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Complex Trauma
How prepared are you to support clients who have experienced not just one traumatic event, but a lifetime of complex trauma? The Complex Trauma course, led by expert Crystal Wildes, delves deep into the intricate and often misunderstood world of complex trauma. This course is designed to equip you with the essential knowledge and tools to recognize the pervasive effects of prolonged trauma on the mind and body. Through this course, you’ll learn how chronic trauma reshapes the brain, disrupts emotional regulation, and complicates the therapeutic process, making it crucial for therapists to have specialized skills and approaches.
By enrolling in the Complex Trauma course, you’ll gain practical strategies for building strong therapeutic alliances, creating safe spaces, and guiding clients through the healing process. This course offers invaluable insights into how to help clients not just survive but thrive, even in the aftermath of profound and ongoing trauma. Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your practice and provide the compassionate, informed care that your clients need to reclaim their lives.
Practical Skills
Practical Interventions You'll Learn
In this free complex trauma course, you'll learn how to:
- Differentiate complex trauma from single-incident trauma, including how prolonged, repeated exposure shapes a client's sense of self, relationships, and functioning
- Recognize the neurobiological effects of chronic trauma on emotional regulation, memory, and executive functioning
- Identify how the autonomic nervous system holds prolonged trauma, including chronic hyperarousal and difficulty accessing a sense of safety
- Build a strong therapeutic alliance with clients whose early relational experiences taught them that connection is not safe
- Create a clinical environment grounded in trauma-informed care, attuned to the specific needs of clients with complex histories
- Support clients in developing resilience, processing traumatic material, and regaining a sense of control over their lives
- Recognize common complex trauma presentations like dissociation, emotional dysregulation, and relational difficulties as adaptations rather than pathology
- Build a foundational complex trauma framework you can deepen through more advanced clinical training
What You Get
What's Waiting for You Inside This Training
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Complex trauma defined
Understand how prolonged, repeated, relational trauma differs from single-incident trauma.
Neurobiology of chronic trauma
See how ongoing stress reshapes brain structures responsible for emotion, memory, and executive function.
Autonomic nervous system impact
Recognize how prolonged trauma drives heightened arousal and difficulty accessing safety.
Common clinical presentations
Identify dissociation, emotional dysregulation, and relational difficulties as adaptations rather than pathology.
Trauma-informed therapeutic alliance
Build connection with clients whose early experiences taught them that relationships are not safe.
Resilience and recovery framework
On-demand access means you go at your own pace. Lifetime access is included, so you can return whenever you need it.
Expert clinical insight
Go at your own pace and return to the material whenever you need a complex trauma refresher.
Free community membership
Join TTI's shame-free community of practitioners for ongoing conversations, support, and resources. No cost, no catch.
Meet Your Trainer
About Your Trainer
Crystal Wildes
PsyD, LP
Dr. Crystal Wildes is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 20 years experience working, training, and providing supervision/consultation in a variety of settings. She’s a Trauma Therapist Institute trainer and senior faculty member, and an expert EMDR clinician. Crystal has worked with individuals and families of all ages, including adjudicated youth, at-risk teens, families involved with social services, and victims of crime. Crystal is committed to providing compassionate and effective mental health care with a focus on healing complex trauma. Specializing in EMDR therapy, she brings a wealth of expertise to her practice, offering a unique and evidence-based approach to support individuals on their journey to recovery. In addition to her clinical work, Crystal is a dedicated educator and trainer. She shares her expertise with fellow clinicians through workshops, seminars, and training programs focused on trauma-informed care and the implementation of EMDR therapy. Crystal is committed to equipping mental health professionals with the tools and knowledge necessary to navigate the intricate landscape of trauma treatment. She prides herself in being authentic and genuine in her approach to facilitating the learning experience.
Take The Next Step
Ready to Begin?
Build the Foundation for Complex Trauma Work
Complex trauma is one of the most clinically demanding presentations in mental health, and most graduate programs do not prepare you for it. This free course gives you the neurobiology, the autonomic framework, and the trauma-informed alliance principles to start working with complex trauma clients with confidence.
Free. Lifetime access. ASWB and NBCC CEs.