Tending to Clients with Chronic Illness & Chronic Pain with Carissa Singh
The Collective Skillshare is a dynamic lunch-and-learn style workshop series designed to foster ongoing professional development and community connection.
This month, we have the pleasure of learning from and with fellow member Carissa Singh.
Do you feel stuck when working with clients who experience chronic pain/chronic illness (CP/CI)? Uncertain as to how to help them navigate the challenges they face?
This workshop is for everyone, including those who identify as able-bodied or non-chronically ill and are new to working with clients with CP/CI as well as those who may have lived and professional experience with CP/CI and want to deepen their understanding of how to better serve this population.
Together we will identify how to help these clients feel more seen, cared for, and less alone, discuss tools and strategies to help better manage and cope with their suffering as well as explore how to nurture our client’s potential for a deeper sense of agency, empowerment and self-advocacy in the medical realm and beyond.
Through this workshop, participants will be able to:
Understand the importance of supporting these clients using empathy and validation
Gain awareness of applicable coping tools and somatic strategies to work with clients’ suffering
Learn how to nurture clients’ potential towards empowerment and advocacy
Container
We will meet virtually via Zoom. You’ll receive the link to join the morning of the offering.
The first 35 minutes of the workshop will be a combination of didactic and communal discussion and it’s completely OK for you to eat your lunch while listening. The last 15 minutes will be protected for questions and conversation.
Exchange
Free for Shelterwood Members. Participation includes 1 CEU.
Logistics
This offering is for Shelterwood Members only and is being held virtually. A Zoom link will be shared the night before the gathering. Please RSVP to support us in preparing for this Skillshare.
Carissa Singh,
MA, LMHCA
she/her
I am a psychotherapist with 8 years of lived experience that deepens my understanding of human suffering in the realms of chronic illness and chronic pain. I enjoy treating these clients individually as well as holding groups and consultations around the experience of CI/CP. I approach this work from an integrated relational psychodynamic and somatic lens and hold a deep affinity for client dignity, agency and empowerment.