Coping with Trauma: Understanding and Managing the Impacts of Trauma on Your Body and Brain

This course functions as both prevention and reaction, focusing on learning about the impacts of trauma on the body and brain, and how to cope with them. Firefighting is a profession laden with exposure to traumatic events, and we can all benefit from learning about how we react to them, and what to do about it. In this course, you'll develop an understanding of the body's mental and physical reaction to trauma, when it happens, how to mitigate it, and how to cope. You'll learn tools to take with you through your career to help you stay healthy and keep doing the work you love. This course is intended for all levels of experience and skill. Everyone is welcome.

Nina Halstead is Registered Psychotherapist who focuses in trauma treatment. She has 8 years' experience working in the mental health field, working with people from all walks of life in different institutional, community and private settings. Her other passion is as a volunteer firefighter with Loyalist Township. In her spare time, Nina can be found in the woods foraging for wild mushrooms and plants with her Irish Wolfhound, Laney.