Laura Fish on Healing Trauma

Laura Fish is a former preschool teacher turned marriage and family therapist from San Diego, CA, who began her work in early education over thirty years ago as a preschool teacher.

After earning her master’s degree in counselling, she worked as a mental health consultant for public, private pay, and Head Start infant, toddler, and preschool programs. Laura partnered with child welfare and special education departments to provide behaviour support services for children with identified risk factors or special needs to be fully included. For over a decade, Laura has offered both classroom-based and home-based mental health consultation services to children and their families.

She has parlayed these 30 years of experience as an educator and therapist into creating innovative, cutting-edge trainings for educators and care providers to help them teach based on science – not habit – so they work smarter not harder.

Discover how understanding the three Es of trauma can help you support children more effectively whilst developing your own emotional resilience. In this important session, Laura shares evidence-based insights into how past experiences shape present reactions in both children and adults, offering practical approaches to recognise trauma responses and create healing environments in early years settings.

In this episode you’ll:

• Learn the three Es of trauma and how they impact behaviour in your setting
• Understand why children’s reactions might seem disproportionate to current events
• Discover the difference between healing and simply managing difficult behaviours
• Explore how your own experiences might influence your responses to challenging children
• Access practical strategies for creating emotionally safe spaces that support recovery

Transform your understanding of challenging behaviour by watching this essential episode that bridges the gap between trauma research and everyday practice in Early Years settings.

Episode Links:

Website for consulting work: www.consulting.laurafishtherapy.com
Website for therapy work: www.laurafishtherapy.com

http://www.youtube.com/c/LauraFishTherapy

https://www.instagram.com/laurafishconsulting

https://www.facebook.com/LauraFishConsulting

3 Articles by Laura Fish Related to this topic:

You’re Wounded, Not Broken: Trauma Is 1 Wound That Can Be Healed

Healing Trauma Wounds: It Starts With Understanding And Acceptance

Understanding Trauma: 7 Trauma Reactions Explained — Laura Fish Therapy

Podcasts to consider:

How to Release Your Burdens with Thomas Hubl, PhD and Richard Schwartz, PhD.This podcast helps to understand trauma can be passed down to children from adults.

See also Laura’s previous Early Years TV session on Navigating Uncertainty here:

https://www.earlyyears.tv/video/laura-fish-on-navigating-uncertainty-with-children-2

Article related to this topic: https://consulting.laurafishtherapy.com/navigating-uncertainty-with-children/

Want to manage your stress? H.E.A.L your-self! https://laurafishtherapy.com/h-e-a-l-your-self/

Recovering from Complex PTSD with Elizabeth Ferreira

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6p2ODvLwd8AuOMXRPr1hVK?si=408a4bd8d90e48ec

The Whole-Brain Child by Tina Payne Bryson and Daniel Siegel (Author

https://amzn.to/4qs9BzA

Study on loneliness: https://agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jgs.18762

Positive Discipline: by Jane Nelsen Ed.D.

https://amzn.to/4qurNsw