Lori Gill, MACP
TLC Certified Trainer
Lori is a Certified Trauma Specialist who has been working with children, youth, and their families since 1999. She has experience working within various professional organizations that specialize in child and youth counseling. Lori’s more recent experience includes counseling in the post-secondary and adult populations focusing on mental health, addictions, and eating disorder treatment. In addition to maintaining a private practice, offering art and play-focused counseling, Lori also presents at public speaking events and workshops and teaches psychology at a local college. You can reach Lori at [email protected].
Lori is the instructor for many TLC online courses and also 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.
Suicide Intervention
This presentation will identify warning signs and high risk factors leading to suicidal attempts. Characteristics of potentially suicidal child/youth, specific interventions strategies and skills including legal responsibilities, assessment of risk and what is necessary to help prevent contagion following an actual completion. Develop specific intervention skills with survivors of suicide including organized responses necessary in school settings and the ways grief following suicide differs from grief following non-suicidal losses.
Trauma and Addictions
This course will look at the link between trauma and addictions, including factors of influence that increase risk for continued use. Practical prevention and intervention treatment strategies will be explored. This course provides a brief overview of addictions, research that supports the link between addictions and trauma and provides examples of trauma assessment and intervention techniques that can be used when working with a child or adolescent who is also struggling with addictions. ??
Counselling At-Risk Youth
This course will look at the foundational aspects that make youth vulnerable to future at-risk behaviours as well as the strategies that can be used for prevention, intervention, and treatment. Special attention will be provided to attachment and early life experiences and the potential these have to significantly shape later life relationships. Topics such as self-harming and negative coping patterns, self-concept and self-love, and holistic well-being will considered. This course will also provide examples of creative techniques that can be used to engage and promote resiliency in the children, adolescents, and adults you are working with.
Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma
Counseling can be a very rewarding profession, yet it is also one that can be emotionally and physically draining. Preventing Compassion Fatigue: Self-Care for Counselors will focus on raising awareness about compassion fatigue and its symptoms as well as prevention techniques through professional and personal self-care. This workshop will review signs and symptoms of compassion fatigue along with prevention and self-care strategies. Unique issues specific to counselling will also be discussed inclusive of working with vulnerable sectors, at risk youth, and hard to serve populations.
You will learn:
- How stress impacts the mind and body
- How to identify the warning signs symptoms of compassion fatigue
- How to engage in preventative care and holistic wellness to promote overall health
- How to evaluate and balance your experiences as a counselor and as a person ensuring counseling does not alter your worldview in a negative manner