clinical Director.

Alex Sterling MA, RCC

Instructor

Alex Sterling MA, RCC is a Senior Associate Clinician with Wounded Warriors Canada, specializing in clinical work with Trauma Exposed Professionals, and working extensively in promoting trauma informed work environments across Canada.

She has co-developed multiple, nationally delivered programs including WWC’s TRT, TRT-L and Trauma Resiliency Programs (TRP1 and TRP2) and has trained trauma clinicians internationally to deliver the WWC COPE program.

Claudine Barrette

Instructor

Claudine Barrette est une psychologue clinicienne qui a beaucoup travaillé auprès de patients ayant subi un traumatisme pendant plus de deux décennies. Elle possède une vaste expérience auprès des membres des Forces armées canadiennes, de leurs conjoints et des membres de leur famille. Elle fait preuve de compétence culturelle dans les questions liées aux militaires et aux anciens combattants et connaît parfaitement les particularités des traumatismes liés au stress opérationnel ainsi que leurs profondes répercussions sur le militaire touché et son proche.

Claudine est la conseillère co-clinique de Wounded Warriors Canada. Elle a co-développé des programmes innovants, notamment le programme de résilience des conjoints de WWC et le programme de conjoints survivants de WWC. Elle est également clinicienne de formation principale pour le programme WWC Couples Overcoming PTSD Every Day (COPE), le tout premier programme de conseil aux couples en groupe pour les anciens combattants et leurs conjoints, et le programme de résilience aux traumatismes (TRP1 et TRP2). Elle a formé bon nombre de la prochaine génération de cliniciens COPE et TRP dans les régions de l’Est du Canada.

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