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Trauma Informed Care
How equipped are you to truly support clients who have experienced trauma? The Trauma Informed Care course, led by Amy Staley, LCSW, is designed to transform the way you approach therapy by integrating trauma-informed principles into your practice. This course will help you understand the profound impact trauma has on individuals and provide you with the tools to create a safe, supportive environment that fosters healing. You’ll learn to recognize the signs and symptoms of trauma, implement strategies to avoid re-traumatization, and shift your perspective to see beyond behaviors and symptoms to the root causes of distress.
By enrolling in this course, you’ll gain practical knowledge of SAMHSA’s six key principles of trauma-informed care, empowering you to make meaningful changes in how you interact with clients. Whether you work in a clinical setting, a school, or any other professional environment, this course will help you create a space where clients feel seen, heard, and supported. Elevate your practice by adopting a trauma-informed approach that not only improves client outcomes but also enhances your professional effectiveness and satisfaction.
Practical Skills
Practical Interventions You'll Learn
In this free trauma and the body course, you'll learn how to:
- Recognize how trauma lives in the body, not just in the story, and how the body's response shapes a client's physical and mental health long after the event
- Identify the threat response cycle (fight, flight, freeze, and collapse) as autonomic survival responses rooted in the body, not psychological choices
- Distinguish between explicit and implicit memory, and understand how implicit traumatic memories continue to drive symptoms outside conscious awareness
- Recognize signs of a nervous system stuck in hypervigilance or shutdown when trauma has not been resolved
- Understand the role of the HPA axis in trauma's long-term physical effects, including chronic inflammation, insulin resistance, and memory disruption
- Apply co-regulation and supportive environment principles to help clients recalibrate their body's stress response set points
- Recognize when a client's symptoms are body-based responses to unresolved trauma rather than separate medical or psychological issues
- Build a foundational body-based 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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Trauma as a body response
Understand trauma as the body's response to overwhelming experience, not just the event itself.
The threat response cycle
Identify fight, flight, freeze, and collapse as autonomic survival mechanisms rooted in the body.
Explicit and implicit memory
Distinguish between conscious and unconscious traumatic memories and how each drives symptoms.
The HPA axis and chronic stress
See how prolonged trauma activation leads to inflammation, insulin resistance, and memory issues.
Autonomic nervous system patterns
Recognize when a client's nervous system is stuck in hypervigilance or shutdown.
Co-regulation and recovery
Apply supportive environment principles to help clients recalibrate their stress response over time.
Lifetime on-demand access
Go at your own pace and return to the material whenever you need a body-based 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
Amy Staley
MSW, LCSW
Amy is a LCSW, who received her Masters in Social Work from Boston University. Amy has just under 19 years of experience in the social work field, primarily working with those impacted by trauma as well as the larger mental health system. Amy has provided direct practice, management, and directorship in a variety of clinical settings, including community mental health, behavioral health hospital, and schools. Amy utilizes a trauma informed approach not only in clinical care, but with a macro lens of the larger systems impacting the community.
Amy brings a spicy energy with innovative ideas and approaches by thinking outside of traditional mental health structures, flows and processes. Amy has training experience through her professional roles as well as an adjunct faculty at the University of Denver, Graduate School of Social Work for just under 7 years.Amy is a LCSW, who received her Masters in Social Work from Boston University. Amy has just under 19 years of experience in the social work field, primarily working with those impacted by trauma as well as the larger mental health system. Amy has provided direct practice, management, and directorship in a variety of clinical settings, including community mental health, behavioral health hospital, and schools.
Amy utilizes a trauma informed approach not only in clinical care, but with a macro lens of the larger systems impacting the community. Amy brings a spicy energy with innovative ideas and approaches by thinking outside of traditional mental health structures, flows and processes. Amy has training experience through her professional roles as well as an adjunct faculty at the University of Denver, Graduate School of Social Work for just under 7 years.
Take The Next Step
Ready to Begin?
Trauma Lives in the Body
Long after the event has passed, the nervous system continues to respond as if the threat is still here. This free course gives you the threat response cycle, the implicit memory framework, and the HPA axis foundations to recognize and address the body-based dimensions of trauma in your clinical work.
Free. Lifetime access. ASWB and NBCC CEs.