Trauma Informed Workshop
Begin your journey to becoming a trauma-informed practitioner with this comprehensive introductory workshop.
Date - Time - Location:
Sunday July 6, 2025 1-5 pm via ZOOM
Who Can Take This Course?
This course is open to both the general public and to students of the School of Sound.
Number of Credit Hours for School of Sound Students
This course is worth 5 hours of electives towards School of Sound elective hours. If you take this course and then decide to join School of Sound at a later date, you will be credited these hours.
Course Description
Learn about trauma, what trauma-informed care consists of and how to apply it to the practitioner/client relationship and interactions. Explore how loving-kind awareness of our own trauma-responses and that of others can help us build a foundation as a trauma-informed practitioner.
Course Objectives
- Challenge common myths through learning about trauma and providing care in a trauma-informed manner.
- Learn what happens in our body/mind as a result of trauma, including how the body holds trauma.
- Learn about the window of tolerance and begin to explore what it looks like when we and others are in the window of tolerance or not.
- Identify some ways that trauma can reveal itself in the practitioner/client experience.
- Learn the foundational aspects of providing trauma-informed care.
- Begin to identify how to apply these aspects to different stages of your professional practice.
- Identify how you can continue to grow as a trauma-informed practitioner.
For more information about this exclusive experience, do not hesitate to call Denise and her team at +1 (905) 563-3234.
Meet your Instructor
Michelle Klein 
Michelle M. Klein, a 2009 graduate of the Pennsylvania State University, is the owner of Michelle Klein Counseling LLC, located in State College, Pennsylvania. She provides holistic counseling and coaching services to adults within Trauma-Informed interventions and therapies such as IFS (Internal Family Systems), Ego-State Parts Work, Somatic and Poly-Vagal Informed Therapy. She particularly enjoys working with young adults transitioning from college to the career world. Within this area she works with students of diverse cultural, ethnic, and social backgrounds. She has particular experience with empowering her clients to maneuver the school and employment worlds as a minority, a neuro-diverse learner/thinker and/or a member of the LGBTQIA+ community in the manner that is most genuine to themselves. Prior to starting her solo practice in July of 2014, Michelle worked in Community-Based Mental Health as an Outpatient Therapist, an Inpatient Therapist and a Mobile Therapist. Additionally, Michelle worked as a fixed-term School Counselor in the Bald Eagle Area and Penns Valley school districts. Michelle’s philosophy is shaped not only by her training and experience in providing counseling services, but also by her diverse life experience as an advocate and volunteer, and within her first career as a documentary photographer. Michelle is excited and honored to teach the Trauma-Informed Workshop for Rooted in Sound’s School of Sound Medicine. She firmly believes that a Trauma-Informed world is essential to all our futures.
LOCATION DETAILS
Location is at the Sound Journey Store in Lincoln (Beamsville), Ontario, Canada L3J 2C8. We will send you the exact address once you are enrolled.
We are 35 minutes from Niagara Falls. 1 hour from both Toronto and from Buffalo NY. We live on a beautiful wine route on the top of the Niagara Escarpment, so if you are planning on travelling, you may with to add a few days to your trip and enjoy our area.
ACCOMODATIONS
Here are links to accommodations in the area. There are several Air B&Bs in walking distance. Air B&B and VRBO, Home To Go and Vacation Renter
AIRPORT
The Closest airport is Hamilton which is 30 minutes away . The next two airports are Toronto, Ontario, Canada and Buffalo NY, USA. Both airports are 1 hour away.
SHOPPING IN THE STORE
Participants are welcome to make purchases at the Sound Journey Store before or after training. If you would like a private consultation, we suggest you book the day before or after class to accommodate for more time.