Trauma Informed Consulting
Trauma affects communication, confidence, memory, and decision-making.
Trauma-informed consulting provides a structured approach to communication and strategy when trauma is part of the story. This consulting helps survivors, families, advocates, and professionals understand trauma responses, prepare for difficult conversations, and improve how information is received and understood.
JoDee Neil’s trauma-informed consulting is shaped by a series of formal trauma certificates that provide education in trauma response, recall, attachment, identity, and communication under stress. These certificates reflect intentional learning that gives her consulting a research-aligned and practical foundation.
Trauma-Informed Consulting: Certificates and Areas of Knowledge
The Complexity of Adaptation to Trauma
Certificate focused on how the body and mind protect people during and after trauma. This informs consulting for situations where emotional presentation seems inconsistent with events or where a person appears calm, detached, or overly neutral in stressful circumstances.
Developmental Neurobiology and Memory
Certificate focused on how trauma affects memory storage, fragmentation, delayed disclosure, and recall under pressure. This supports consulting when information comes in pieces or changes when a person feels safer, supported, or more prepared.
Trauma Recovery Methods and Current Research
Certificate providing insight into modern trauma recovery methods and how recovery timelines differ from legal or procedural timelines. This supports consulting when communication must respect regulation, overwhelm, or limited capacity for detail.
Attachment and Relationship Response
Certificate focused on how early experiences shape communication, boundaries, and decision making. This informs consulting for cases involving ongoing contact, reconciliation, silence, or decisions that others judge as contradictory or confusing.
Trauma and Identity in Real World Context
Certificate focused on how culture, gender, community, and systemic experiences influence response to trauma and expectations of disclosure. This informs consulting for situations where behavior is being interpreted through a limited or single frame of experience.
Human Trafficking Prevention and Trainer Certification
Certificate focused on human trafficking prevention, identification, and education through completion of the Universal Human Trafficking Prevention Train the Trainer program with the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services.
This training addresses trafficking dynamics, grooming and recruitment patterns, risk indicators, and prevention strategies across community and institutional settings. It informs consulting work involving trafficking risk assessment, prevention-focused planning, system-level response, and trauma-informed education for professionals, advocates, and community-based organizations.
Trauma in Environments of Ongoing Stress
Certificate focused on decision making when safety is uncertain or change is gradual. This supports consulting for people navigating public exposure, family conflict, legal matters, or transitions that do not allow immediate relief.
Polyvagal and Somatic Response to Trauma
Certificate focused on how the nervous system influences communication, silence, shutdown, or difficulty answering questions. This supports consulting for situations where a person is seen as evasive, unemotional, or unforthcoming when they are experiencing a trauma response.
Trauma Across Ages and Stages
Certificate focused on trauma expression in children, adolescents, and adults. This informs consulting for disclosures that emerge later in life or for situations where childhood trauma impacts adult decisions.
Trauma Assessment in Children and Adults
Certificate focused on how trauma is identified, assessed, and understood across age groups, including differences in presentation, coping strategies, and communication. This informs consulting for situations involving mixed age perspectives, delayed recognition of trauma impact, or differing interpretations of behavior between children, adolescents, and adults.
Scope of Trauma Treatment and Restoration of Self-Experience
Certificate focused on the continuum of trauma response from acute intervention through stabilization, integration, and restoration of self-experience. This supports consulting when individuals are navigating recovery at different stages or when expectations for clarity, disclosure, or resolution do not align with where a person is in their trauma process.
Introduction to ARC: The Attachment, Regulation, and Competency Mode
Certificate focused on the ARC framework, which examines how attachment, emotional regulation, and competency development shape a person’s responses following trauma. This informs consulting by providing a structured model for understanding how safety, self-regulation, and skill building influence communication, behavior, and decision-making in both children and adults.
ARC and Supporting Regulation in Childhood
Certificate focused on supporting emotional and physiological regulation in children impacted by trauma using the ARC model. This informs consulting for situations involving childhood trauma, developmental disruption, emotional overwhelm, or behaviors that are misunderstood as defiance, withdrawal, or inconsistency rather than regulation challenges.
Implementing and Sustaining Trauma-Informed Systems
Certificate focused on how trauma-informed principles are implemented and sustained across systems rather than applied only at the individual level. This informs consulting for organizations, teams, and institutions navigating trauma exposure, secondary trauma, policy development, and long-term cultural change rather than one-time intervention.
SMART: Sensory Motor Arousal Regulation Treatment
Certificate focused on sensory and motor-based approaches to arousal regulation following trauma. This informs consulting for situations where individuals experience shutdown, hyperarousal, agitation, dissociation, or difficulty staying present during conversations, questioning, or high-stress environments.
Childhood Trauma and Long-Term Impact
Certificate focused on how early trauma shapes emotional regulation, stress response, memory development, and long-term patterns of communication and decision making. This informs consulting for situations where adult behavior, silence, loyalty conflicts, or delayed disclosure are rooted in childhood experiences rather than present-day circumstances.
What Trauma-Informed Consulting Provides
Trauma-informed consulting provides structured guidance for communication, preparation, and understanding when trauma has shaped a person’s experience or response.
Consulting can include:
Guidance on how trauma affects communication and behavior
Support in preparing for conversations, statements, meetings, or testimony
Context that helps others understand trauma responses without bias
Strategies for reducing misunderstanding and misinterpretation
Practical education that supports informed decision making
This work is focused on clarity, communication, and understanding. It recognizes the complexities of trauma and how those complexities influence real people in real situations.
If Trauma Is Part of the Story, The Approach Matters
The response to trauma can impact confidence, clarity, trust, and outcomes. A trauma-informed approach strengthens understanding and supports communication that aligns with lived experience.
For individuals or organizations considering trauma informed consulting, additional information about services and scheduling can be provided upon inquiry.