Transform Trauma: Neuroscience-based Skills for Healing and Growth


Join us for this reward-eligible webinar, which is part of the monthly series of emotional well-being webinars offered by FEAP and Hoos Well, UVA's award-winning employee well-being program.

This time in history has impacted most everyone as we have collectively experienced trauma with the pandemic.  In this workshop, Joyce Camden, LCSW, will provide trauma-based knowledge and skills to move forward from difficult times. Specifically, she will offer an expanded understanding of how the brain in a person who has experienced trauma can have triggers and automatic reactions that restrict their sense of control and empowerment.  From that understanding, skills of overriding automatic brain reactions can be developed.  And from that process, healing options can increase and life experience can significantly improve.

Learning Objectives

  1. Increase neurological understanding of trauma effects on the brain.
  2. Develop awareness of direct skills to override flashbacks.
  3. Increase skills to promote a more holistic narrative of traumatic life events.
  4. Expand awareness of possible traumatic effects from the pandemic on self and society.

About your presenter

Joyce Camden, LCSW, is a Consultant and Trauma Specialist with UVA FEAP.  She has extensive clinical experience dealing with individual, couples, families and adolescents. In addition, Ms. Camden has training and experience in crisis/trauma work, cognitive-behavioral therapy, mindfulness, mediation, career coaching, and solution focused therapy. Ms. Camden has provided Ethics workshops for Mental Health Professionals and has offered multiple forms of volunteer work in the Charlottesville community throughout her professional career. She additionally holds memberships with the Virginia Society of Clinical Social Workers and the National Association of Social Workers and, is the Social Worker Consultant for The Center for Ethical Practice.


This event will be recorded by audio and video means. By participating, you grant the University of Virginia the right to use your voice/likeness in any depiction of this event. Video is not required to participate in this event.

The University of Virginia is committed to providing universal access to all of our events. Please contact us at EmotionalWellbeing@virginia.edu, at least seven days prior to the start of this event, to request disability-related accommodations.

Register for webinar, April 25 at 3:30pm