Marie Nelson, MEd
TLC Certified Trainer

Marie Nelson, M.Ed. is a counselor with the Tyler Independent School District in Texas.  She is also the Trauma/Crisis Response Coordinator for her district of 17,000+ students. As coordinator she has been heavily involved in research, training of administrators and Campus Trauma Response Teams, and has helped to develop the basic protocol for the district.  She also has participated in terrorism exercises and some emergency management training through the Texas Department of Emergency Management and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.  Her years of experience include classroom teaching, spending time as a Reading Specialist, and becoming certified as a Mediator in Education.  She has trained adult trainers in mediation as well as over 1,000 students in how to be mediators. There was time spent in being a member of the Texas Attorney General's Board on Mediation Initiative as well as speaking extemporaneously before the Texas Attorney General's Task Force for Violence. She is certified as a Trauma and Loss Consultant Supervisor through TLC. She has co-authored with Dr. William Steele, Dee Ingle, and Patti Porter the Trauma Response Protocol Manual for Schools.

Marie 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.