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RISEUP PHOENIX TRAUMA AND CRISIS INSTITUTE

Real-World Solutions for People, Leaders, and Organizations Under Pressure

RISEUP Phoenix depicted as one connected coastal home with eight illuminated program rooms, a compass pathway, distant lighthouse and Dr. Krista Fee in the central upper window.

RISEUP Phoenix is a multidisciplinary institute for individuals, couples, families, leaders, professionals, and organizations navigating growth, relationships, recovery, safety, resilience, leadership, and life under pressure.

Through education, community, coaching, consulting, mentorship, and professional training, we help people understand what’s happening, identify what matters, and build practical ways forward.

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Trauma-informed. Science-backed. Grounded in real-world experience.

Life Doesn’t Happen in Separate Departments

A challenge at work can follow someone home. Trauma can shape leadership, communication, relationships, identity, health, and safety. Recovery may involve more than changing a behavior. A concern about a child may also involve emotional regulation, family communication, professional readiness and stronger community systems.

Yet support is often divided into narrow categories. People are asked to choose one problem, one role, or one part of themselves before they can receive help.

RISEUP Phoenix was created to work differently.

We bring practical education, trauma-informed support, professional development and real-world experience into one connected Institute, while preserving distinct spaces for different people, cultures and needs.

The rooms within RISEUP Phoenix are intentionally different, but they are not isolated from one another. A leader is still a person. A responder may also be a partner, parent, or survivor. A family navigating recovery may need support with relationships, identity, and safety. An organization’s policies ultimately affect human beings whose lives do not end when the workday does.

You do not need to force your life into a preset package or know exactly what kind of support you need before you begin. You need a clear place to start, practical ways forward, and room to grow as your needs become clearer.

Connected spaces for work, family, learning, safety and recovery surrounding a central compass, illustrating how different areas of life influence one another.

One Institute. Eight Rooms. Many Ways Forward.

Each RISEUP Phoenix room serves a distinct community or area of life. Every room has its own purpose, language, and resources, while remaining connected to the larger Institute.

You may enter through leadership and later need support with a relationship. You may begin with recovery and discover that grief, identity or family connection also need attention. A parent or educator may come through KidSAFE while using BrightHeart resources to support a young child. A responder may need a culturally informed space of their own while their partner or family requires a different kind of support.

Start where the need feels clearest today. You are choosing a place to begin, not deciding where you must remain.

RISEUP PRO

Real-world professional development, community and eligible IACET continuing education for people who lead, serve and carry responsibility under pressure.

This room may fit if you’re:

  • Leading people or making difficult decisions
  • Strengthening communication, regulation or crisis readiness
  • Looking for IACET CEC opportunities, skills badges or practical professional development
Enter RISEUP PRO

RISEUP Responders

Culturally informed community and practical support for active, retired and former responders, military members and other frontline professionals.

This room may fit if you’re:

  • Carrying work, grief, or cumulative stress home
  • Navigating identity, relationships or life beyond the uniform
  • Looking for support from people who understand the culture
Enter RISEUP Responders

KidSAFE

Practical prevention, resilience and safety education for the adults raising, teaching, supporting and protecting older children and teens.

This room may fit if you’re:

  • A parent, caregiver, educator or youth-serving professional
  • Strengthening child-safety awareness, prevention or emergency readiness
  • Looking for professional KidSAFE training or eligible continuing education
Enter KidSAFE

BrightHeart Learning Community

An adult-guided space helping young children build emotional language, regulation, resilience, connection and practical safety skills.

This room may fit if you’re:

  • Supporting a young child
  • Looking for playful, developmentally appropriate emotional-learning tools
  • Helping a child understand big feelings, relationships, confidence and safety
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Relationship Reset

Practical support for individuals and couples who want to understand their patterns and build healthier relationships.

This room may fit if you’re:

  • Repeating the same conflict without reaching resolution
  • Trying to rebuild trust, safety or connection
  • Ready to communicate differently and understand what happens beneath the reaction
Enter Relationship Reset

Phoenix Woman

A space for women ready to reclaim their voice, rebuild their identity and move forward on their own terms.

This room may fit if you’re:

  • Healing from abuse, exploitation, betrayal or a painful past
  • Reconnecting with the parts of yourself that survival pushed aside
  • Ready to write, speak, create or begin building what comes next
Enter Phoenix Woman

Foundations

A grounded place to understand yourself, explore what matters, and build a life that feels more intentional from the inside out.

This room may fit if you’re:

  • Looking for greater self-awareness, direction or personal growth
  • Feeling stuck, disconnected or ready to understand yourself differently
  • Interested in practical wisdom drawn from psychology, history and diverse global traditions
Enter Foundations

Mission Possible Recovery

Nonclinical education and community support for people building recovery, supporting someone they love, or rebuilding after grief and significant change.

This room may fit if you’re:

  • Building or maintaining recovery and looking for continued support
  • Navigating grief, loss, identity changes or life after addiction
  • Looking for practical structure and community for yourself or as someone supporting a loved one
Enter Mission Possible

Still Not Sure Where to Begin?

You don’t need to identify the perfect room before reaching out. Tell us a little about what brings you to RISEUP Phoenix, and we’ll help you identify the most appropriate place to begin.

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  • 10,000+ People Served

  • 100+ Professional Certifications and Specialized Trainings

  • 400+ Hours of Free One-to-One Support Annually

  • 3x International Bestselling Author and Award-Winning Speaker-Trainer

Professional Solutions Built for Real Pressure

Strong organizations and effective leaders are built through more than information. They need practical tools, human-centered systems and support that holds up when the pressure is real.

RISEUP Phoenix serves organizations and individual professionals through two connected pathways.

For Organizations

Build safer, stronger and more resilient teams and systems.

Our organizational services help schools, early-childhood programs, public-safety agencies, military communities, healthcare organizations, government agencies, nonprofits and businesses address the human challenges that affect safety, performance, retention and trust.

  • Trauma-informed leadership and organizational practice
  • Burnout prevention, resilience, retention and team connection
  • Crisis, disaster and active-threat readiness
  • KidSAFE Professional child-safety, resilience, regulation and preparedness
  • Customized training, IACET CEC programs, skills badges and program development
  • Keynotes, workshops, consulting and facilitated learning
  • RISEUP PRO Team Membership and continued organizational support

RISEUP Phoenix provides IACET-accredited continuing education in partnership with Grow By 1. Eligible programs are clearly identified. Custom trainings developed specifically for your organization’s needs are available.

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For Leaders and Professionals

Grow your capacity to lead people without losing yourself or damaging the people who depend on you.

The RISEUP PRO community brings practical leadership development, expert guidance, professional connection, masterclasses, courses, implementation tools and continuing-education opportunities into one evolving professional environment.

Whether you lead a team, serve a community, educate others, manage crisis or carry responsibility that rarely switches off, you do not have to figure it all out alone.

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Real Leadership for What Matters Most

Leadership can be meaningful, demanding, isolating and deeply human. RISEUP PRO gives leaders and professionals a place to keep learning, ask real questions, strengthen their practice and access tools designed for the situations leadership books rarely prepare them to face.

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Inside the Community

  • One live session each week, alternating between Leader Labs and The Compass Room.
  • Leader Labs: focused teaching and practical application across leadership, safety and life mastery.
  • The Compass Room: professional discussion, questions and guidance for applying what you learn.
  • A professional peer community
  • Mini masterclasses and focused learning events
  • Leadership tools, templates and a growing resource library
  • RISEUP PRO podcast and blog content
  • Eligible continuing-education opportunities
  • Practical support for applying learning within real teams and organizations

Both session formats may be recorded. Private advising is available through separate private sessions.

Membership

Annual: $970 per year

Monthly: $97 per month

Annual membership saves $194 compared with monthly enrollment and includes lifetime access to Trauma-Informed Leadership: How to Lead People Without Breaking Them.

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You do not need another collection of leadership ideas that sound impressive and disappear under pressure. You need useful tools, honest conversation and a professional environment that helps you turn insight into practice.

More Than Coaching

Coaching, Consulting, Mentorship and Practical Support

Real life rarely presents one neat problem that can be solved through one rigid method.

RISEUP Phoenix combines coaching, consulting and mentorship according to your needs, goals and circumstances. At times, you may need thoughtful questions that help you uncover your own direction. At others, you may need direct guidance, practical strategy, specialized insight, honest feedback or the perspective of someone willing to walk beside you while you put change into practice.

You do not have to know which approach you need before you begin. Our work can move between them intentionally as your situation develops.

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Personal Growth and Life Mastery

Gain clarity, understand the patterns shaping your choices, strengthen your relationship with yourself and build a life that reflects your values, needs and definition of success.

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Relationships

Address communication, conflict, connection, boundaries, safety and the practical work of building a healthier relationship together.

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Leadership and Professional Growth

Strengthen leadership, decision-making, communication, performance and your ability to carry responsibility without losing the human being carrying it.

Explore Professional Support

Review individual sessions and packages before making a decision, purchase directly when you know what fits or schedule a complimentary Compass Call for help choosing the right starting point.

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Experience That Moves Between the Classroom and the Real World

Meet Dr. Krista Fee

Dr. Krista Fee is the Founder and Director of RISEUP Phoenix Trauma and Crisis Institute. She is a trauma and crisis practitioner, strategic transformation specialist, resilience architect, bestselling author, speaker, trainer, consultant, coach and mentor.

Her work brings together advanced education in military and trauma psychology, criminal justice, forensics, psychology, national security, crisis response, leadership, relationships and human behavior with extensive real-world experience serving individuals, couples, families, responders, organizations and communities.

Krista created RISEUP Phoenix to close the gap between information that sounds good in theory and support that remains useful when life becomes complicated. Her approach is trauma-informed, culturally competent, practical, direct and deeply human. She does not assume that one method, identity, worldview or definition of success fits everyone.

RISEUP Phoenix is built to help people understand where they are, identify what matters and develop tools that can be used in real conversations, real relationships, real workplaces and real moments of pressure.

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Your Next Step Does Not Have to Look Like Anyone Else’s

You may be here for yourself, your relationship, your family, your team, your organization or someone you are responsible for protecting and supporting.

Wherever you are beginning, RISEUP Phoenix offers practical ways to understand what is happening, identify what matters and move forward with greater clarity, confidence and support.

If you have found the room, program or service that fits, you can begin there. If you are still uncertain, tell us a little about what brings you here and we will help you identify the most appropriate place to start.

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