Our Trauma
Treatment
At Be Well Now, we help individuals heal from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), depression, anxiety, addiction, and other trauma-related challenges using evidence-based treatments such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy. For those struggling with treatment-resistant depression, suicidal ideation, OCD, or PTSD, we also offer Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP). Our team—Joe Klein, LPC; Jessica Talley-Haynes, LPC; and Dr. Mary Hansen, D.O.—brings together skilled therapists and medical professionals to serve adult professionals, veterans, and elders. When community leaders such as teachers, law enforcement officers, first responders, and social service providers address their own untreated stress and trauma, they are better equipped to recognize and respond to the challenges faced by their peers and the people they serve. Veterans and elders both hold valuable skills and wisdom, but their needs for healing often go unmet. Veterans face alarming suicide rates, while many elders experience isolation and depression, particularly in care facilities or when facing the challenges of aging. As more people in our communities regain a sense of wholeness—becoming healthy, connected individuals—we create a ripple effect that strengthens the overall wellness of the community. Be Well Now operates out of the Floyd Event Center, developing programs that serve our local community and also serve as a model for communities throughout—and beyond—Appalachia.
Our Professional
Learning
Helping professionals working with the public are often exposed to high levels of stress and vicarious trauma as they serve individuals and families that are suffering with poverty, mental illness, substance abuse, domestic violence, incarceration, environmental degradation, etc. Much of that suffering is rooted in trauma. These professionals are often overwhelmed by the sheer numbers on their caseloads and by the high levels of stress/trauma the people they serve are experiencing. There are costs from this daily exposure to such stress, trauma and ongoing overwhelment. They often experience compassion fatigue and burnout and the impacts of toxic stress are taken home with them. This can be damaging to their physical health, their family relationships and lead to burnout and job migration out of the field or out of the rural Appalachian region altogether. We will provide ongoing trainings and support for our professional teachers, social workers counselors, law enforcement, corrections officers and fire/rescue personnel. This training has two goals: 1) Raising awareness of the effects of trauma on the people they serve and 2) Awareness of the effects of the vicarious trauma they are taking home in their bodies, minds, hearts and relationships. When the professionals in our major public service sectors are fully Trauma Informed they can more effectively care for themselves, their colleagues and the people they serve with deeper compassion, clarity and effectiveness.
Our Retreats
Since 2010, Be Well Now founder Joe Klein has been teaching a graduate course at Radford University for students entering the helping professions as teachers, counselors, social workers and nurses. Over 200 professionals have been through this eight-week course in Mindfulness as Self Care for Helping Professionals with two dozen daylong and weekend retreats that Joe has led or co-led. He is now poised to carry this leadership forward with Be Well Now. Daylong, weekend and 5-day retreats will be provided for adult professionals, veterans and elders throughout central Appalachia. The relational mindfulness activities on these retreats help participants experience a sense of belonging and connection within themselves and empower them to co-create this experience for each other. They become aware of the importance of caring for the inner life and for the web of relationships with people, animals and all of creation around them. The personal transformation so many experience on these retreats can inspire them for spreading the well-being in their families, schools and community institutions we all share.
