Beyond CEs: Renewing the Heart of Trauma Therapy
A Restorative Retreat | Cape Cod
POSTPONED TO FALL 2027
The Brave and Sage Foundation, Elemental Intuition, and Doula for the Soul Enterprise are holding a restorative retreat for trauma therapists to rest, reflect, and reconnect to therapy work that still matters. Join us for the fall foliage on Cape Cod at the historic Craigville Retreat Center in Fall 2027.
Why Join Us for This Retreat
You’ve spent years helping others hold pain, navigate chaos, and rebuild trust. You’ve sat in the uncertainty of trauma work, bearing witness to healing and sometimes to harm when systems fail your clients.
The work you do matters to you, feels aligned… and you're experiencing fatigue.
Lately, something feels different. The spark that once fueled your work feels dim. You’re showing up, but you’re also running on fumes.
You’re ready for a space that names these realities and nurtures your ability to keep showing up with integrity and hope.
This CE retreat is not another professional “should.” It’s a sacred pause: a place to learn, rest, and remember that you deserve healing and community. We will provide tangible skills for you to use with your clients while utilizing gentle practicum moments to reignite your connection to your work.
Here, continuing education becomes restoration.
You belong here.
You belong here.
Who This Retreat Is For
This retreat was created for established trauma therapists who are ready to step away from the grind and reconnect to the heart of the work.
You belong here if you want to:
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Reconnect with the deeper “why” that led you into trauma work.
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Explore how systemic inequities and burnout intersect in your practice.
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Learn renewal practices that are realistic, embodied, and sustainable that you can utilize with clients.
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Be in community with fellow trauma therapists who share your values and your weariness.
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Earn 16 CEs in a setting that honors your humanity as much as your expertise.
Together, we’ll rest, learn, and heal: not as professionals trying to perform wellness but as people reclaiming sustainable practices and meaning in the work we love.
What You’ll Experience
Restorative Learning: CE sessions that blend trauma-informed education with embodied renewal practices.
Systemic Reflection: Guided discussions on how institutional, cultural, and societal systems shape both client and clinician experiences.
Creative Processing: Experiential workshops using movement, writing, and mindfulness to integrate insight and emotion.
Community Circles: Connection spaces where therapists can speak freely about the work without judgment, competition, or productivity metrics.
Radical Rest: Built-in time for silence, integration, and spaciousness because rest is part of our work!
Meet the Retreat Facilitators
The facilitators of this retreat understand where you are right now because they’ve experienced the burnout, worked on ways to ground into their healing, and built new systems of mental health provider support.
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Jenny Hughes, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in the treatment of trauma and PTSD. As a clinician, she practices Brainspotting, EMDR, and Cognitive Processing Therapy. Jenny is the author of The PTSD Recovery Workbook and Triggers to Glimmers: A Vicarious Resilience Journal and Workbook. As a leader in the field of vicarious trauma and resilience, Jenny serves trauma therapists, helpers, and healers as the founder of The BRAVE Trauma Therapist Collective. Jenny helps trauma therapists be human again and become more aware of how to identify and manage vicarious trauma, enhance vicarious resilience, and connect and grow through community.
Website - braveproviders.com
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Tawana Marie Woolfolk, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker, EMDR Certified Therapist, and EMDRIA-Approved Consultant with over two decades of clinical experience. She is the founder of Doula for the Soul Enterprises, where she integrates trauma-informed, nervous system science, and relational healing to support individuals, clinicians, and communities. Her work centers on complex and developmental trauma, suicide bereavement, attachment wounds, embodied safety, and the social-emotional impact of emotional silence in our culture. Her approach synthesizes lived experience with clinical expertise — particularly how social conditioning, shame, and nervous system adaptation shape our capacity to talk about emotion openly and connect across difference. Tawana Marie teaches, consults, and speaks nationally, creating spaces where difficult conversations are held with dignity, presence, and relational depth — where people feel seen, regulated, and less alone.
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Lindsay became a social worker in 2009. Her reason to join the field was both to work on emotional healing and work on changing systemic barriers leading to mental health challenges. Lindsay worked in homeless prevention, a DMH residential program, and as a crisis stabilization manager before starting her private practice in 2020. In 2022, Lindsay began growing her practice into a group practice at Elemental Intuition. Clinically, Lindsay focuses on EMDR and Brainspotting with a focus on medical trauma, abuse, and the LGBTQQIA+ population. In December 2025, Lindsay became an EMERIA Approved Consultant in Training.
Over the years, Lindsay had navigated serious health challenges including sepsis three times, amputation, a genetic neuromuscular neuropathy, and immunoglobulin deficiency. Lindsay helps her clients navigate complex medical systems and self-care advocacy from the years of lived experience with medical advocacy. She started The Cozy Couch Crew in 2025 to support other chronically ill and disabled therapists find sustainable ways to care for themselves and their clients. In her spare time, Lindsay enjoys spending time with her dog Lyla, taking improv classes, and playing board and card games.
Continuing Education, Reimagined
Yes, you’ll earn CEs, but this retreat is about more than accumulating credits. It’s about learning that nourishes, education that restores, and community that sustains.
You’ll leave with both professional development and personal renewal; skills you can bring back to your clients, your supervision groups, and yourself.
You will leave this retreat with:
A renewed sense of purpose and possibility in your trauma work.
Systemic insight that validates your lived experience as a clinician.
A toolkit of embodied renewal practices that fit your real life, not just your ideal schedule.
Connections with other trauma therapists who remind you that you’re not alone.
A sense of belonging and clarity about how to continue this work—sustainably, compassionately, and joyfully.
Investment
Early Bird Pricing options coming soon.
Regular registration is $1497.
Registration includes -
4 nights accommodation,
all meals, and
16 CE credits
Payment plans available. A $400 deposit is due at booking and is non-refundable.
Bonuses
In order to provide a nourishing retreat experience, these bonuses are our gift to you:
Welcome video call on Google Meet Friday September 25th from 5-7 PM EST with Lindsay ($100 value)
Lifetime access to a private Signal group for ongoing community
Welcome sensory kit/goodie bag from Tawanna Marie ($25 value)
Frequently Asked Questions
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Think of your family’s cozy, rustic camp versus a fancy resort. While everyone will have a private bedroom with 1-2 twin beds, bathrooms are generally shared. We have a private main room with couches and chairs for our main programming and evening social activities. Our main meals will be in the dining hall, but there is a small kitchenette in our building. Outside, there are walking trails to a private beach. For more information on our particular building, visit The Craigville Inn.
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The fees cover all meals and accommodation, transportation pick up in Hyannis (if needed and prearranged), CEUs, and all bonuses. We will have some snacks available.
We have a few optional group outings as well as downtime opportunities to explore the area. You will need additional funds for those outings. If cost is an issue, please contact Lindsay at lboudreau@elementalintuition.com.
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Lindsay will be working closely with participants and the retreat center. The Dining Hall page has more information on addressing food allergies and nutritional needs (e.g. vegetarian meals). We will have separate snacks available and can accommodate requests.
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There is a wheelchair accessible ramp for our building with an outside path to the dining hall. One bathroom is wheelchair accessible with a shower bench. We ask that participants refrain from fragrances.
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Our programming is secular. The retreat space has some small Christian imagery and a chapel on grounds. The UCCR is committed to full DEI. Read their DEI position statement.
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You do not need to attend all sessions, but you will only receive CEU credits for the sessions you attend
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Strong Blossom CE is sponsoring CE approval. While the credits are approved by Ohio’s licensing boards, Massachusetts LICSW, LMHC, and LMFT boards accept the CEUs.
Please Join Us
This is your invitation to step away from survival mode, breathe deeply, and remember why you began this work.
Because even healers need places to heal and grow.
