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Sarah offers dynamic, evidence-based trainings that can be tailored to meet the unique needs of your workplace or community. Whether you're a school, healthcare system, first responder agency, or corporate team, her sessions are adapted to reflect your culture, goals, and challenges—ensuring the content is both relevant and impactful. From suicide prevention and trauma-informed care to peer support and resilience-building, Sarah equips participants with practical tools and compassionate insight to foster safer, more supportive environments.

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  • This presentation can be given in a keynote format providing a basic overview of the concept of Soul Exhaustion and Soul Care or in a workshop format. Please discuss with Sarah directly to explore what option fits best for you. A webinar on this topic can be found at Sarahgaer.com

  • Psychological First Aid provides trainees with a background knowledge of trauma response and basic skills to provide support to an individual after a potentially traumatic event. PFA is an evidence informed and modular approach to assist individuals and families throughout the lifespan. PFA was orginally designed to provide psychological support in the aftermath of disasters and terrorism but is now a widely utilized model for any potentially traumatic event (suicide death, violence, accidents).

  • Topics: neurobiology of Toxic and Traumatic Stress, warning signs of both, and provides skills to build resilience.

  • Topics: QPR gatekeeper Suicide Prevention Training (Question, Persuade & Refer)

    This training can be tailored for the specific audiences needs, to include discussing topics such as:

    • Youth Suicide

    • Depression

    • Substance Use

    • Trauma

    • And More.

  • This full day training prepares participants to become certified QPR trainers.

    Audience members will learn the basics around suicide risk and warning signs, how to provide QPR in action, as well as being able to provide the QPR Training.

  • Topics: Introduction to NNSI and it’s relationship to suicidal intensity/suicide. This training can be combined with QPR.

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“The instructor was wonderful and the material was very well laid out and informative. I feel prepared to utilize this information immediately.”

“This is the first time I have had a training in this material and I feel ready to implement what I learned immediately. Good reminder to focus on remembering how to manage crises in the moment I feel more able to manage crisis situations with the skills learned at this training. I have already been able to apply the skills and information from this training to my practice.”

“This was an awesome training! Sarah was amazing and we absolutely need to have her back. She could definitely do a full day on this and I would love to hear more. It’s “101” but I still learned so much after being in the field for 20 years. Thank you!!!”

“This was one of the best trainings I have attended. The presenter was very knowledgable and held my attention. I loved this training and actually wished it was a day and a half. I found the information so engaging and applicable. Excellent training. A lot of real world info from trainer’s experience was used as examples and was helpful, didn’t know what PFA was until this training.”

“Sarah was great. She was very knowledgeable and amazing. I will be looking for more trainings from her! This was probably the best training I’ve attended at NHADACA in a long time, if not ever. Please bring this instructor back on a wider variety of lessons!”

“Sarah was amazing! I have struggled in this type of training in the past due to presentors being mortality focused/ all data driven with events connected. Having Sarahs outlook was a eye opener she was very engaging”