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Recovering Wholeness: A Caregiver's Guide to Traumatic Stress

"Be a lamp, a lifeboat, a ladder. Help someone's Soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd." Rumi

Traumatic experiences and the after effects occur in individuals of every culture, community, gender, and age. Adults and children who have experienced or witnessed traumatic events often suffer debilitating and chronic symptoms. Extreme stress affects brain function, as well as one's physical, emotional, social and spiritual nature. In this class we will explore:

  • how to incorporate a holistic approach with clients who suffer from traumatic stress
  • conventional and complementary interventions for treating traumatic stress
  • complementary therapies for mind/body integration, self-soothing and self-healing
  • ways to increase compassionate care, while decreasing risk for compassion fatigue

This class is designed for health care providers, mental health clinicians and other helping professionals who want to understand and support individuals to heal, recover and develop a sense of wholeness in the face of tragic circumstances and result of traumatic stress.

Cynthia Garner Scrimshaw, MS, APRN, PMHNP-BC, AHN-BC is a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner, advanced practice holistic nurse and credentialed in several integrative therapies. She currently works in a rural health care setting in the White Mountains region of New Hampshire, specializing in holistic behavioral health care and mind/body medicine. As health care provider, consultant, and educator, Cynthia has collaborated with numerous hospital, university, and community programs to cultivate holistic and integrative health care.


Monday, November 19, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

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$135 (6 contact hours/ 0.6 CEUs)
Abromson Center, 88 Bedford Street, USM Portland campus