Caelan Kuban, LMSW, CTC-S
TLC Program Director and Certified Trainer

Caelan Kuban is the Program Director and Clinical Consultant at the National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children. She provides short-term trauma intervention and assessment for children and adolescents, conducts local and national trainings and presentations and assists with community outreach for trauma-related incidents. Caelan has coordinated and completed two evidence-based research studies; Children of Today with at-risk school-aged children in Taylor, Michigan and Restoring Hope and Resiliency with adjudicated youth in Ohio and Georgia. Both studies showed outstanding, statistically significant results across trauma subscales and mental health categories. Caelan is the author of “Zero to Three: A Handbook of Trauma Interventions,” “One Minute Trauma Interventions,” “A Time for Resilience,” and numerous other articles, chapters and publications. Caelan is currently pursuing a Doctorate of Clinical Psychology.

Cae presents the following courses:

Children of Trauma

This is the first of three TLC core courses that will lay the foundation to help you understand the differences between grief and trauma and to see trauma as an experience rather than a diagnostic category. Learn how to become a “witness” to a child’s traumatic experience to best appreciate the intensity of the experience and the needs of the child; to see what he now sees as he looks at himself and the world around him. Video-taped interviews will demonstrate how TLC’s evidence-based, structured sensory intervention process brings children relief from the terror of their traumatic experiences. This structured process is used in schools and agencies across the country and has been proven, via research, to reduce trauma-specific reactions across all three major sub-categories. Session objectives.

Structured Sensory Interventions

This is the second of the three TLC core courses. You will learn trauma-specific intervention tasks and techniques as well as see them demonstrated. This is a practice day. The presenter engages attendees in an encapsulated demonstration of the major sensory structured processes. Attendees will also participate in additional activities and, by days end, will feel comfortable using any of the TLC intervention programs. A brief presentation of the TLC evidence-based research and outcome will support the value of TLC’s structured sensory programs in schools and agencies. Session objectives.

Trauma Informed Assessment and Practice

Didactic presentation and comprehensive child and adolescent case examples provide participants with the framework and support for using trauma informed and strength based assessment to best develop and implement trauma informed practices to enhance resilience and posttraumatic growth when moving children and adolescents from victim to survivor to thriver. Also provides several trauma informed examples of intervention strategies to use with children and adolescents based upon assessment outcomes. Also available online.

Zero to Three Trauma Interventions

This course will provide you with the background and tools needed to work with infants and toddlers and their caregivers after they have experienced a traumatic situation. You will learn how to educate parents, facilitate secure attachments and reduce arousal reactions so that healing can occur.  Also available online.