Find steadiness.
Discover what’s possible.
Support for anxiety, stress, and life’s difficult experiences. Space for deeper understanding and lasting growth.
Lee Michael Vance, PsyD, ACC
Stronger people.
More resilient organizations.
Practical, evidence-informed training and consultation for human-services agencies, schools, nonprofits, and organizations navigating demanding work.
Strengthen workforce resilience, support leaders, and equip teams with tools they can use every day.
Discuss a Training or Consultation →Lee Michael Vance, PsyD, ACC
Areas of Expertise
Training shaped around the actual challenges your workforce faces, with practical strategies rather than information alone.
Workforce Resilience
Equip staff to recognize stress, regulate their responses, recover from demanding experiences, and sustain their well-being.
- Stress regulation and recovery
- Burnout prevention
- Practical resilience skills
- Sustainable self-care practices
Trauma-Informed Practice
Understand the effects of trauma exposure on staff, teams, and organizational systems.
- Secondary traumatic stress
- Vicarious resilience
- Trauma-informed communication
- Connection as a protective resource
Leadership & Supervision
Help supervisors respond effectively to workplace stress while strengthening trust, communication, and team functioning.
- Supportive supervision
- Managing high-stress interactions
- Staff engagement and strengths
- Leadership under pressure
Communication & Team Health
Develop healthier communication, navigate conflict constructively, and strengthen workplace relationships.
- Emotional intelligence
- Conflict navigation
- Nonviolent Communication
- Team connection and psychological safety
Experience in the Field
My approach is informed by advanced education in psychology, experience in human-services environments, and direct work with organizations facing complex demands.
Human Services & Public Welfare
Developed and delivered a 12-module workplace resilience program for county Department of Social Services personnel, including frontline, administrative, and supervisory staff.
Training focuses on practical stress regulation, cognitive flexibility, personal strengths, workplace relationships, and recovery.
Trauma-Exposed Workforces
Provided training for victim-services professionals on secondary traumatic stress, nervous-system regulation, vicarious resilience, and the role of connection in staff well-being.
Additional professional work includes resilience education and consultation for human-services and community-based organizations.
Training & Consulting Formats
Engagements are tailored to your workforce, organizational goals, and available time.
Focused presentations, interactive workshops, and half-day or full-day staff development.
Structured learning experiences that build resilience and practical skills over time.
Customized support for supervisors, leaders, teams, and organizational challenges.
Practical. Interactive. Grounded in Research.
- Relevant: Content adapted to the responsibilities and pressures of your workforce.
- Experiential: Opportunities to practice regulation, communication, and resilience skills.
- Immediately useful: Strategies participants can apply during the workday.
- Collaborative: Training developed around organizational priorities and needs.
My background includes a doctorate in clinical psychology, graduate education in psychology and theology, and an ACC coaching credential.
Let's discuss what your team needs.
Whether you're planning a professional development day, addressing staff stress, or exploring ongoing organizational support, I'd welcome a conversation.
Discuss a Training or Consultation →My Foundational Belief
"Humans aren’t broken. Bones break. Systems break. Communication breaks. Understanding breaks. We are pained, but not broken. We are shaped by habits, but not defined by them. If you’re breathing right now, nothing is broken.
The best therapy, the best science, and the best of religion return us to this truth: we are already whole—and from here, healing unfolds.”