Emotional First Aid Coach: Shelly Pinomaki
Seeking Hope is helping people on what is possibly the worst day of their lives. We’re here to help you survive, rebuild, and reclaim hope.
The Current State of Crisis
Crisis is more than an event, it’s anything that sets you off balance. There can be a crisis in your life at any given time. The statistics are real.
Experience Trauma
60% of people experience trauma in their lifetime.
Abuse Substances Post-Trauma
76% turn to drugs/alcohol following a traumatic experience.
Experience Emotional Crisis
Every person will have at least one emotional crisis in their life.
About Shelly Pinomaki, San Diego's Most Remarkable Women Award Winner 2020
Shelly Pinomaki lost her sister at the hands of a murderer during Christmas 2011, and witnessed the additional trauma inflicted upon her family from well-meaning friends, families – even professionals – because they had no idea what to say or do. Shelly became impassioned to help others who wanted to help those in emotional pain, and received trauma training, became a chaplain, then founded Seeking Hope. Shelly also serves as a chaplain with the San Diego Sheriff’s Department.





















Emotional First Aid Coaching & Training
With our emotional first aid support, everyone who needs help preparing or recovering from a crisis can get the tools and strategies to keep you emotionally healthy. Combining biblical & psychological truths, we empower you to find great hope again!
Benefits of Emotional First Aid Coaching

Inspire Change
Emotional first aid training and resources will help transform how you cope with a crisis and heal after trauma.

Reduce Stress
Everyone can experience hope and peace in their life. You’ll learn how to manage and reduce emotional stress in your life.

Learn Truth
We’ll partner together to bring the Armor of God through biblical truth to moments of emotional crisis.

Inspire Change
Seeking Hope provides training and resources to help transform you into an effective and safe emotional crisis responder.

Reduce Stress
Everyone can experience hope and peace in their life. You’ll learn how to reduce stress in your life and in those around you.

Learn Truth
Let’s partner together to bring the Armor of God through biblical truth to battlefields across America.
Your Journey With Emotional First Aid
01
EMOTIONAL FIRST AID
CARES training modules are the perfect starting place. When you complete the training you’ll feel empowered to offer hope in crisis in a number of situations.
02
JOIN THE COMMUNITY
After you finish your online training, join the exclusive Facebook group where you can connect directly with Shelly and others going through the CARES training.
03
FIND HOPE
Once you have received your certification of completion, you’re ready to help those in emotional crisis. But don’t stop there, continue with our intermediate and advanced modules, coming soon!
How Our Training Works

Helping You Help Others
The Seeking Hope training equips you to bring hope and encouragement to those in crisis. Not sure you know people in crisis? You do! Everyone experiences crisis more than we realize, and that’s why training matters. You will receive the tools and resources necessary to live a life of helping people in crisis.

Make New Connections
Our Seeking Hope training doesn’t stop with online modules. You can go deeper by engaging in our Seeking Hope Facebook community, and connect with like-minded healers and helpers.
What is CARES?
You’ll get access to our CARES Online Training modules that train you on emotional crisis response. Here is some of what you’ll receive in each module:

You’ll learn how to build connection, the definition of a crisis, and the fundamentals of providing emotional first aid.

In this module, we will explain how to define the relationship in crisis, appropriate responses, and steps to take when assessing a situation.

Find out how you can reassure someone and bring words of life and hope. We will cover the questions you should and should not ask someone in crisis.

Crisis isn’t resolved instantly, you’ll learn how to endure the process, make important decisions, and find resources to move forward.

We believe that true hope is found in God. We will teach you to hear his voice, how to offer spiritual comfort, and review a powerful biblical story of crisis response.
Get Started With The First Lesson For Free!
Learn What It Means To Thrive in the Midst of a Broken World
Get Started With CARES Online Training Today!
You’ll get access to more than 5 hours of training, helpful tools, notes, and a chance to earn your CARES certificate of completion!
CARES TRAINING COURSE - LEVEL 1
$79.97
What’s Included:
– Seeking Hope CARES Training Workbook
– Exclusive Access to Hope Tribe
– Full lifetime access
– Remote Access From Any Device
– Basic crisis intervention and emotional first aid procedures