Practical resilience & prevention for people, teams, and organizations doing meaningful work.

First step: Schedule a free discovery call. We’ll learn what you’re navigating, clarify your goals, and confirm whether our services are the right fit. We then move to recommending the best next steps for your people and your setting.

Find out if we can meet your needs, schedule a free discovery call today.

What We Do

Resilient Pathways provides consultation, training, and facilitation to help individuals and organizations navigate change, prevent burnout, reduce harm, and build sustainable, human‑centered systems. Everything we offer is practical, equity‑centered, and built for real‑world application, not theory alone.

Trainings & Prevention Services

  • LGBTQ+ Safe Zone Trainings (inclusive practices, affirming environments, policy-to-practice tools)

  • Bystander Intervention (skills-based, scenario-driven, culturally responsive)

  • Harm Reduction (nonjudgmental strategies that reduce risk and increase safety)

  • Violence Prevention (primary prevention, de-escalation, safer culture-building)

Trainings can be customized for your audience, roles, and setting.

Consultation & Support

  • 1:1 Consultation & Coaching for professionals and leaders (burnout prevention/recovery, boundaries & ethics, workplace stress, leadership development)

  • Team & Organizational Consultation (culture and communication, staff retention, change fatigue, trauma-aware systems, program development)

  • Facilitation for retreats, planning sessions, and reflective team spaces

  • Speaking + Curriculum/Program Design for events and learning experiences

Who We Work With

  • Mission‑driven organizations & nonprofits

  • Healthcare, education, and human‑service professionals

  • Leaders and teams navigating burnout, transition, or growth

  • Individuals seeking professional consultation and support

Why Resilient Pathways

Resilient Pathways is Queer-owned and led by an MSW‑trained, holistic preventionist, Sawyer McAvoy. Sawyer has 6+ years building and managing campus‑wide harm reduction, violence prevention, and health promotion initiatives. We bring lived experience, trauma‑informed practice, and real‑world systems expertise, so your team leaves with skills you can actually use.

What qualifies us:

  • Master of Social Work, CSU Chico

  • NaBiTA Risk Rubric Certified

  • Traumatic Stress Studies Certificate, Trauma Research Foundation

  • BASICS & CASICS Certified + SMART Recovery for Professionals

  • Trauma & Resilience in Higher Education + College Student Wellbeing: Trauma & Resilience, Florida State University

  • Diversity Certificate Program, CSU Chico

  • NASPA Certified Peer Educator

  • Crisis counseling background in sexual assault/domestic violence response

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this therapy?
No. Services are consultative, educational, and professional in nature.

Do you work virtually?
Yes. Services are offered both virtually and in person.

Do you offer nonprofit rates?
Yes. Limited discounted rates are available for nonprofits and grassroots organizations.

What is your cancellation policy?
24‑hour notice is required for individual sessions. Organizational contracts include clear rescheduling terms.