Master Your Disasters
Learn from a specialist in PTSD, relationship, and adjustment problems to help yourself AND to help family, friends, or clients understand and resolve distress from past events. All CAN learn to handle strong negative emotions without "self-medicating" or other numbing, denial, or suppression strategies. Understanding and working through these concepts has helped many people reduce the need for 3-6 months of therapy, though some later opt to pursue therapy or coaching to address positive pursuits and rebuild hurt or neglected relationships.
I changed careers in 2009 to pursue clinical psychology and combine up-to-date research and practice in trauma recovery with my rich history of faith-based mentoring and fascination with philosophy, theology, art, comedy and the messages we absorb and live by. Now I'm moving beyond the confines of American healthcare to share the knowledge I have sifted and integrated. A new life awaits you and your loved ones!
I didn't pursue my doctorate in Clinical Psychology until I was 39! Take advantage of my abundant later-life education and years of business and mentoring experience.
I trained at UCSD and Honolulu VA Medical Centers, and worked with military Veterans from 2014-2017 and 2019-2021, with an emphasis on PTSD from combat, sexual assault, and other interpersonal trauma.
My doctoral dissertation and subsequent hospital program improvement project demonstrated high success rate of a single-session 2-hour intervention for trauma recovery, even with people with psychosis or addictions.
Since my earliest clinical placement in 2012 I have been showing that there is no Pandora's Box to fear. It's more like a cluttered attic that many people can learn to help others with – and benefit in the process.
This is NOT for helping people currently living in actual danger or abuse. It is for helping grieve a loss and reduce vulnerability to unhealthy behaviors.
This Self-Help and Other-Help resource is NOT therapy. Nor is it limited to addressing a single trauma the way most trauma therapies are.
Help someone get back the wonderful internal resources that are currently being depleted by all the impacts of an unprocessed negative experience.
In the 1990s I worked in advertising and have kept my passion for extreme efficiency and directness. I loved the challenge of delivering life-changing ideas in minutes vs. 3-6 months!
Anyone who has been hurt! Or who is watching another's life spiral. Parents. Siblings. Cousins. Friends. Grandparents. Clergy. Therapists. Counselors. Social workers. Hairdressers. Barbers. Bartenders. So many more people! It's time to stop hoping specialists will arrive in time to help your loved ones. Just as CPR became a revolutionary intervention for lay people to intervene in emergencies, this course trains you to help yourself and people who are really struggling.
Access My Original Interactive Online Workbook (or PDF)
Minimal Theory. Maximum Exercises. Largely Self-Explanatory. Used with hundreds of people, with very large and sustained improvements.
The whole workbook can be completed with a suffering person in 2-3 hours.
Print a copy and mark it up with a pen as you go! This format can be very satisfying.
Access My Videos
Lessons are broken down into 7 modules with chapters ranging from 3 to 20 minutes. Videos are not required. They are for those who prefer hearing the rationale and demonstrated use of the exercises.
Next Live Master Classes
(Sat Feb 11)
Bundle rates follow this section, read all first!
2 Hours of Live Online Class (Sat Feb 11 from 12:30-2:30 Eastern)
Includes my Online Workbook and printable PDF for field use.
Only 10 Seats
Learn to identify if trauma is at the root of present-day problems, and which trauma(s) to target first.
Learn to motivate a person to stop fearing and do the necessary work.
Understanding the brain and the autonomic system.
Emotion processing.
Reducing overreactivity to memories, reminders, and anniversaries.
Rebalancing conscious and unconscious thinking.
Overcoming shame, guilt, anger, blame.
Eliminating haunting questions that play in a loop.
Recovering a healthy sense of self.
Planning for a future free of this burden.
2 Hours of Live Online Class (Sat Feb 11 from 3:30-5:30 Eastern)
Includes my Online Workbook and printable PDF for field use.
Delve deeper into typical difficulties encountered during the work of catching and challenging the conscious and unconscious thoughts, beliefs, impressions, perceptions, fears, and dreads that keep people stuck.
More time is also given to Q&A and troubleshooting complicated situations.
Bundle Rates
Workbook alone, or bundled with the Videos course, or all of those bundled with 4 hours of live online masterclasses!
4 Hours of Live Class (Sat Feb 11 from 12:30-5:30 Eastern with hour break)
My Online Workbook and printable PDF for field use.
3+ Hours of Step-by-Step Videos to serve as a refresher for 1 year.
Access 3+ Hours of Step-by-Step Videos for 1 year.
My Online Workbook and printable PDF for field use.
Go at your own pace.
My Online Workbook and printable PDF for field use.
Complete curriculum for trauma recovery.
Stop standing by while loved ones spiral downward.
Learn to recognize signs and intervene.
Sat March 4
Live Master Classes
These take place from 10:00am-12pm and 1:00-3:00 pm PACIFIC TIME.
2 Hours of Live Online Class (Sat March 4 from 10am-12pm PACIFIC TIME)
Includes my Online Workbook and printable PDF for field use.
Only 10 Seats
Learn to identify if trauma is at the root of present-day problems, and which trauma(s) to target first.
Learn to motivate a person to stop fearing and do the necessary work.
Understanding the brain and the autonomic system.
Emotion processing.
Reducing overreactivity to memories, reminders, and anniversaries.
Rebalancing conscious and unconscious thinking.
Overcoming shame, guilt, anger, blame.
Eliminating haunting questions that play in a loop.
Recovering a healthy sense of self.
Planning for a future free of this burden.
2 Hours of Live Online Class (Sat March 4 from 1:00-3:00 pm PACIFIC TIME)
Includes my Online Workbook and printable PDF for field use.
Delve deeper into typical difficulties encountered during the work of catching and challenging the conscious and unconscious thoughts, beliefs, impressions, perceptions, fears, and dreads that keep people stuck.
More time is also given to Q&A and troubleshooting complicated situations.
Finally put the past to rest!
