MEET TAYLOR

MA, EdS, APCC

Speaker, Author, Strategic Consultant, & Performance Coach

My passion is helping groups and individuals realize and reach their potential in their professional and personal lives.

Taylor Oren, MA, EdS, APCC, is passionate about helping groups and individuals envision and attain their highest professional and personal goals. In her work as a trauma therapist, Taylor has seen the crippling impacts trauma can have on our mental and physical health, self-worth, ambition, confidence, relationships, and wellbeing. She works with diverse groups and individuals to identify and overcome roadblocks to success.

Taylor’s mission is to equip teams and individuals with trauma-infomed, research-based skills and strategies to thrive in their professional and personal lives. Taylor believes leadership skills, self-care practices, resilience tools, and approaches to healthy communication are teachable and open doorways to greater connection, trust, purpose, performance results, and wellbeing within organizations.

In 2022, Taylor co-authored the book Burnout and Trauma Related Employment Stress: Acceptance and Commitment Strategies in the Helping Professions. Taylor presents at local, state, and national conferences on professional burnout and focuses both on individual and systems-level prevention and intervention.

Taylor is currently a therapist at Pacific Counseling and Trauma Center in Folsom, CA which specializes in trauma treatment through brainspotting therapy.

In addition to working with trauma survivors, Taylor provides mental resilience and performance coaching to elite athletes. She has provided individual coaching to athletes at the college, professional, and Olympic levels.

Recent Publications

Burnout and Trauma Related Employment Stress: Acceptance and Commitment Strategies in the Helping Professions © 2022

Burnout and trauma related employment stress (TRES), which includes compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress, and vicarious trauma, are increasing in prevalence as attrition rates, mental health disturbances, and suicide rates are climbing for those in the helping professions. This book highlights the imperative for prevention and early intervention using acceptance and commitment strategies. It includes cognitive, acceptance, and mindfulness techniques to assist the individual in achieving goals through values-based living. 

Among the topics discussed: 

  • Definitions of Burnout and TRES

  • Prevalence rates of burnout and TRES in the helping professions

  • Mindfulness and acceptance practices

  • Defusion and cognitive techniques

  • Values based goal setting

  • Organizational responsibilities and strategies

  • Assessment resources 

On Taylor’s Bookshelf