ELEVATE YOUR BUSINESS
The Counseling Col:lab offers structured organizational wellness programs and tailored training workshops for non-profits, social services, and healthcare agencies. Our programs are designed to help agencies foster a culture that supports their employees just as effectively as they support their clients.
We offer a range of ready-to-present workshops that can be customized to meet the unique needs of large agencies or specific staff groups, including health and human services workers, administrative staff, school and after-school programming teams, social workers, therapists/counselors, and college staff.
We have worked with small teams to groups as large as 200 participants focused on employee wellness and sustainable care practices.
Amanda Gibson is a licensed clinical social worker, consultant, and speaker with 18 years of experience. She treats adults and families in the areas of child welfare, domestic violence, trauma, chronic health, and mental health and wellness. She the Founder and CEO of Counseling Col:lab in Sacramento California. Counseling Col:lab provides a collaborative space where therapists of all different backgrounds come together to serve the Sacramento area.
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While earning her master’s in social work at USC, Amanda served as the program director at Good Shepherd Shelter in Los Angeles from 2003-2006. In January of 2014, she returned to serve at the Shelter as the Director of Clinical Programs and Operations after working in Sacramento in mental health and community health. She was invited to join the faculty of USC School of Social Work as an Associate Clinical Professor in the online Master of Social Work program. In 2015, she was promoted to Executive Director at Good Shepherd Shelter where she integrated Trauma Informed Care as a philosophy and treatment model. In 2017, Amanda decided to open up a private practice where she could build an organization that centered employee well-being and sense of belonging.
Amanda has also been a part of Sac State’s Social Work program from 2000-2024 teaching in the practice course sequence.
Nicole Greenwood is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 10 years of experience working within the nonprofit sector providing program management oversight, implementing community based public health programs, and providing school based therapy services. She is a Clinical Supervisor at the Counseling Collab in Sacramento, California.
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Nicole has launched and expanded multiple community based programs. This includes but is not limited to: establishing accessibility to Collab’s psychotherapy services by overseeing insurance medical billing programs and community-based counseling programs within Los Rios Community College Districts.
Nicole currently focuses on providing trauma focused psychotherapy services to adults and clinical supervision to board certified associate therapists.
She currently treats adults who have experienced traumatic childhoods, relational trauma, and family conflict. She currently owns a private practice in Sacramento, CA.
While earning her Master’s degree at University of San Francisco, Nicole was a program manager at the Sacramento Native American Health Center. Nicole completed her licensure hours at a nonprofit Counseling Center in Sacramento. Nicole currently resides in Sacramento, CA and takes pride in being a part of multiple health and wellness communities.
Below are some of the trainings that we offer to help improve your business.
Leadership Coaching
Do you feel like your leadership talents are not enough? Being a leader means being under a lot of pressure to perform. With leadership coaching, you learn to assess your own leadership skills to find your strengths and your weaknesses.
You’ll also learn techniques to amplify your strengths and bypass your weaknesses in order to motivate and inspire your team for greatness.
Leadership Coaching is available in weekly one-on-one coaching sessions, as a seminar for groups, or for retreats.
Organizational Development
Would your organization benefit from optimization? Efficiency is difficult to achieve for a business, but it helps save money and keeps employees happy. By optimizing performance, you’re able to be productive and simultaneously give people the time off they need to unwind. It’s a win-win situation. Take advantage of this opportunity to assess the strengths and weaknesses of your business.
From writing those pesky policies and procedures, to grants, to staff improvement plans; Amanda can help you with all of these important tasks that often get left to the side by busy managers and leaders.
Anti-Racism Practice Training
Becoming racially conscious in a multiracial society is our responsibility, and our duty as business owners and leaders to be aware of the effects at every level of our organization.
By educating yourself and your staff on issues of racism and getting acquainted with their own relationship with privilege, you are better able to inspire employees and clients from all racial backgrounds and advocate for them as an ally.
Culturally Responsive Trauma-Informed Care Training
Culture is another facet of people’s background that must be respected and understood if you are looking to achieve high productivity and cohesiveness within your organization.
Trauma induced by cultural issues (like microaggressions) can affect people’s mental health in measurable ways. Educate your staff on matters of cultural and implicit bias.
ACEs Training
Nearly two-thirds of all adults have experienced at least one type of Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE).
The pains of childhood follow us long into adulthood, long into our work lives, and long after we’ve learned to shoulder the weight of our employer’s expectations.
How can you be sure that your team is valuing their health the way they should and recognize the challenges that others faced as they grew up with childhoods vastly different from their own?
General Trauma-Informed Care
Talking about trauma is not always an easy task. Our childhood experiences often reside in the recesses of our minds, and the last place we want to talk about them is at work. However, trauma is everywhere, and if we continue to ignore its presence, we're only contributing to the problem.
Knowing how to recognize trauma in yourself and others is a valuable skill necessary to avoid burnout whether you work in healthcare or otherwise.
As you become a trauma-informed workplace, enlisting the help of a mental health professional can help you gain insights into your employees' performance, mental health, and well-being.
Mandated Reporter Training
Anyone who spends time with children as part of their job is a primary candidate for mandatory reporting training, although the responsibilities of mandated reporting extend beyond caring for the welfare of children. Dependent disabled persons, and elderly folks are also beneficiaries of mandated reporting laws.
Many states or counties recommend taking a mandated reporter training every year to stay in the loop about best practices for protecting children. If you think you qualify for any of the above, sign up for the webinar today.
Getting Creative With Self-Care
We all need support. Even when we pride ourselves on being independent and resilient, there comes a time when our natural defenses against unhealthy behaviors cannot protect us. At that moment, we need to instead act with intention to care for ourselves.
Practicing self-care can help us weather pandemic fatigue and any changes or challenges that arise as we transition back to “normal”.
In a difficult moment like the one we’re in now, self-care can be a lifesaver.