When care needs structure, and structure needs care.

Survivor-centered consulting for organizations doing emotionally complex work. Trauma-informed engagement, designed with clarity and compassion.

Trauma-informed isn’t a checkbox. It’s a culture.

If you serve survivors, families, frontline providers, or communities impacted by violence or loss, how you show up matters just as much as what you offer.

This kind of care requires structure, safety, and humility. Without that, even well-meaning programs can retraumatize or push people away.

Trauma-informed design is about creating systems that protect dignity, reduce harm, and allow people to participate without pressure, shame, or risk.

Survivor-Led Program Development

  • Support for designing or evolving programs rooted in lived experience, with co-leadership from those most impacted.

  • Nonprofits, peer-led coalitions, or funders looking to build alongside survivor communities.

  • Ethical infrastructure, shared ownership, and practices that protect emotional safety.

Ethical Storytelling + Narrative Recovery

  • Support for building storytelling strategies that center agency, not trauma.

  • Comms teams, funders, survivor advocates, and nonprofits.

  • Narrative practices that avoid exploitation, reduce retraumatization, and elevate impact without harm.

Year-marks, public Grief + Rememberance

  • Support for planning public-facing remembrance events with survivors at the center, including advisory groups, messaging, and ceremonial design.

  • Memorial committees, municipalities, survivor groups, and funders.

  • A respectful process that honors complexity, diverse needs, and emotional timelines.

I collaborate with survivors, leaders, funders, and clinicians to co-design support that’s both strategic and emotionally attuned.

This work is never one-size-fits-all.

Listen

Co-Design

Build

Support onsite + Aftercare

Ideal for:

Survivor-led nonprofits

Funders supporting trauma-impacted communities

Disaster and crisis response organizations

Government agencies coordinating long-term recovery

Memorial foundations and year-mark planning committees

Design with care, not guesswork.

Start with a Free Resource

Whether you’re building a peer-led support space, running a small nonprofit, or advising on public memorials, trauma-informed practice is essential and often misunderstood.

The JG CoLab Starter Kit gives you simple, actionable tools to help you lead with care. From trust-building prompts to organizational wellness checklists, this resource is a significant first step toward embedding compassion into every layer of your work.

It’s not a clinical guide, and it’s not meant to be. It’s a starting point built by people who’ve been in the work, designed for teams ready to lead with empathy.

structure is care.

When you’re supporting survivors, the systems you build become the care. I help you shape those systems with thoughtfulness, transparency, and long-term sustainability.