Wounded Healers: Church Staff & Leadership Training
Our Approach
At It Is Well, we understand that church leaders often carry both calling and cost. Many church leaders are
Wounded Healers—faithfully serving while carrying unaddressed pain from ministry, leadership betrayal, church hurt, or personal trauma. Our approach honors the sacred nature of ministry while acknowledging the emotional, relational, and psychological realities leaders face behind the scenes.
Our mental health leadership trainings are designed to support pastors, ministry leaders, and church teams with trauma-informed and faith-centered guidance that strengthens both personal well-being and healthy leadership.
We create safe and confidential spaces where leaders can reflect, reset, and grow—without judgment or stigma.
Our "Wounded Healers" Framework Helps Leaders Understand:
- How unhealed wounds and chronic stress can shape decisions and behaviors impacting how one might lead
- Why compassion fatigue, hyperactive responses, or emotional withdrawal occur
- How trauma impacts discernment, communication, and connection
- How healing restores clarity, compassion, and authority
This is not about labeling leaders as broken—it is about tending wounds so leadership can remain healthy and purpose driven.
Services We Provide
Workshops & Training for Church Leadership, Staff, & Congregants
The trainings and workshops offered through It Is Well, equip church leaders and ministry teams with trauma-informed, faith-integrated tools for emotionally healthy leadership. Sessions address burnout, compassion fatigue, boundaries, church hurt, and the impact of stress and trauma on leadership and relationships.
Each workshop is practical, respectful of church culture, and designed to help leaders tend to their own well-being while leading others with greater compassion, clarity, and sustainability.
Core Workshop & Training Themes:
- Emotionally healthy leadership
- Trauma-informed ministry
- Burnout prevention & recovery
- Compassion fatigue & secondary trauma
- Boundaries in leadership
- Healing from church hurt
- The “Wounded Healer” reality in ministry
* Topics will vary and are dependent on the specific needs of the church and/or leadership staff.
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