Trauma and Self-Forgiveness

Nicole Klasey, Psy.D.

Training Description

When youth experience trauma they may experience high amounts of guilt and shame. They may even blame themselves for what their abuse. This training will focus on an important aspect of one’s healing journey – self-forgiveness. You will learn why self-forgiveness is important (especially for foster youth who have experienced enough trauma to be removed from their homes) and how to support youth with forgiving themselves.

Learning Objectives

·  Participants will be able to define self-forgiveness.

·  Participants will be able to identify at least one strategy to support youth/transitional age youth with self-forgiveness.

· Participants will be able to identity at least one benefit of self-forgiveness.

Agenda

9:00-9:15am Welcome and introductions

9:15-10:45am Trauma and the need for self-forgiveness

10:45-11:00am Break

11:00am-12:45pm Self-forgiveness strategies

12:45-1:00pm Closing and evals

Meet Our Trainer

Nicole Klasey is a clinical psychologist who has worked with trauma survivors for 14 years. She currently consults with agencies on trauma-informed care, programming for commercially sexually exploited youth, vicarious trauma, and leadership development. Nicole has been training multidisciplinary audiences on trauma-related topics since 2015 and provides guest lectures at local universities on human trafficking.

This course meets the qualifications for (3.75) BBS CEUs for LCSWs and MFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences & is provided by Fred Finch Youth Center, CAMFT Provider #045295.