SiLucas - Licensed Psychologist/ International Traumatologist

25/08/2026

Grateful to have met the staff and girls of Worldwide.

P.S. Find me in the video. :)

24/08/2026

Let's bring the expert of experts. Let's invite the BOSS of Traumatology! Excited to learn from her. Let the schedule align. 🙏🙏🙏

In response to the growing concerns surrounding school violence, su***de, safety threats, and other crisis situations, we are currently coordinating with OUR PRESIDENT, Dr. Mary Schoenfeldt, President of the Green Cross Academy of Traumatology (GCAT), for a possible FREE special session on Crisis Response and Deployment.

Dr. Schoenfeldt brings decades of documented experience in emergency management and school and community crisis response in the United States, including response work related to major school-shooting incidents. Her professional background also includes serving as a Faculty Member with the FEMA Emergency Management Institute and as a Subject Matter Expert for the U.S. Department of Education.

For the LIVE SESSION, priority participation will be extended to members of our professional and training community:
TIPS Training Graduates • GCAT Certified Clinical Traumatologists (CCT) • TIPS Training Partners • TIPS Team Members and Consultants

While priority access to the live session will be given to the TIPS and GCAT community, the webinar will be recorded and subsequently shared through the TIPS social media pages for educational purposes, allowing this important learning opportunity to reach a wider audience.

We believe that professionals who may be called upon to respond during a crisis need more than theoretical knowledge. They also need opportunities to learn from professionals with real-world experience in crisis response, deployment, coordination, and recovery.

We are doing our best to bring relevant, practical, and high-level professional learning opportunities to our TIPS and GCAT community across the globe—and, whenever possible, to make these opportunities accessible at no cost.

Stay tuned. We are currently coordinating the details and hope to share more information soon.

24/08/2026

Another year. :)

We are pleased to announce the renewal of the Traumatology Institute and Psychological Services (TIPS) as an accredited Training Site of the Green Cross Academy of Traumatology (GCAT).

This renewal represents the continuation of our partnership with GCAT and our shared commitment to advancing evidence-informed trauma education, professional training, and compassionate service for first responders and trauma-affected individuals and communities.

For TIPS, accreditation is more than a recognition. It carries a responsibility to uphold high standards of professional practice, ethical training, and integrity while preparing mental health professionals and other helping professionals to respond effectively to trauma and crisis.

As we move forward, TIPS remains committed to strengthening the field of traumatology in the Philippines and Asia, developing competent trauma professionals, and creating learning environments that value both excellence in service and the well-being of those who serve.

We extend our sincere appreciation to the Green Cross Academy of Traumatology for the continued trust, partnership, and support.

We look forward to another year of learning, training, service, and meaningful collaboration.

TIPS × Green Cross Academy of Traumatology
Continuing the commitment to trauma education, healing, and service.

22/08/2026

I am choosing to slow down.

It has been years since I received my license as a Psychologist, and since then, my life has felt almost nonstop—moving from one role to another, one responsibility to another, one credential to the next. I have spent so much of myself learning, serving, building, teaching, helping, and trying to make a difference.

And now, I am tired—not just physically, but in almost every aspect of myself.

I have reached a point where I realize that I have nothing left to prove—to other people, to myself, or even to that wounded child within me who, for so many years, became part of the fuel behind my passion for trauma work. She carried pain, but she also carried me a long way. Perhaps now, she no longer needs to keep proving that something meaningful can come from what she endured. Perhaps she, too, deserves to rest.

So I have asked for an indefinite leave to the ONE to whom I once prayed for purpose—the ONE who has been there even before I began this journey on this earth. I asked for purpose, and I believe I was given one. I have tried to honor it with everything I had.

But I have also reached the limits of my human capacity.

I have given what I could, as sincerely and wholeheartedly as I knew how. And I am learning that reaching my limit does not mean that I have failed my purpose. It simply means that I am human. No one can command me to keep giving when there is nothing left from which to give.

The pain in this world will continue. Trauma will continue to exist, and there will always be people who need healing. But I have done my part, and I have done the best that I can. Healing was never meant to rest on the shoulders of one person. No one can make that change for another person entirely. At some point, each of us must also take responsibility for our own healing and make the effort to face what needs to be healed.

For now, I am allowing myself to step back.

To be still. To rest.

To exist outside of my roles, credentials, responsibilities, and the expectations that have accumulated around me over the years.

For so long, I have made caring for others part of my life's work. Now, I am reminding myself that I am also someone entrusted to my own care.

My responsibility, at this point in my life, is myself.

And I think it is finally time that I honor that responsibility.

I do not know how long I need. I do not need to know yet.

For now, it is enough to give myself permission to stop, to rest, and simply be. Polepole

22/08/2026

It took me almost a year before I found the confidence to teach the HEART Model.

One of the reasons was simple: I did not feel qualified to teach a psychospiritual approach.

I am not a theologian. I do not know Scripture as deeply as others do. And perhaps more importantly, I am still working on my own relationship with God. I still have questions, frustrations, and parts of my own spiritual journey that remain unfinished. What I knew was psychology, trauma, and the science of healing. And I knew my own personal encounters with God—experiences and miracles that I could not simply explain away.

So when I began developing the HEART Model workbook, I approached it in the way I knew best: scientifically, psychologically, and through the literature on trauma and healing.

But something became clearer to me while teaching it.

HEART was not simply about healing psychological wounds. It became a process of healing the relationship with the self, the spirit of the person, and God. And I began to see the HEART Model almost like kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold.

The cracks are not erased. The history of brokenness is not denied. Instead, the broken pieces are carefully brought together, and the places where they once separated become part of something whole and meaningful.

In the HEART Model, we work toward repairing and integrating the wounded child self and the adult self. And perhaps, for those who desire spiritual integration, God can become like the gold between those cracks—not erasing what happened, but becoming part of how those fragmented pieces are brought together.

During one of our discussions, a participant spoke about reading Scripture, learning about God through different religions and concepts, and even trying to understand spirituality scientifically.

I told the participant: Perhaps that searching itself is already part of your journey toward God. Perhaps it is a kind of homecoming.

There may be seasons when God feels very far away. There may even be anger, disappointment, doubt, or questions toward God. But I do not necessarily see those questions as the absence of faith.

Sometimes, searching for God is already movement toward repairing our relationship with God.

I know this because I searched too.

After my father died, I searched through Catholic teachings, Islam, Christianity, and even Buddhism. I was trying to understand God, suffering, death, and where God was in all of it.

In 2022, three years after I began intentionally working on my own trauma—both mind and body—I also became intentional about repairing my relationship with God. That was also the year I attended the HEART Model training in the United States.

I realized then that this was the kind of approach I had been looking for: one that allowed psychological healing and spirituality to meet without denying trauma, forcing belief, or pretending that difficult questions about God do not exist.

My own healing journey is still not finished. I still have questions for God. I still experience frustrations. There are still things I do not understand. But after teaching these two days of HEART Model training, something became clearer to me as well:

God has always been there.

There were times when He helped me even when I did not know how to ask for help. But I have also experienced God becoming more present and more deeply incorporated into my life as I intentionally ask for His grace, His wisdom, and His guidance.

Perhaps that is also what healing can look like. Not becoming a person without cracks. But allowing those cracks to become places where healing, meaning, grace, and God can enter.

Like kintsugi, perhaps we do not return to who we were before we were broken. We become integrated—and the places that once represented our brokenness can become part of the story of how we were made whole.

22/08/2026

HEART Model Training Concluded ❤️‍🩹

And just like that, the weather cleared and became warm—just in time for our two-day HEART (Healing Emotional/Affective Responses to Trauma) Model Training. (Blessings from God)

These two days were not only about learning a therapeutic framework or approach. Participants were also given space to reflect, understand, and experience healing themselves—particularly in exploring the psychospiritual dimensions of trauma without requiring anyone to convert, believe in God, or force spiritual answers.

Some reflections from our participants:

“This will help provide a safe space for clients struggling with abuse and spirituality.”

“I recognize I need to work on the whys of the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and start working on the deeper pain perpetuating the cycle.”

“The HEART Model is very helpful, gentle and honoring for the client.”

“This is so far very safe and practical.”

And one reflection that meant so much:

“Thank you, Doc Charlene. This is very helpful for my healing. ♥️”

This is what we hoped HEART would become: a way of working with trauma that goes beyond symptoms to understand deeper pain, fragmented parts, dissociation, and spiritual struggles—while honoring the client's autonomy, readiness, beliefs, and boundaries.

Thank you to everyone who learned, practiced, reflected, and trusted the process with us.

May we continue creating spaces that are safe enough to remember, kind enough to feel, and respectful enough to heal even if it is as difficult as trauma and spirituality. ❤️‍🩹

19/08/2026

First training after Africa.

18/08/2026

Grateful to the Center for Trauma & Resiliency Studies at Divine Mercy University for this Certificate of Appreciation and kind letter recognizing our service in Moshi, Tanzania.

It was a privilege to contribute my time and professional skills in trauma and resiliency work alongside Courage Worldwide Organization and the Green Cross Academy of Traumatology. Tiring but full of learning.

14/08/2026

Values, principles, and integrity may not always earn you money. Sometimes, they may even put you in difficult and uncomfortable positions. But they will earn something far more enduring: respect.

They speak volumes about who you are, what you uphold, and what you are willing to stand for.

We cannot advocate for trauma-informed care, self-care, and the prevention of compassion fatigue while overlooking the exhaustion and well-being of our own team. It is not about challenging authority for the sake of challenging it; it is about having the courage to speak when something no longer aligns with our professional values.

Regardless of seniority, credentials, title, or years of experience, we are all professionals governed by ethical principles and accountable for the care we provide. Being junior does not automatically make someone's professional observation less valid, just as being senior does not make us incapable of overlooking something important.

There are moments when expertise must be accompanied by humility—the willingness to put ego aside, listen to another professional perspective, read the room, and recognize when the very people working alongside us are approaching exhaustion or burnout.

Sometimes integrity costs us comfort, opportunity, or approval. But when the choice is between remaining comfortable and standing for the principles we ask others to uphold, I would rather choose integrity.