Those of us that encounter the effects of trauma in our work recognize it as complex, dynamic, and contagious. While most of us have education on the basic science of traumatic stress, being an effective professional means engaging traumatic material with our own nervous system—an inevitably personal process.
This day-long training featured the work of Dr. Jamie Marich, Dr. Melissa Neff, Dr. Emily Sallee, and Andrew Laue, LCSW It was designed for mental health clinicians, educators, and community members who work with people who have experienced traumatic stress. Presenters shared ideas on building pragmatic skills related to identifying, treating, and educating around symptoms of trauma.
Participants engaged in an interactive and immersive experience. This training offered 7.5 CEU credits for Montana social workers and counselors and fulfilled the yearly Montana requirements for a 2-hour suicide prevention training.
Lunch was included in the cost of admission and was catered by Isaac Gjefle with a focus on locally sourced ingredients. Gluten free and vegan options were available.
8:30 - 10:15am - Dr. Melissa Neff
10:30-12:00pm - Andrew Laue, LCSW
12:00 -1:00pm - Lunch
1:00 - 2:45pm - Dr. Jamie Marich
3:00 - 5:00pm - Dr. Emily Sallee
Dr. Neff (she/her) is a clinical psychologist, educator, speaker, and trainer based out of Missoula, MT. She has been in private practice since 2010.
For more than 10 years, Dr. Neff specialized in conducting psychological evaluations for children and adults. She is an expert in the assessment of ADHD, anxiety, trauma, nonverbal learning disorder, and Autism. Dr. Neff also has expertise in diagnosing, consulting, and providing education and training on the subject of Pathological Demand Avoidance, an atypical subtype of Autism. She was featured as the first guest on the Tilt! Parenting podcast to discuss PDA as a form of neurodivergence (Tilt Podcast on PDA).
Dr. Neff is known for her strengths-based and relational style, her passion for helping her clients to grow and thrive, and for providing ethical and compassionate care. She is known for seeing clients from a different perspective - from a holistic (mind/body), out-of-the-box, intuitive viewpoint that is based in a more humanistic, multimodal approach than the traditional medical model.
The current focus of Dr. Neff’s practice is neurofeedback. Neurofeedback is a mind-body treatment aimed at regulating brain waves and decreasing cognitive, behavioral, emotional, social, and sensory dysregulation.
Dr. Jamie Marich (she/they) describes herself as a facilitator of transformative experiences. A clinical trauma specialist, expressive artist, writer, yogini, performer, short filmmaker, Reiki master, TEDx speaker, and recovery advocate, she unites all of these elements in her mission to inspire healing in others. She began her career as a humanitarian aid worker in Bosnia-Hercegovina from 2000-2003, primarily teaching English and music while freelancing with other projects. Jamie travels internationally teaching on topics related to trauma, EMDR therapy, expressive arts, mindfulness, and yoga, while maintaining a private practice and online education operations in her home base of Northeast Ohio.
Jamie is the author of numerous books on trauma recovery and healing, with many more projects in the works. Marich is the founder of The Institute for Creative Mindfulness. Her bibliography currently includes: EMDR Made Simple (2011), Trauma and the Twelve Steps (2012), Creative Mindfulness (2013), Trauma Made Simple (2014), Dancing Mindfulness: A Creative Path to Healing and Transformation (2015), EMDR Therapy & Mindfulness for Trauma Focused Care (2018, with Dr. Stephen Dansiger), and Process Not Perfection: Expressive Arts Solutions for Trauma Recovery (2019).
She has also written guest chapters and contributions for several other published collections. North Atlantic Books released a revised and expanded edition of Trauma and the 12 Steps, in the Summer of 2020. Jamie’s own company, Creative Mindfulness Media, published two supplemental resources, a daily meditations and reflections reader and a trauma-responsive step workbook in the Autumn of 2020 to accompany. Her newest release with Dr. Stephen Dansiger, Healing Addiction with EMDR Therapy: A Trauma-Focused Guide is out as of August 2021 from Springer Publishing Company. Her next book, Dissociation Made Simple: A Stigma-Free Guide to Embracing Your Dissociative Mind and Navigating Life is scheduled for a release of January 10, 2023 with North Atlantic Books.
Andrew R. Laue, LCSW (he/him) is a psychotherapist in private practice in Missoula and Polson, Montana. In addition to the clinical work he does with individuals, couples and families, he supervises 30 psychotherapists in the Western Montana region. He is the chief trainer for the National Association of Social Workers Montana Chapter’s course in Clinical Supervision. In 2017, he won a National County Association award for his Secondary Trauma Group work with the Missoula County Attorney’s office.
He is passionate about creating sustainability for human service professionals through the process of identifying secondary trauma that occurs from the intensity of human service work. He consults with many agencies about the delivery and complexity of mental health practice. These include First Step Missoula at St. Patrick’s Hospital, Partnership for Children, Inter Mountain Mental Health Center, Partnership Health Center, and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Social Services Department.
A leader in the LGBT community in Montana, Andrew has developed cutting edge interventions for diverse groups including his HIV prevention work with the MSM and IDU population, for which he won the Governor’s Award for HIV Prevention in 2003. A decade ago he was part of the development of the award-winning documentary film, Red Without Blue (2007) which has become a founding document in the search for the equitable treatment of transgender people. He resides on the Flathead Reservation in rural Montana, and is passionate in his commitment to serve the Native American population in this region.
Dr. Emily Sallee (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Counseling at the University of Montana as well as the Executive Director of the Montana Safe Schools Center housed at UM. Emily’s experiences as a professional school counselor led to her drive in training future school and clinical counselors in the higher education setting. Emily engages in professional advocacy by serving on the MSCA Board of Directors as Board Chair and in various other roles throughout the state. Her research interests include adolescent suicidality and non-suicidal self-injury, school violence and prevention, and advocacy for the role of professional school counselors. Emily is also the part-time school counselor at a K-8 frontier school and has a
small clinical practice working with youth. While other people’s kiddos tend to be easier to work with, Emily has three of her own to wrangle, in addition to a growing menagerie and ever-increasing lists of books to read, foods to eat, and trails to run.
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