Building foundations for a healthier you

Moving from awareness to action

This session focuses on proactive, empowering frameworks that help spouses navigate stress, strengthen relationships, and stay connected - both to themselves and to those they care about. Through education, skill-building, and meaningful connection, participants will gain tools they can use immediately and return to over time as life’s stressors inevitably arise.

Led by Kathryn Dosch, LPC, Regional Clinical Director with The Headstrong Project, this interactive session blends clinically informed insight with real-world strategies and community connection to support long-term well-being and strong, resilient relationships.

What you’ll learn and practice:

• A brief, practical overview of PTSD and what it can look like in daily life

• Why PTSD is treatable, and how spouses can support recovery

• How to respond, support, and appropriately challenge a partner impacted by PTSD

• Moving from disconnectedness to connection: combating loneliness and isolation

• Finding joy in everyday moments

• Communication skills, validation, conflict resolution, and pathways for repair

• Leading by example: modeling the behaviors and interactions you want to experience

• Building social support through guided small-group connection

• An overview of The Headstrong Project and how to access support if you or your partner may benefit

DETAILS

• Date: Saturday, March 7th

• Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm MT

• Location: Idaho Outdoor Fieldhouse

Refreshments Provided | Child-Friendly Activities Available

MEET THE FACILITATOR

Kathryn Dosch, M.Ed, LPC, NCC is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the State of Colorado and currently serves as The Headstrong Project’s Senior Director for Network Clinical Operations. She started her career in mental health in 2004 and brings diverse experience in the field of mental health services, leadership, and operations. Ms. Dosch has held various leadership roles in her career, including leading teams of mental health clinicians, case managers, psychologists, psychiatrists, PhD and Masters degree students, and peer support specialists.

As the daughter of an Air Force Veteran, she is very familiar with the challenges military families face, both in times of war and in peace. Because of her passion for this population, she has spent her career specializing in treating PTSD in both children and adults, issues around deployment and transitions, complex trauma, anxiety, mood disorders, ADHD and other learning disorders. She joined Headstrong in 2019 as a clinician when she became the Director of the Veterans Health and Trauma Clinic at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Prior to working at UCCS, Ms. Dosch worked at Aspen Pointe as the Director of Integration and was both a manager and clinician serving military and civilian kids, teens, and families.

Ms. Dosch received both her B.S. in psychology and her M.Ed. in guidance and counseling from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Ms. Dosch has experience working with individuals, couples, and families, and is passionate about integrated care and family systems work. She is experienced in Accelerated Resolution Therapy, Behavior modification, Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicide Prevention, Cognitive Processing Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Play Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Written Exposure Therapy. In her free time, she loves hanging out with her husband and 2 sons in the mountains, hiking, reading, cooking/baking, doing puzzles, and getting together with friends.