Community Trauma Response
CFR’s Community Trauma Response (CTR) program helps communities flourish by providing grief and trauma interventions, specialized leadership training, and healing support to communities, organizations, and groups after a tragedy.
Services
CTR provides the following grief and trauma interventions:
- Consultation and education for leaders regarding collective trauma and grieving processes and how to support their staff, students, neighborhood, and/or parishioners.
- Create and facilitate workshops and support groups for staff, case managers, teachers, etc.
- Workshops and support groups for those the organization serves
Individual, couple, and family therapy for anyone significantly impacted by the incident.
How to Work with CTR
Our relationships in our neighborhoods, schools, communities, service organizations, workplaces, and faith communities are fundamental to our well-being. Everyone feels the impact when a tragedy impacts these spaces or someone in these groups.
CFR’s therapists are experts in relationships and how strong relationships are the primary buffer against the negative impacts of traumatic experiences. Our therapists are experts in supporting groups (be they businesses or non-profit leadership teams, colleagues, school communuties, neighbors, or parishioners) to navigate grief, loss, and traumatic experiences.
These interventions can be ongoing and extend beyond the immediate crisis to address clinical needs that may arise several weeks or months after an initial crisis/community loss.
Contact Dr. Sara Corse, Director of Community Partnerships Initiative, to learn more about CTR.
Meet our Team
Mike Butera, MFT
Mike Butera, MFT
Mike supports the mental and relational wellness of individuals, couples, and families. He provides unique and creative ways to guide therapy participants through life’s inevitable challenges. He shapes space for a collaborative, culturally sensitive, and trauma-informed therapeutic experience that is tailored to each person. He strives to foster emotional safety and relational attunement by constructing...
Specialty Areas: Artists and Athletes, Communication, Community Partnerships Initiative, Community Trauma Response, Depression and Anxiety, Divorce, Life Transitions, Men's Issues, Relationship Issues, Self-Discovery/Self-Analysis, Trauma, Veterans, Active Military, and Their Families
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Sara J. Corse, PhD
Sara J. Corse, PhD
Dr. Corse is a dynamic clinical psychologist with over 30 years of experience working with individuals, couples and families. Clients are drawn to Dr. Corse for her engaging style, her deep caring and her effectiveness in helping clients resolve and heal troubling emotions and relationships. Her approach is integrative and includes the use of EMDR...
Specialty Areas: Affairs and Infidelity, Chronic Illness, Communication, Community Partnerships Initiative, Community Trauma Response, Depression and Anxiety, Diversity Issues and Intermarriage, Grief, Loss, and Bereavement, Life Transitions, Mood Disorders, Parenting, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Relationship Issues, Remarried/Blended Issues, Stress, Trauma, Veterans, Active Military, and Their Families, Women's Issues
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Amy Jones, MSW, MFT, LCSW
Amy Jones, MSW, MFT, LCSW
Amy’s strengths as a clinician are working with young adults, young couples, and women who have survived traumatic events, including ongoing interpersonal trauma, and who want support to process these experiences in order to show up more fully for their lives in the present. She also really enjoys supporting individuals and couples as they are...
Specialty Areas: Community Trauma Response, Depression and Anxiety, Disabled People/People with Disabilities, Diversity Issues and Intermarriage, Interpersonal Violence/Abuse, Life Transitions, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Relationship Issues, Self-Discovery/Self-Analysis, Trauma, Veterans, Active Military, and Their Families, Women's Issues, Work/Life Balance
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Emma Steiner, MSW, MFT, ...
Emma Steiner, MSW, MFT, LCSW
Ms. Steiner is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over ten years of experience working as a psychotherapist in Philadelphia. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Arts and Sciences as well as the Graduate School of Social Policy and Practice, she returned to train at Council for Relationships in order to gain a...
Specialty Areas: Addiction and Substance Abuse, Communication, Community Partnerships Initiative, Community Trauma Response, Depression and Anxiety, Grief, Loss, and Bereavement, LGBTQ+ Affirming, Life Transitions, Mood Disorders, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Premarital Issues, Relationship Issues, Self-Discovery/Self-Analysis, Stress, Trauma, Veterans, Active Military, and Their Families, Women's Issues
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