Offerings

Trainings

Skill-building sessions for providers and leaders that translate frameworks like trauma-informed care and harm reduction into actionable, real-world decision-making.

Speaking Engagements

Provocative and grounded talks that challenge audiences to bridge the gap between high-level theory and the gritty reality of practicing integrity under pressure.

Workshops

Interactive, clinical-process sessions designed for mental health providers to bridge the gap between theory and practice, helping teams navigate high-stakes decision-making and reduce systemic harm in complex care settings.

Strategic Planning Sessions

Guiding leadership teams to align on a long-term vision and actionable goals.Strengthening internal dynamics and resolving unspoken "roadblocks" that hinder collaboration.

Team Alignment & Multidisciplinary Collaboration

Bridging gaps between different stakeholders or departments to ensure everyone "speaks the same language".

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Speaking & Trainings

Aligning values with action

- even under pressure.

I support healers, leaders, and systems in aligning their values with their actions, especially inside rigid or high-pressure environments. My trainings help people understand how pressure, power, and systems shape behavior, so that your responses reduce harm rather than unintentionally reproduce it.

This work bridges theory and real-world decision-making, translates frameworks like trauma-informed care, harm reduction, and culturally responsive practice into what you can actually do when it feels hard.

This work is especially relevant when policies, timelines, and risk collide with human needs… and there are no perfect options.

WHO THIS WORK IS FOR

I work with:

  • Systems and organizational leaders

  • Clinicians, healers, and care providers

  • Community organizers and advocates

  • Educators & caregivers

My work resonates most with people who:

  • Care deeply about doing the right thing

  • Hold responsibility without perfect options

  • Feel the tension between values, policy, urgency, and risk

  • Want to reduce harm without defaulting to control, blame, or burnout

Explore a range of services designed to help you move forward with confidence, wherever you're headed next.

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Offerings

Speaking Engagements, Trainings, Workshops & Strategic Planning Sessions

Across all offerings, I help participants:

  • Recognize how good intentions break down under pressure

  • Understand behavior in context (systems, history, power, relationships)

  • Respond with clarity, accountability, and care instead of reflex or fear

THEMES I SPEAK AND TRAIN ABOUT

I speak in themes rather than checklists or compliance models, including:

  • Integrity and decision-making under pressure

  • Harm reduction in high-stakes systems

  • Trauma beyond the individual

  • Attachment, power, and relational dynamics

  • Culturally responsive and decolonizing practice

  • Recovery-oriented and trauma-informed care

  • Immigration, identity, and first-generation experiences

All examples are composite and non-identifying, with an emphasis on normalization rather than over-disclosure.

  • Pressure doesn’t excuse harm

    but understanding pressure changes how we respond.

SELECTED TRAININGS

  • Trauma-Informed Clinical Practice & Systems Awareness
    Training for graduate-level clinical interns across the Bay Area and Michigan

  • Labor Trafficking: Identification, Impact, and Trauma-Informed Response
    Lead curriculum developer and trainer for a nationwide initiative through WestCoast Children’s Clinic

  • Reducing Harm in Anti-Trafficking Systems
    National trainings for multidisciplinary providers through WestCoast Children’s Clinic, supporting child welfare, probation, and community-based organizations

  • Recovery-Oriented & Trauma-Informed Peer Support
    Curriculum development and training for California’s Peer Support Specialist certification program

Yanina has developed and delivered trauma-informed trainings for clinicians, peer specialists, community health workers and systems leaders across California and nationally.

Let’s Work Together

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