We believe the mental health crisis has a simpler explanation…
Your team is doing everything they were trained to do, yet people are not healing. And what it’s causing - burnout, high turnover rates, interventions not sticking, staff who are ‘trained’ yet not equipped.
Our Work Starts At The Developmental Stage
When emotional development is interrupted and repair is absent, a predictable sequence begins.
Not a disorder. Not a character flaw. A developmental cascade, one that was never inevitable, and one that can still be redirected.
IED training teaches your team to see that sequence before it completes, and to become the thing that changes it.
IED is our fluent language.
Interrupted Emotional Development Training
It’s about burnout.
It’s about prevention.
It’s about healing.
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Interrupted Emotional Development
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IED is the first developmentally-grounded framework for understanding and interrupting the mental health challenges that developmental and relational trauma create.
IED theory and training introduces the only developmentally-grounded approach to trauma prevention that works upstream
A fundamental shift in how your team understands the people in front of them.
→ A new way of understanding why your team's best efforts keep falling short — and what's actually driving the behavior they're seeing
→ Clarity on why the same people keep struggling no matter what interventions you put in place
→ Practical tools your staff can use immediately — in the next session, the next classroom, the next conversation
→ The foundation for building an environment where your people and the people they serve can actually start to heal
Created For
→ Behavioral Health Organizations
→ Clinical & Medical Providers
→ Mental Health Practitioners
→ Educators and Parents
About Dr. Jodee Gibson, PCC | Dr. Gibson is a Developmental Health Researcher, educator, and the founder of Interrupted Emotional Development (IED) theory, IED is the first empirically grounded framework establishing that chronic emotional dysregulation is the predictable developmental consequence of relational trauma. She brings thirty years of applied practice across behavioral health, juvenile justice, foster care, and organizational systems, alongside formal doctoral research in human development.
Dr. Gibson is a Lecturer at The University of Michigan Flint and the author of a published theoretical preprint available on SSRN. Her work sits at the intersection of developmental science, trauma, and systems change. Preview her research here.
Behavior isn’t the problem. It's simply evidence of development.
What People Are Saying
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Your approach was the most effective I’ve experienced on this topic. Focused, actionable, and free of fluff — you delivered tools that truly move systems, not just people.
Brian Weiss , MD • Psychiatrist | Best Selling Author
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Jodee brings systems-based clarity to how people think, lead, and learn. Her practical approach creates lasting shifts in awareness and behavior.
Dr. Joseph Rios • Educational Consultant | Google
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Our student-athletes and coaches continue to reference Jodee’s methods. It’s powerful to watch how her frameworks shape not just performance, but the entire system around it.
Eric Stark • Head Volleyball Coach | University of Michigan Dearborn