The Collaborative LLC

12/08/2025

Molly and her colleague with Amidst the Trees are providing a *free* training this Thursday December 11 at 12:00 PM CST focused on learning how somatic-based interventions can enhance trauma treatment by addressing dysregulated states through body-centered techniques.

Register and learn more here:

Thursday, December 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM Central Standard Time.

12/04/2025

12/04/2025

Check out Dr. Clifford's latest Blog Post: We're Using the Oxygen Mask Metaphor Wrong-- a reframe for parents of kids with complex needs.

I just got back from some plane travel and as always, heard the familiar line: “Put your own oxygen mask on first before helping others” during the safety spiel.This is something we say repeatedly in the parenting and therapy spaces, particularly for parents who are having a hard time. It often ...

11/13/2025

Yoga Nidra, commonly known as yogic sleep, is a practice to experience a state of consciousness between waking and sleeping states. Here, the physical body rests, but the brain wakes up and monitors the physical body. In other words, yoga nidra is mental sleep, sleep with full consciousness. It is said that 1 hour of yoga nidra equals 4 hours of sleep.
Join us for a yoga series this January! We'll meet over Zoom, 6:30-7:30pm for 4 weeks in January on Thursday nights! (8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th)

Sign up on our website, amidstthetrees.com/events and scroll down to our yoga series!

10/31/2025

Halloween can bring up a lot - rushing, anticipating meltdowns, navigating grief, remembering complicated childhoods. When we're not resourced, we're more likely to get snappy with kids at the door, with our own kids, with ourselves.

This visualization is a way to bring a little magic back to YOU, so you can be resourced for today.

Even just a few minutes of this can help you move through tonight with more groundedness and less reactivity.

Check out the blog post &/or instagram post to access an experiential for you, the grown up, today.

Halloween can be overwhelming for so many reasons. Infertility, parenting, your own childhood halloweens, fear, etc. Let's take a few moments to reduce your overwhelm. So your own little selves and other kids can feel the magic that can be Halloween.

10/08/2025

For many, the one-month mark post-trauma can be a pivotal point. In recognizing the Annunciation community is moving well into the one-month mark, I wanted to provide some information as other streams of support and info can potentially start to slow down.

When the Shock Starts to FadeThe first days after a tragedy are often dominated by shock, adrenaline, and survival. For those of you who've experienced mass trauma, you're often so surrounded by community, that you're feeling held and supportive in a way that may now be shifting. Around weeks 4 and....

09/30/2025

On the blog today: Phone a Friend! Trauma Sensitive Strategies from an OT written by
Practical things you can do today to help yourself and those you love who are in the 'after' of a traumatic event. Thanks to Dr. Sheryl Butler, MA, OTD, OTR/L for writing this one!

Written by Dr. Sheryl Butler, MA, OTD, OTR/L , OT Connections Minnesota Hello Dear Readers,Today we have a real treat for you. Dr. Butler has written an incredible post from her OT brain on strategies that can be helpful in the days after trauma. These are real, practical things you can do to help y...

09/30/2025

It’s not too late to join! We could all use a little bit of learning on this! Join Molly and her colleague, Lisa at 1:00 today!

Join Lisa and Molly for a CEU event sponsored by HazeldenBettyFord, like a lunch and learn. Register on Hazelden's website

09/29/2025

Molly has published a book!
Amidst the Trees is proud to be sponsoring the Mariah’s Way, Finding a Forever Home book launch. This wonderful book, written by Molly DePrekel and Mary Schoessler, is designed to help youth in trauma cope with challenging situations through a tender story about a foster dog, Mariah, and her journey to peace and belonging. Mariah’s Way helps the reader connect with Mariah’s emotions of fear and sadness along with seeing that there is hope as Mariah finds her way into a forever home and eventually becomes a therapy dog. Mariah’s Way includes a workbook with thought-provoking questions that can be used for therapeutic, classroom, or personal reflection purposes.

We'd love to see you at our book launch on October 7th!

09/02/2025

💬 In light of recent events in Minneapolis, Dr. Clifford started a new blog meant to offer real-time, accessible information for families and communities who may be navigating trauma.

These posts are short, compassionate resources that normalize common responses after traumatic events and share what I hope will be practical ways to support yourself and others.

My hope is that this series will serve as a steadying presence—something anyone can return to in the midst of overwhelm.

For the Annunciation community: This will provide a once daily, timely, digestible, supportive resource for what they are likely to be experiencing in real-time.

Read the first & second posts here & if you are aligned with the content, please feel free to share it : https://www.thecollaborativemn.com/blog

I also started an instagram to relay condensed version of what's in the blog and provide another point of access: Instagram: ( https://www.instagram.com/drmeghanclifford/ )

Please feel free to share widely—this is for anyone who may need it.
Read more here: https://wix.to/dcBCPpG


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The Collaborative, LLC is made up of independant providers. We do not have one central phone line or email. For more information, please reach out to the individual provider. 

04/24/2025

Midwest Center for EMDR Training has several excellent upcoming trainings.

Check out their website for more info: https://midwestemdrtraining.com/

1. Fall 2025 Basic Training by Patti Miller, MA, LP, ANdrea Patten, MSW, LICSW, ANgela DelFiacco, MA, LMFT, & Ashley Myhre, PHD, MA, LMFT
Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSevFdQ_E9AbfTw_eUNE-BIiIQ7iVgAuuhZdCybvLiJ9auavuQ/viewform

2. Summer Series of Advanced Trainings including:
- EMDR Basics to Special Protocol (12 CEU)
- EMDR Refresher Course (6 CEU)
- Complex Trauma, Dissociation, & EMDR Therapy (12 CEU)
- Kid Refresher (save the date! Info and registration coming soon!)