Understanding, Assessing, & Responding to Domestic Violence with Compassion
About this Event
Join us for an in-person Continuing Education Event as a part of our behavioral health education series. Light refreshments will be served. All are welcome to attend the event; you do not have to be a direct service provider or a licensed medical or behavioral health professional to seek further education and invest in your community!
2 free CE credits for LMHCs, LMFTs, Psychologists, Nurses, and completion certificates provided.
Behind Closed Doors: Understanding, Assessing, and Responding to Domestic Violence with Compassion and Competence
· Understand domestic violence as a pattern of power, control, coercion, and safety risk, rather than “relationship conflict” or anger management.
· Identify common survivor presentations, including anxiety, depression, trauma symptoms, dissociation, shame, sleep disruption, and barriers to care.
· Recognize common perpetrator presentations, including minimization, blame shifting, entitlement, jealousy, coercive control, and control framed as “concern.”
· Explore how domestic violence impacts mental health, healthcare access, family systems, and treatment priorities.
· Learn trauma-informed screening and assessment language clinicians can use in session.
· Review practical considerations for documentation, mandated reporting, safety planning, warm handoffs, and resource delivery.
· Discuss culturally responsive assessment and how identity, community, immigration status, religion, and stigma may impact disclosure and safety planning.
· Apply concepts through case examples, guided reflection, and practical clinical tools.
Presented by: Jessica Straughn, LMHC-QS, LPC, NCC, CCTP-II, the founder and therapist at Supportive Counseling, LLC, a trauma-informed private practice providing telehealth therapy for women navigating anxiety, depression, PTSD, relationship concerns, and trauma recovery. Jessica is licensed in Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, and Washington and is a Florida Qualified Supervisor. Her clinical background includes extensive work with survivors of domestic violence, victims of crime, and trauma-exposed populations. Prior to private practice, Jessica worked in victim advocacy, including within the criminal justice and university systems, and she continues to be active in community education, professional training, and advocacy efforts. She is passionate about helping clinicians respond to domestic violence with compassion, competence, cultural humility, and a safety-centered lens.
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