consulting services
with ed denison, MA, MSW, LICSW
What does success mean to you?
With experience spanning over 20 years supporting folks as they succeed, I naturally look forward to sharing what I’ve come to understand about navigating systems and surpassing your goals in the face of external and internal challenges.
Here, in one place, I share my knowledge and experience in various formats to more fully support your learning - think audio, visual, and experiential. Downloadable content coming soon.
Scroll around and come back when you can. Hourly, prorated and retainer agreements available.
Professional Consulting
We all do better with someone in our corner. Someone encouraging us, reminding us of the goals we want to pass, and lending their knowledge and expertise to us. To set aside a time to get support, consider consultation. Professional consultation is not supervision or psychotherapy and is not intended to be a replacement for them.
The intention is to answer all your current questions while we co-create strategies for your goals. If there’s something I don’t know, I’ll work to find the answer for you. We will collaborate on how often we meet and support is available between group meetings while we work together. You will always leave with resources for the future.
Examples of topics
Cultural curiosity/competency, White-bodied privilege, and implicit bias
Integrating post-traumatic growth and career environments
Working with victims, survivors, and witnesses of crime
Professional misconduct among master-doctorate level providers
Experiencing success while also experiencing stalking, harassment, and/or bullying
Creating a welcoming environment for diverse needs
Support while creating, adjusting, or tracking goals
EMDR Consultation
As you work towards becoming an EMDR Certified Therapist, it is valuable to get consultation from someone who is currently seeing clients on a regular basis and utilizes EMDR with them.
Focus
practitioner well-being
feeling confident with the basics
accommodating neurocomplexities
EMDR Certification hours available
Investment
Group Consultation on the 2nd Thursday of the month for 2 hours
9 am to 11 am (PST) , $500 for 5 groups
Individual consultation by 60 minute appointment - $150
This is a liberatory space where uncomfortable conversations can land.
We honor all identities, ancestry, and share pronouns.
relevant experience
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Advocacy & legislative engagement
Veteran's center services
Small business payroll & accounting, banking, investments
Real Estate
Community mental health & clinical social work
Small Business Founder
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Eastern Washington University, Dual Master Degrees
M.A. , M.S.W.
Western Washington University
B.A. -
Foster care, adoption, and legal systems
Scapegoating
Gender-based violence
Workplace harassment, disability
Post-Traumatic Growth (PTG)
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Crisis Line Specialist
Institutional Grant Evaluator
Crime Victim Advocate
United States Army Veteran
Food and Basic Needs Distribution Center Assistant
EMDRIA member -
tl:dr
Support and encouragement through challenges and success is priceless. Without it, our path is a bit more, let’s say, lively. Work and life led to the natural evolution of becoming a small business founder as a way to pay this concept forward.
»»My work with small businesses began in 2003, weaving through my adult life. I noticed that in spaces where folks do not feel represented, respected, or followed up with appropriately takes a toll on everyone; just like the supremacy culture many of us are indoctrinated into. Let’s face it, this kind of culture is agitating for all of us and even worse for the global majority. Did I work at organizations who appreciated this viewpoint? Nope, and it often led to me getting into “trouble” for advocating for policies that worked for the most vulnerable.
How could anyone deny that there are options for long-term, successful outcomes? Initially, I thought working in advocacy or behind-the-scenes support for healthcare and social service was where I would work on these outcomes. However, my appreciation of the therapeutic process arrived after an experience with EMDR. This experience allowed me to shift my perspective and future in ways I didn’t have access to before. The willingness to say the quiet part of oppression out loud, specializing in success during pain, learning from mistakes, along with a post-traumatic growth (PTG) perspective - could sustain what I wanted to contribute to.A space where secure, inclusive cultures are the norm, not White comfort, exploitation, and fear. I am no savior and cannot do it all. The intention is to remain small as an antidote to “progress is bigger/more”. I think of myself as part of a constellation of like-minded colleagues who are tending to trees they will never sit under.
Personally, those closest to me know I live a cozy, simple life while cherishing moments with my chosen family and friends; near and far. Originally from the stolen lands of the Choctaw Nation (Mississippi), I am a disabled Army veteran, white-bodied, and experience life through a neurocomplex and binary-free lens. Meditation, reality shows, volunteering, and reminding you of your power and agency are a few of my favorite things.
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Below are links to the causes and communities that are close to my heart. Consider supporting them or checking out the resources they offer.
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