TTMF Parent Support Mentor Training

via Zoom

Tuesday, August 25

7:00 to 8:30 PM

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Mentor Training will focus on trauma-informed care with special considerations for meeting today’s NICU families’ needs.  

Presented by Kara Wahlin from NICU Healing. 

Kara Wahlin is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who practices in Southern California. Kara is trained in art therapy and postmodernism, and incorporates those modalities into her therapeutic practice. Kara went through spontaneous preterm labor with her fraternal twin boys William and Elliott at 26 weeks in her pregnancy. When the hospital was unable to stop the labor with numerous means, she gave birth to the boys at 26 weeks, 6 days. They were immediately transferred to the NICU and put on life support. After a brief “honeymoon”, William’s health quickly deteriorated. He passed away when he was one week old. Elliott faced his own challenges in the NICU: jaundice, breathing assistance, PDA ligation, blood transfusions, anemia of prematurity, reflux, bradycardia and apnea spells, and difficulty coordinating the suck swallow breathe reflex. He spent 88 days in the NICU, and came home just shy of his actual due date. 

NICU Healing provides parents with a set of tools for coping and thriving with a new set of challenges put to them by having a medically complex or premature baby that were developed by a therapist who went through a similar experience.