For Clinicians
Social Work & Clinical Training
Thoughtful, practical learning experiences for clinicians, teams, and organizations seeking trauma-informed, affirming care.
Learning That Expands Practice
Christa McCrorie, LICSW-S, PIP; CD (DONA); CST (SHA) offers engaging training grounded in clinical experience, professional education, and a trauma-informed, affirming perspective.
Programs can be tailored for clinicians, agencies, universities, and community organizations across the Birmingham metro area and beyond.
Training Topics
Bringing Disciplines Together to Strengthen Practice
Christa offers training across clinical practice, sexuality, trauma, LGBTQ+ and gender-affirming care, perinatal mental health, and social work education. Programs can be adapted for clinicians, social workers, healthcare professionals, educators, agencies, universities, and community organizations.
Trauma-Informed & Embodied Practice
Training that helps professionals understand trauma, safety, regulation, and the ways the body can shape clinical experiences. Topics may include trauma-informed practice, EMDR, somatic and embodied approaches, nervous-system awareness, emotional regulation, therapeutic presence, and building safety and connection in clinical relationships.
Sex Therapy & Sexuality
Inclusive education for professionals seeking greater confidence discussing sexuality and sexual wellbeing with clients. Topics may include sex therapy, sexual health, desire, intimacy, communication, relationships, sexual shame, purity culture, consensual non-monogamy, LGBTQ+ sexuality, and sex-positive clinical practice.
LGBTQ+ & Gender-Affirming Care
Practical training for professionals working with LGBTQ+ clients, families, and communities. Topics may include gender identity, sexual orientation, transgender and nonbinary experiences, gender-affirming care, coming out, LGBTQ+ relationships, inclusive language, and creating affirming clinical environments.
Perinatal Mental Health & Birth
Education for professionals supporting individuals and families through pregnancy, birth, postpartum transitions, and reproductive experiences. Topics may include perinatal mental health, birth-informed practice, queer families, LGBTQ+ perinatal support, reproductive justice, perinatal loss, infertility, and the emotional transitions of becoming a parent.
Social Work Education & Clinical Practice
Training designed to strengthen clinical skills, professional development, and social work practice. Topics may include clinical social work, ethical decision-making, clinical supervision, humanizing the supervisory relationship, embodied social work, interdisciplinary collaboration, professional identity, and improving social work education.
“I thought that professor McCrorie did a really great job teaching us… I appreciate so much the energy and excitement that she brought to class. I also appreciate the thoughtfulness that she approached our concerns and fears with and how she joined with us… I am so very thankful for the effort that she put into helping our class explore… she has a lot of energetic personality… She is a very approachable individual that very clearly cares and is excited about and for the next generation of social workers, and that should be celebrated.”