Professional Education for Helping Professionals
Anchored in Faith.
Grounded in Science.
The Faith and Science Institute equips therapists, healthcare professionals, first responders, ministry leaders, and other helping professionals with practical training that honors both deeply held faith and sound clinical science.
"Our goal is not to choose between faith and research. It is to thoughtfully integrate both in ways that support ethical care, meaningful healing, and the whole person."
500+
Helping Professionals Served
120+
CEU Credit Hours
24
Training Topics
For many helping professionals, faith is an important part of how they understand people, suffering, meaning, and healing. At the same time, ethical practice requires us to remain grounded in research, clinical standards, and the growing understanding of the brain and nervous system. The Faith and Science Institute was created to bring those worlds together — without spiritual bypassing, shame, coercion, or abandoning clinical integrity.
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Training That Goes Beyond Symptoms
People are more than a diagnosis. Trauma can affect the brain and nervous system, but it can also change how a person understands themselves, other people, God, safety, purpose, and the meaning of what happened to them. Effective care sometimes requires us to address all of those dimensions.
Explore All Trainings- Trauma and the nervous system
- Moral injury
- PTSD and complex trauma
- Shame, guilt, and identity
- Parts work
- EMDR-informed concepts and interventions
- Somatic and nervous-system regulation
- Burnout and secondary traumatic stress
- Faith, meaning, and spiritual distress
- Ethical integration of Christian faith into clinical care
- Working with first responders, veterans, and healthcare professionals
Featured Training
Invisible Wounds: Beyond PTSD — Recognizing and Treating Moral Injury
Trauma is not always rooted in fear. For first responders, veterans, healthcare professionals, and others exposed to morally complex situations, suffering may center around guilt, shame, betrayal, responsibility, or a loss of trust in oneself, others, leadership, or God. This training helps professionals recognize moral injury, distinguish it from traditional trauma responses, and understand treatment approaches that support moral repair, meaning-making, and healing.
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Four Pillars of Integrative Training
Faith-Anchored
We approach faith as a meaningful source of identity, values, connection, resilience, and meaning — while respecting each person's autonomy and spiritual experience.
Science-Grounded
Training content is informed by current research, neuroscience, trauma theory, and established therapeutic approaches.
Trauma-Informed
We prioritize safety, consent, dignity, nervous-system awareness, and an understanding of how trauma shapes behavior, beliefs, relationships, and meaning.
Ethically Integrated
Faith should never be used to shame, minimize suffering, pressure clients, or replace competent clinical care. We teach professionals to integrate spiritual considerations thoughtfully and within their professional scope.
About the Founder
Leilani Mason, LICSW-S, PIP
Leilani Mason is a licensed clinical social worker, EMDR Certified Therapist and EMDRIA Approved Consultant, trauma specialist, educator, and owner of Healthy Minds Consulting in Atmore, Alabama. Her clinical work focuses on trauma, PTSD, moral injury, anxiety, grief, and the unique experiences of first responders, military veterans, healthcare professionals, and other helping professionals. Through The Faith and Science Institute, Leilani brings together her clinical experience, professional education, trauma research, and Christian faith to help professionals approach healing with both clinical rigor and compassion.
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Looking for a training for your clinical team, hospital, church, first responder agency, conference, or community organization? The Faith and Science Institute offers customized professional education ranging from introductory workshops to half-day and full-day trainings. Topics can be tailored to the needs of your organization and audience.
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