Professional Development

Laurie Heyl, LCSW – The Coach’s Coach  

Whether you’re a newly credentialed EFT Practitioner, a Forward Facing® Coach, or a seasoned  therapist expanding your practice, EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) and Forward Facing® Health  and Wellness Coaching can help you pursue your purpose, passion, and calling while caring for yourself and your clients.  

As a therapist with more than 25 years of experience in private practice, an Accredited, Certified  Advanced EFT Practitioner, and a Certified Forward Facing Health & Wellness Coach, I’m passionate  about coaching and mentoring Practitioners and Coaches who are ready to share EFT (Emotional  Freedom Techniques) and Forward Facing® Coaching strategies with clients, colleagues and peers.  

Forward Facing® Coaches 

With programs like Forward Facing® Content for Clients,© and Forward  Facing® Presentations for Professionals© I help Forward Facing Health & Wellness Coaches and  Forward Facing Professional Resilience Coaches share Forward Facing concepts and with clients,  colleagues and peers in concise, conversational language.  

EFT Practitioners  

As an Accredited, Certified Advanced EFT Practitioner & Coach, I offer a variety of programs that will  help you take your EFT skills to the next level. With online courses like BE SPECIFIC: It’s the key to  EFT© and workshops like BE SPECIFIC: From Patterns of the Past to Pathways of Possibility,© you can  earn CPD hours in online groups and workshops while developing your EFT skills with a small  group of colleagues and peers.  

“The same qualities that allow you to be compassionate toward others can leave you vulnerable to a cycle of stress, anxiety, and overwhelm that can lead to compassion fatigue, exhaustion, and burn out.”

Professional Development

In-person & remote coaching

Professional video training courses

Network of like-minded professionals

Successful Slide Presentations: Content For Coaches

This six-week course will help you create, refine, and practice your own, unique Forward Facing®️ presentation so you’ll be ready to share Forward Facing®️ with clients, colleagues, and peers.

You’ll receive,

    • a 15-minute consultation before the course begins
    • a 15-minute consultation at the conclusion of the course
    • sample videos and step-by-step instructions
    • personalized feedback from your instructor and your peers

Successful Slide Presentations: Presentations For Professionals

This six-week course This will help you create, refine, and practice your own, unique Forward Facing®️ presentation so you’ll be ready to share Forward Facing®️ with a professional audience.

You’ll receive,

    • a 30-minute consultation before the course begins
    • a 30-minute consultation at the conclusion of the course
    • sample videos and step-by-step instructions
    • personalized feedback from your instructor and your peers

Compassion Fatique & Secondary Trauma

Compassion Fatigue is a combination of physical, emotional, cognitive, moral, and spiritual  exhaustion that professional care providers experience over time as a result of caring for clients  with a history of trauma.  

Living in a state of chronic stress, anxiety, and overwhelm can lead to compassion fatigue, exhaustion and burn out. It doesn’t have to be that way! 

What if responding to your client’s needs is an  invitation to embark upon a healing journey of your own?

Having worked with children and families in inpatient psychiatric hospitals, partial hospitalization  programs, community mental health centers, and private practice for more than 25 years, I’m  intimately acquainted with the debilitating effects of compassion fatigue.  

Having witnessed the effect of compassion fatigue in the lives of colleagues, clients, and friends,  I’m passionate about equipping coaches and therapists with simple and effective strategies to  prevent the cycle of stress, anxiety, and overwhelm that can lead to compassion fatigue,  exhaustion and burn out.  

Our capacity for self-regulation must keep pace with the level of  dysregulation experienced by those in our care. 

When we experience 

  • demands that exceed our capacity to meet them 
  • insufficient resources to meet significant needs 
  • ongoing exposure to traumatic events, situations and traumatized people
  • threats to personal safety 

we are at risk for developing compassion fatigue.  

Forward Facing® Coaching is based upon the pioneering work of J. Eric Gentry, PhD. Over the  course of several Forward Facing® Coaching sessions, you’ll learn simple and effective strategies to  renew resilience in the midst of the challenges you face every day.  

Research demonstrates that the two key and critical ingredients for the prevention and treatment  of compassion fatigue are the development and maintenance of a non-anxious presence and self validated caregiving

According to Dr. Eric Gentry, attention to these two important areas, along with good self-care,  renders the caregiver 100% resilient to the negative effects of caregiving.  

To maintain a non-anxious presence and self-validation care providers must “re-fill” themselves  with nurturing and active experiences.  

As it turns out, the best treatment and prevention for compassion fatigue is to live a good life.  J. Eric Gentry, PhD

Learn how you can begin to develop this essential foundation for self-regulation as you reconnect  with yourself and those you love.  

If their traumas have become your traumas…I can help

Let’s connect.

Contact me to schedule a complimentary consultation. I’ll be in touch with you soon.

Contact Information

2201 Lakeside Drive, Bannockburn, IL 600015