Participants who register for this course have the option to attend the course live-online and/or watch the recorded session later. The recording will be available to all registrants for a 6-week period after each session, and access is provided on the next business day. This allows participants who may not be able to attend live-online to still benefit from the course content. To facilitate attendance tracking, please indicate on your registration form if you won't be attending live.

Course Description:

Clinicians today are practicing in a healthcare system that is increasingly fast-paced, productivity-driven, and emotionally demanding. Many providers find themselves facing burnout, compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and moral injury - often while striving to deliver high-quality, patient-centered care. At the same time, patients frequently report feeling rushed, unheard, or disconnected from their care.

Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) offers a practical, evidence-informed framework that supports both clinician well-being and improved patient outcomes. Rather than adding more to your workload, TIC can reshape how care is delivered - fostering collaboration, restoring meaning in clinical work, and creating safer, more empowering experiences for patients.

This interactive session will explore the systemic and clinical drivers of burnout, clarify what Trauma-Informed Care truly is (and what it is not), and demonstrate how TIC principles can be integrated into everyday practice. Participants will leave with concrete, immediately applicable strategies to reduce clinician strain, strengthen therapeutic relationships, and enhance the patient experience.

Course Objectives:

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Differentiate between burnout, compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and moral injury - and recognize their impact on clinical practice.
• Understand the nervous system, trauma, and triggers in a practical and compassionate way.
• Begin to understand and integrate the lens of social medicine in their clinical practice. 
• Describe the core principles of Trauma-Informed Care and identify common misconceptions.
• Explain how Trauma-Informed Care can support clinician well-being while acknowledging real-world implementation challenges.
• Identify the ways Trauma-Informed Care improves patient engagement, trust, and health outcomes.
• Apply practical, actionable strategies to begin integrating Trauma-Informed Care into clinical practice immediately.

Audience: Open to all healthcare and wellness professionals, and anyone else in a caregiving field

Prerequisites: None

Schedule

Date/Time: 4:30pm - 8:30pm ET (Toronto). Please convert to your local time zone.

Delivery Format

Live attendance is not mandatory for this online course. Enjoy a 6-week period to access and review the course recordings, which is sent out on the next business day following each session. We understand that life can be busy, which is why we offer you the freedom to access the course recording(s) during the time-limited viewing period.

Instructor

Robyn Synnott

Robyn Synnott is a Registered Physiotherapist of over 15 years, and a pelvic health physiotherapist for over a decade. She has a trauma-informed practice helping women and gender-diverse individuals with pelvic health concerns and persistent pain. She works for the Hamilton Family Health Team providing these services to those who could not otherwise afford it. Robyn also teaches continuing education courses for allied health professionals through Pelvic Health Solutions on how to practice trauma-informed care and how to support clients through labour and birth. She is a fierce advocate for women, gender-diverse individuals, and marginalized people in the community and in healthcare.