Profile Information
Location
Winter Park, FL
Country
United States
Postal Code
32792
What is it you do for a living? (Parenting, volunteering, CEO of social service organization, etc.)
Licensed Mental Health Counselor
What organization(s) do you volunteer or work for?
Self - Jill Hamilton Buss Coaching and Counseling; My practice is holistic, trauma-informed (working on my EMDR certification) but have long used a trauma-informed approach; and treat teens and adults with anxiety, depression, loss, grief, life transitions, Bipolar and other mood disorders. I also use mindfulness and "Walk and Talk" therapy to get people out of their heads and to treat mind and body together.
What is your interest in PACEs and resilience science?
We fostered and adopted our son (got him at age 8 - he is now 13); so it's personal. But it's also professional. As a counselor, most of my clients have at least one (usually more) ACE in their background. I worked at the Howard Phillips Center for Children and Families for almost five years and dealt with the worst of worst child abuse cases so I have seen the things people do to children and the life-altering results (my son and so many other foster kids) and those who never tell and never get removed. Trauma lasts a lifetime - especially without buffers and caring adults. I want our community to be filled to overflowing with those caring adults, who in turn, inflict less and less trauma. And I want our "systems" (school, justice, legal...) to care for and work with traumatized children and adults in trauma informed ways. I want to be part of the healing.