Ep. 41: Taking a Trauma Informed Approach Ft. Certified Trauma Support Specialist & SLP Kim Neely
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What is trauma‑informed care and why does it matter for speech‑language pathologists?
What's up everyone and welcome to Making the Shift.
We're an SLP couple from California with three boys and a passion for finding better ways to support autistic kids.
I'm Chris. You might know me as speech dude. I'm a Neurodivergent High School SLP and the creator of the Dynamic Assessment of Social Emotional Learning, and I specialize in crafting neurodiversity affirming IEPs through my online course.
And I'm Jesse, a sensory integration trained SLP, owner of a top-rated clinic in Los Angeles, and the creator of the Inside Out Sensory Communication Programs for Parents and Therapists. Join us weekly to learn neurodiversity affirming ways to support social, emotional development, and regulation in autistic kids.
Are you ready to make the shift?
Hello everyone and welcome to Making the Shift. Today we are joined by Kim Neely, who is an SLP, and she is known for her podcast, The Trauma Informed SLP. And we actually met at Asha, so we were Me and Chris were in a presentation on neurodiversity and then I think you came up to us maybe at the end and we started chatting.
Yeah. I sort of snuck in. I was at a different talk that wasn't quite as what I wanted it to be, so I snuck in the back and I think I ran into you guys.
Yeah, and it w that was a great one too. I
will say fantastic.
Kev and I had this immediate connection. We're like, boom, we're eye to eye. We understood each other and that was great.
Absolutely. Absolutely. These are my yeah, so we got my two ADHD or friends on the line today. So Kim, maybe you can tell everyone a little bit about how you got to this place of specializing in trauma-informed care and we're really excited because this is like I was telling you before we hit record, this is something that we've we talk about all the time and something we've been wanting to bring to the show. But maybe you could just tell us a little bit about what brought you here.
Uh absolutely. So um I came into this field later. I was a musician first, uh did opera for a little bit. And then I graduated in 2014 with my masters. I did a couple years of a PhD at University of Arizona, didn't finish, but tried to do neuroscience. So I did some neuroscience classes there at the PhD level. Um and then I went to the Bay Area. My spouse got a job, um, because he's in engineering, so that's where you go. So we went over there and I ended up doing some work in Oakland. particularly with kids with behavioral things usually related to trauma, typically in Oakland. I also did um a contract one day a week with a specifically PTSD treatment focused school. For kids who were removed from typical school due to their
their behaviors there. And um in Oakland also. So that was kind of where I really started getting a heavy dose of it, I would say, in terms of learning about trauma triggers. I also went through my own mental health, of course, during our grad school because it's a little stressful. So that helps. Um I've had my own developmental trauma history and my ADHD diagnosis was actually much later. It was in I was I'm forty three now. I think I was diagnosed thirty nine, forty. So Um, which is kind of good because I think I had to work out my own trauma first to figure out the nerd divergency part. Um, and then when the pandemic hit, I was already pretty interested in all those trauma informed things. And then when the pandemic hit, I ended up taking an online graduate school course um with CSU, uh, since we had moved to Colorado by then, which is where we are now.
Um, so that was kind of my sourdough starter. I don't eat gluten anyway, so that worked out really well. Um, but I took a course there and then I wanted to kept, you know, I get hyper focused on it. So I want to keep going. So I ended up taking some extra courses through Arizona Trauma Training Institute online. So I have the certification as a trauma support specialist. The last couple of years prior to this year starting up all this, I was working at a Title One high school in Thornton, Colorado for a couple of years, dealing with a lot of that where a lot of those kids in SPED, um, whether they had mental health or not, they tend to think of us as mental health because they come and talk to us for an hour.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is trauma‑informed care and why does it matter for speech‑language pathologists?
0:08–9:02
2
How did Kim Neely’s personal and professional journey lead her to specialize in trauma‑informed SLP work?
9:02–17:39
3
What are the core components of a trauma‑informed approach in schools and clinical settings?
17:39–24:24
4
How do fight, flight, freeze, and fawn responses appear in autistic children and what do they look like?
24:24–30:18
5
Why is the ‘freeze’ response often overlooked in classrooms and how can educators recognize it?
30:18–34:56
6
What strategies can parents and clinicians use to model regulation and create safety for neurodivergent kids?
34:56–38:24
7
How can children develop self‑awareness of their bodies and emotions through tools like energy meters?
38:24–39:01
8
Where can listeners find Kim’s resources, podcast, and get in touch for speaking or training?
39:01–39:08
Speakers
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