Vision statement:
Provide a safe place for all who may be experiencing challenges due to trauma, family, work, or life changes.
Mission statement:
The Healing Counseling Center, Inc mission is to promote wholeness by healing one person or family at a time by developing inner strength through self-expression
Trauma Informed Approach
Individual trauma results from an event, series of events, or set of circumstances experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life-threatening with lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional, or spiritual well-being. (SAMHSA)
A Trauma-Informed Approach, often referred to as trauma-informed care (TIC), is a promising model for organizational change in health, behavioral, health, and other settings that promotes resilience in staff and patients. Key principles of this approach include organizational safety, trustworthiness, transparency, cultural sensitivity, collaboration, and empowerment among and between staff and patients. This approach recognizes the role trauma plays in the lives of patients/consumers and seeks to shift the clinical perspective from “what’s wrong with you” to “what happened to you” by recognizing and accepting symptoms and difficult behaviors as strategies developed to cope with childhood trauma.
Healing Clinical Counseling Center utilizes a trauma-informed approach (the 4 R’s):
- Realizes the widespread impact of trauma and understands potential paths for recovery
- Recognizes the signs and symptoms of trauma in clients, families, staff, and other involved with the system
- Responds by fully integrating knowledge about trauma into policies, procedures, and practices
- Resists re-traumatization