Holding The Helper
PROFESSIONAL PRACTITIONER TOOLKIT
FOR PRACTITIONERS WHO HOLD SPACE FOR THE PEOPLE HOLDING EVERYONE ELSE TOGETHER…
Support the helper. Without losing yourself in the process.
PROFESSIONAL PRACTITIONER TOOLKIT
Companion resource to Holding the Helper: Supporting the Cancer Caregiver
Practical tools. Nervous system support. Real-life strategies. A more sustainable you.
What's Inside?
YOU ALREADY KNOW HOW TO CARE.
This toolkit helps you bring structure to the way you hold.
ACCESS THE PROFESSIONAL PRACTITIONER TOOLKIT
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For use within your existing professional qualifications and scope of practice.
Are you a practitioner supporting caregivers?
If you have changed your mind after purchasing the book, get the Practitioner Bonus Resources: A ‘quick reference guide’ for therapists, oncology nurses, counsellors, massage therapists, kinesiology and hypnotherapy practitioners, paired with printable client journal sheets.
These resources have been built alongside the book, not to replace it.
√ Practitioner Trauma Informed Workbook
√ Printable Client Journal Sheets
√ Practitioner Self Reflection Journal prompts
√ Not sold separately, bundle pricing only.
Product Information
The Professional Practitioner Toolkit is a practical, trauma-informed companion resource designed to help YOU as a practitioner, confidently support cancer caregivers through the emotional, physical and nervous-system impact of caregiving.
Use it alongside Holding the Helper and the Client Journal to bring practical tools, therapeutic language, nervous-system education and regulation strategies into your work.
What's Inside?
The Professional Practitioner Toolkit contains-
- Trauma-informed practice principles
- The Meerkat / Mountain Lion framework
- The three nervous system states and the vagus nerve
- Framework, states and survival-response guidance
- Regulation strategies for use in practice
- Guidance for supporting cancer caregivers across Before Diagnosis, Diagnosis, Treatment and Recovery
- Practitioner self-care and compassion-fatigue reflection
- ACT-grounded guided conversation notes
- Trauma-informed practitioner self-check questions
- Eight introductory somatic practices
- Kinesiology switching-point resource
- Australian counselling and referral resources
- Client Journal for between-session reflection
- Practitioner quick-reference desk card
- Scope, licensing and bibliography
Six Features
TRAUMA-INFORMED PRACTICE: Practical principles for creating safety, choice, collaboration and appropriate pacing within sessions.
NERVOUS SYSTEM FRAMEWORK: Understand the Meerkat and Mountain Lion framework, autonomic nervous-system states, the vagus nerve and survival responses.
PRACTITIONER CONVERSATION TOOLS: ACT-grounded language and therapeutic prompts to support reflection without rushing to fix the client’s experience.
SOMATIC SUPPORT TOOLS: Simple nervous-system practices that can be introduced appropriately within your professional scope.
CLIENT JOURNAL: A structured companion resource supporting client reflection through the four stages of the cancer-caregiving journey, plus big feelings and asking for help.
PRACTITIONER SELF-REFLECTION: Tools for recognising compassion fatigue, transference, your own activation and when additional professional support may be needed.
Not another workbook. A resource you can actually use in the room.
LEARN IT. Understand the nervous-system framework behind Holding the Helper.
USE IT. Bring practical language, questions and regulation tools into appropriate client conversations.
GIVE IT. Use the Client Journal to support reflection and awareness between sessions.
CHECK YOURSELF. Build practitioner reflection and compassion-fatigue awareness into the way you work.
One framework. Two nervous systems to support. Your client's. And yours.
