SUPERVISION AND MENTORING:
ENHANCING TRAUMA-INFORMED SERVICES
No matter your role—attorney, paralegal, social worker, or mental health provider; seasoned professional or newcomer—personalized feedback and tailored guidance from an experienced psychotherapist with expertise in working with the undocumented population seeking immigration relief (including asylum-seekers and unaccompanied migrant children, among others), can greatly enrich your practice and enhance your ability to offer effective, compassionate, and trauma-informed services.​
Both mentoring and supervision are typically 1-hr sessions, but both the duration, and the content and structure can be adjusted depending on your needs. Available in English or Spanish.
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MENTORING FOR LEGAL SERVICES PROVIDERS:
UNDERSTAND IMPACT OF TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCES
Further understand the potentially profound impact that traumatic experiences has had on your clients' mental health and lives. Understanding this helps craft more compelling and effective legal arguments, emphasizing the necessity of the legal relief being sought for clients.
IDENTIFY SIGNS OF TRAUMA AND DISTRESS
Learn to identify signs of trauma and distress in their clients, including common symptoms of complex PTSD, anxiety, and depression.
IMPROVE COMMUNICATION AND TRUST
Improve your ability to communicate and build trust with clients who may be reluctant to share their experiences—or who may have different cultural expectations and communication styles—while avoiding the client's re-traumatization.
CULTURALLY SENSITIVE CARE
Enhance cultural humility by receiving nuanced insights into the diverse backgrounds and values of migrant populations, enabling providers to deliver more culturally sensitive care.
PROVIDER'S MENTAL HEALTH
Explore the impact of doing this work on the legal services provider's own mental health.
PREVENTING SECONDARY TRAUMA AND COMPASSION FATIGUE
Identify strategies for preventing or managing secondary trauma and compassion fatigue while working in this demanding field.
CLINICAL SUPERVISION FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDERS:
LEGAL, SOCIAL & ECONOMIC CONTEXTS
Deepen understanding of the general legal, social, and economic contexts in your client/patient's country of origin, that may have led to their migration.
U.S. IMMIGRATION SYSTEM
Understand the U.S. immigration policies and legal processes impacting your patient.
STRESSORS, CHALLENGES, AND NEEDS
Explore and identify the specific psychosocial stressors, challenges, and needs (including legal, medical, mental health, and concrete) that your patient may be currently facing.
TRAUMA SOURCES AND SYMPTOMS
Refine your understanding of the complexity of trauma sources and their manifestation in your patient. Enhance ability to identify signs of trauma and distress, including symptoms of complex PTSD, anxiety, depression, attachment-related disorders, etc.
TRAUMA-INFORMED THERAPEUTIC STRATEGIES/INTERVENTIONS
Hone skills to provide trauma-informed mental health services, and learn more about tailored therapeutic strategies/interventions.
EVALUATIONS FOR IMMIGRATION PURPOSES ("IMMIGRATION EVALUATIONS")
Receive guidance and support when conducting and writing mental health evaluations for immigration purposes. Learn more about them here.
COMPLEX ETHICAL ISSUES
Receive support in navigating complex ethical issues while working in the field/with this population.
PROVIDER'S MENTAL HEALTH
Explore the impact of doing this work on your own mental health.
PREVENT SECONDARY TRAUMA AND COMPASSION FATIGUE
Identify strategies to prevent or manage secondary trauma and compassion fatigue while working in this demanding field.