Trauma Informed Workplaces

Creating psychological safety using evidence-based psychotherapy principles.

Course Details:

Date: Monday, May 18, 2026

Time: 12:00PM-3:00PM EST (Please check your local timezone)

CEUs/CEs: 3 CEUs/CEs

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Course Description:

Psychological safety has emerged as a critical factor in clinician well-being, ethical practice, and effective team functioning—yet it is often discussed in superficial or overly managerial terms. This training offers a clinically grounded, trauma-informed approach to understanding and fostering psychological safety in workplace and organizational settings. Using an integrative framework informed by Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT), self-compassion frameworks, and positive psychology, participants will examine how trauma, chronic stress, power dynamics, shame-based threat responses, and normalized overwork shape workplace culture, communication, and supervision. The training explores how trauma responses often map onto burnout presentations, and how burnout can spread within teams through relational and systemic processes. Designed for clinicians working within teams, supervision, healthcare systems, and organizational contexts, this course translates evidence-based psychotherapy principles into practical strategies for fostering collaboration over competitiveness, delivering feedback in psychologically safe ways, reducing burnout contagion, and supporting values-aligned professional cultures—while maintaining realistic boundaries around individual versus organizational responsibility.

CE/CEU Information:

NYSED: AFFIRM Mental Health, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0196 and State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0695.

NBCC: AFFIRM Mental Health LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7580. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. AFFIRM Mental Health LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

ASWB: AFFIRM Mental Health, LLC, provider #1929, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: July 18, 2025-July 18, 2028.

About Your Instructor: Shaina Siber-Sanderowitz, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience providing psychotherapy to diverse patient populations. She is the founder and owner of AFFIRM Mental Health, an accredited continuing education provider dedicated to offering high quality virtual workshops to mental health providers. She’s spent her career in various clinical and leadership roles focused on serving underserved populations and addressing systemic issues. She continues to provide therapy through her private practice, offer consulting for organizations with behavioral health needs and teach in psychology and psychiatry residency training programs, graduate social work education and continuing education courses on a variety of topics including Interpersonal Psychotherapy, Gender Affirming Care, Professional Burnout and Structural Competency.