Facilitators: Danielle McDowell, LPC
Location: Virtual
2 Hr CEs (NBCC)
Cost: $100
Trauma lives in bodies, families, communities, institutions, and cultural memory. Yet trauma-informed care is too often confined to treatment plans and clinical settings. This workshop reimagines healing beyond the therapy room, engaging in the collective, often difficult, work of transformation. Led by Licensed Professional Counselor, TEDx speaker, and women’s coach Danielle L. McDowell, this session expands trauma-informed care through a culturally responsive, identity-centered lens. Drawing on community healing circles, expressive arts, and racial justice consulting, Danielle highlights liberatory and embodied practices rooted in Black and Brown traditions of collective care. Participants will learn to integrate creative, somatic, and relational practices with individuals, couples, and groups, centering humanity—not pathology—in trauma responses. This training supports clinicians, community organizers, educators, and healing practitioners in holding space for grief, resistance, and renewal, while honoring resilience grounded in presence, connection, and radical honesty.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to: Identify and describe at least three collective or community-based healing practices that support trauma recovery beyond traditional therapy settings.
Apply culturally responsive, identity-centered strategies when working with clients from historically marginalized communities experiencing trauma.
Analyze the limitations of individual-focused trauma treatment models and develop a plan to incorporate somatic, expressive, or relational modalities into current clinical or community-based practice.