Consulting Services
Sarah offers consultation services online to support a variety of professionals to develop their skills, knowledge and personal effectiveness within their scope of practice. The focus of these consultations can either be with regards to humans as clients, animals as clients, or both.
Options for consultation support include:
Somatic Experiencing® Credit Hours: Sarah is approved through Somatic Experiencing® International to provide the following consultations for credit hours:
- Individual consultations to students at the Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced levels of SE™ training.
- Small group consultations to Beginning-level SE™ students.
EQUUSOMA® Credit Hours: As a faculty member for the EQUUSOMA® training program, Sarah is approved to provide the following consultations for credit hours:
- Individual consultations to students at all levels of the EQUUSOMA® training.
- Assignment consultations to students at all levels of the EQUUSOMA® training.
Clinical Consultation: Sarah also offers consultation services that do not count towards SE™ or EQUUSOMA® training credit hours, that are open to SEPs, ESPs, other professionals, and the general public. These include:
- Individual consultations and mentoring for professionals on a variety of topics pertaining to SE™ and beyond, such as integrative trauma work, other approaches and frameworks, case conceptualization and treatment planning (for human and equine clients), counter-transference, ethics, career exploration, transitioning to private practice, professional development, and program development.
- Individual consultations for the general public that provide a personal case conceptualization and suggested roadmap for themselves and/or for an equine, outlining potential goals, approaches, resources, referral options, and next steps they can consider moving forward.
- Large group consultations on a number of specialty topics.
All consultations are provided online, either via Owl Practice or Zoom. On occasion, when Sarah is assisting or teaching at an event in person, consultations may be possible to complete in person (pending scheduling availability).
Areas of Focus
Consultations can focus on general questions as well as case-specific questions. Particular areas of focus that are often covered in consultation with Sarah include the following:
- Early developmental and complex trauma
- Pre-, birth, and peri-natal trauma
- Relational orienting, attunement, rupture, and repair
- Double binds, attachment dilemmas, appeasement, and object constancy
- Cluster B personality disorders and traits
- Dissociative Identity Disorder
- Dissociation, collapse, and freeze
- Renegotiating thwarted responses
- Reactive abuse and narcissistic abuse
- Shame, unmet needs, and cognitive dissonance
- Grief and loss, death and dying
- Complex management strategies (e.g., spiritual bypassing, confirmation bias, polarization, logical fallacies, somatic patterns, obsessive-compulsive behaviour, addictions, eating disorders, etc.)
- Harassment, vexatious complaints, legal bullying, and false accusations
- Neurodivergence (ADHD, autism, giftedness)
- Equestrian trauma (relational and shock trauma involving equines)
- Trauma related to animals and the natural world
- Complex health syndromes, health anxiety, and medical trauma
- Pelvic pain, sexual trauma
- Body dysmorphia and gender dysphoria
- Coming out, transitioning, and gender identity
- Colonial trauma and identity trauma
- Privilege, implicit biases, diversity, cultural competence, and intersectionality
- Supporting trauma renegotiation, agency, and decolonization with Indigenous clients and communities (including Indigenous equine programs)
- Religious and spiritual trauma and healing connection with God / creator / the divine
- Ritual abuse, trafficking, and coercive control
- Case conceptualization
- Transference and counter-transference
- Coupling dynamics, SIBAM, titration, and incomplete rhythms (activation-deactivation, pendulation, expansion-contraction)
- Somatic inquiry, metaphors, patterns, and sequences
- SE™ and attachment work
- SE™ and parts work / inner child work
- SE™ eye work and touch work
- SE™ and EMDR, Brains potting, and Deep Brain Reorienting*
- Interspecies case conceptualization
- Interspecies transference and counter-transference
- SE™, EQUUSOMA®, and animal/equine ethology
- SE™ / EQUUSOMA® applied to equines as clients (horses, donkeys, mules)
- SE™ / EQUUSOMA® in equine-assisted psychotherapy and learning
- SE™ / EQUUSOMA® in horsemanship, equine behaviour shaping, horse training, and equestrian sport
- SE™ / EQUUSOMA®, the human-animal bond, animal rescue, owner-pet dynamics, and animal welfare
Preparing for Your Consultation
Consultations can either focus on general questions, or questions pertaining to specific cases. When presenting a client case, the structure Sarah typically follows involves you sharing the following information (Note: if you are a member of the general public seeking a case conceptualization and roadmap for yourself and/or for an equine, some of the points below won’t apply):
- Your scope of practice
- The human and/or animal client’s demographics (without identifying information)
- Why the client is seeking (or being referred for) support (the presenting issues)
- Any relevant historical / background / contextual information
- Adverse experiences that have been encountered
- Any formal or suspected diagnoses
- The human and/or equine client’s strengths
- The intended goals
- The frequency and length of appointments and their format (online or in person)
- What has been worked on so far using what approaches, techniques, medications, supplements, etc., and to what degrees of success
- Any questions you have (what’s not going as intended, where are they getting stuck, etc.).
Sarah will then usually provide a conceptualization using SE™ and other relevant frameworks and concepts to help make sense of what may be happening and offer a working theory from which to guide the application of SE™ and/or other approaches, as applicable. Suggestions for referrals to additional services that might be helpful as well as resources and reading materials may also be provided. If the consultee is a professional who includes other approaches or techniques in their work, the integration of these with SE™ may also be part of the exploration.To continue to prepare for your consultation, please review Sarah’s Professional Services Consent Form for additional details and read the next section below about submitting questions and cases. Once you’re ready, feel free to click on the boxes below to explore the different options Sarah has available.
Note: Professionals who consult with Sarah retain the legal liability of their own clients. Sarah and the Schlote Psychotherapy Professional Corporation and their agents and representatives shall not be held liable or responsible for any injury or damage from a consultee’s participation or involvement in any consultation offered by Sarah Schlote, or from any information provided during any consultation offered by Sarah Schlote.
Submitting Cases and Questions
If you are inquiring about an individual consultation, please contact Jennifer Matz at [email protected] and provide a general description of the kind(s) of things you would like to consult about and your scope of practice, to help determine if Sarah is the right fit before proceeding with your booking.
If you have registered for a group consultation, please email [email protected] directly no later than 5 days before the group consultation to submit your question or case for Sarah to review. Sarah will then identify themes and common questions to answer more generally, followed by specific case questions. Sarah will do her best to accommodate requests, but makes no guarantees as to how many individuals will have a chance to present a case or have their question answered during any given group consultation, due to the volume of submissions received.
Ready to proceed?
Click the boxes below to find out more about the different options and your next steps.
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