Christine Leahy
About the Teacher
Why study with them?
Christine is an Army veteran previously tasked with special orders to train Soldiers in the Army Suicide Prevention Program. She was awarded three Army Commendation Medals, two Army Achievement Medals, the distinguished honor graduate award, and the Soldier of the Cycle award. In 2014 the Joint Special Operations Command of the US Army invited her and her husband to speak on the subject of addiction and recovery.
A nationally and internationally experienced speaker, her past speaking engagements have included story-based evangelism events on college campuses, Masters of Ceremonies for the United States Army Birthday Ball, and narrator/presenter for a multi-million dollar production of the Army’s history called Spirit of America before arena audiences exceeding 15,000 people.
Christine’s extensive education includes acute stress, grief, and trauma, the Community Resiliency Model, the HEART Model, assessment and treatment of PTSD, compassion fatigue, and compassion stress management. Christine is a member of the Green Cross Academy of Traumatology and the American Association of Christian Counselors.
While much of Christine’s professional experience is in crisis response, she is also a self-taught website designer and digital marketer. She has produced five successful virtual summits involving dozens of subject matter experts on everything from addiction and betrayal trauma to divorce recovery that have educated over 20,000 attendees from 100 countries. She enjoys teaching digital marketing strategies to faith-based non-profits who need help to multiply their mission’s message online.
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