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Trauma Travels: An Introduction to the Trauma Ecology Integration Model™ (TEIM™)

Georgina Smith, PhD
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Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Describe at least three core principles of the Trauma Ecology Integration Model™ (TEIM™) and explain how trauma and healing can be understood as processes that move through systems and time.

  • Identify and distinguish among primary, secondary, and tertiary orbits of harm and describe the roles of trauma satellites, echoes, and atmospheres within the model.

  • List at least four ecological factors (e.g., bodies, relationships, meanings, environments, institutions, cultures) and identify how they influence the development and maintenance of suffering and protective adaptations.

  • Apply an ecological lens to case conceptualization by identifying experiences, relationships, meanings, and environmental conditions that may support ongoing healing and reorganization.

Educational Goal

The educational goal of this workshop is to introduce clinicians to the Trauma Ecology Integration Model™ (TEIM™), an integrative framework that restores context to trauma by conceptualizing suffering and healing as processes that move through interconnected biological, relational, cultural, and systemic ecologies. Participants will learn key concepts within the model and develop a more contextual, less pathologizing approach to understanding symptoms, adaptation, and possibilities for healing. The workshop will also provide clinicians with a framework for case conceptualization and treatment planning, helping them identify how patterns of suffering are organized across contexts and what experiences and conditions may support reorganization and ongoing healing.

Description

The Trauma Ecology Integration Model™ (TEIM™) is an integrative framework that understands trauma and healing as processes that move through systems and time. Rather than viewing symptoms as isolated problems or evidence of pathology, TEIM™ explores how suffering and adaptation emerge within interconnected ecologies of bodies, relationships, meanings, histories, environments, institutions, and cultures. Through concepts including trauma satellites, echoes, orbits of harm, and atmospheres, participants will learn how experiences become organized across multiple levels of life and what conditions support change and ongoing healing. TEIM™ offers clinicians a more contextual, less pathologizing approach to understanding how pain moves through systems and time, and how healing can move through them too.

Target Audience

  • Addiction Professional
  • Counselor
  • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • Psychologist
  • Social Worker

Presenters

Georgina Smith, PhD
Georgina K. Smith, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and EMDR certified trauma specialist based in Los Angeles. She earned her BA in Psychology with a minor in Neuroscience from the University of Southern California and completed her master’s and PhD in Clinical Psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology. For the past 20 years, Dr. Smith has worked across diverse settings, from nonprofits and hospitals to dual-diagnosis treatment centers, integrating relational, attachment-focused, somatic, narrative, and neurobiological approaches, including EMDR and IFS. She has maintained a private practice in Los Angeles for 18 years and is the founder of Revolve Recovery, a community-conscious, trauma-focused intensive outpatient center in Marina del Rey. Revolve is built around her Trauma Ecology Integration Model™ (TEIM™), which views trauma as a living, systemic ecology in motion and emphasizes non-pathologizing, contextual, relational, and community-based healing. In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Smith supervises pre-licensed clinicians, presents nationally and internationally, leads CEU trainings, and is currently writing a book on trauma and healing. Passionate about advancing the frontiers of trauma treatment, she challenges today’s soundbite, reductionist, insta-culture by reminding us that the complexity of healing requires depth, nuance, and the courage to hold paradox. Dr. Smith is committed to bridging individual and collective healing, recognizing how culture, community, and systemic forces shape our experiences and our recovery.

Financially Sponsored By

  • Revolve Recovery