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Treating Military Trauma Practitioner Program
Clinical Training for Therapists Working with Military and Veteran Clients
Most trauma therapists already know how to treat trauma. What often gets lost with military and veteran clients is the cultural context that makes those treatments actually land.
This is a non-EMDR program built to give you that context. Eight modules, taught by two clinicians who have spent their careers in this work, walking you through the culture, clinical judgment, and treatment foundation you need to work effectively with service members and veterans.
You’ll earn 8 CEs and leave with a stronger understanding of military culture, clinical judgment, and a practical treatment foundation you can apply when working with service members and veterans.
Practical Skills
Practical Interventions You'll Learn
You will learn how to:
- Identify the cultural factors that shape whether military clients seek and stay in care
- Analyze how racialized stress and systemic inequities affect mental health outcomes in marginalized military communities
- Evaluate the prevalence of TBI and its overlap with PTSD in this population
- Analyze sleep disruption in military populations and integrate sleep-focused interventions alongside trauma work
- Assess engagement strategies that reduce disclosure barriers and resonate with operational identity
- Evaluate suicide risk and resilience factors, including how to distinguish dark humor from warning signs
- Identify evidence-supported trauma treatments for military populations, including EMDR, CPT, and PE
- Define moral injury and analyze treatment strategies for moral injury, substance use, and identity collapse post-service
Who This Serves
The Pattern We Hear from Clinicians
The gap between how they present and what is happening.
These are the clients who benefit most from a clinician with cultural fluency.
Hypervigilance Read as Anxiety
Scanning every exit, sleeping four hours, startling at the door. On paper it charts as GAD and the treatment plan follows the wrong map. What you are seeing is a nervous system that was trained to stay ready and never told the threat had passed.
Drinking as the Only Way Down
The nightly drinks are not the problem they appear to be. For many service members it is the only regulation strategy anyone modeled, learned in a culture where it was normal and expected. Naming it as alcohol misuse without naming that context tends to end the conversation.
The Client Who Cannot Fully Disclose
Active-duty clients weigh every sentence against OpSec, security clearance, and command notification. Silence in the room is not resistance. It is a risk calculation you have not been briefed on, and it changes what you can ask and how you ask it.
Risk That Does Not Look Like Risk
The standard warning signs assume a client who signals distress. Military culture trains the opposite: minimize, carry on, do not become a burden to the unit. High-risk clients often present as composed, which is exactly why the usual screening misses them.
They are not asking for a different kind of therapy. They are asking to be understood.
What You Get
What's Waiting for You Inside This Training
Recognize military culture through a clinical lens
Learn to distinguish military behaviors as adaptive cultural responses rather than symptoms, strengthening assessment, rapport, and case conceptualization.
Build trust with reluctant military clients
Use structured, transparent, and action-oriented communication to establish credibility, increase engagement, and create psychological safety.
Reframe military coping strategies
Understand how compartmentalization, dark humor, and mission-focused thinking can serve as strengths while recognizing when they begin to interfere with recovery.
Adapt treatment for military-specific clinical needs
Modify pacing, interventions, and communication for clients with traumatic brain injury, operational stress, and other military-related considerations.
Restore awareness of the body's signals
Help clients rebuild interoceptive awareness after years of training to suppress physical sensations, emotions, and survival responses.
Learn on your schedule
On-demand access means you go at your own pace. Lifetime access is included, so you can return whenever you need it.
Address moral injury with compassion
Use acceptance-based and compassion-focused interventions to help clients process guilt, shame, betrayal, and self-condemnation.
Free community membership
Join TTI's shame-free community of practitioners for ongoing conversations, support, and resources. No cost, no catch.
About Your Trainers
Clinicians who are in the work.
Veteran-informed practitioners with real proximity to this population.
Gerard Ilaria
LCSW-R, EMDR-C · Founder, Bilateral Health
A longtime clinician working with combat veterans, active-duty service members, and high-stress professionals. His teaching is direct, grounded, and built on years of sitting with the clients other therapists felt unsure how to reach.
- Trained 250+ EMDR therapists across the field
- Specializes in combat trauma and moral injury
- Deep experience with high-stress, high-stakes professions
Dr. Arielle N. Jordan
PhD, LCPC, NCC · Army Veteran · Mindset Quality LLC
A Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Maryland and Virginia and an Army veteran. Through Mission REDEFINE she runs EMDR-based group programs and retreats for veterans, first responders, and purpose-driven professionals.
- Army veteran with lived proximity to military culture
- National and international EMDR consultant
- Leads group programs for veterans and first responders
Free Live Summit
Working with Military Trauma
In three focused hours with two clinicians who have built their careers in this work, you'll learn how to build trust with clients who are slow to open up, and how to read the risk that hides behind humor and stoicism. Most of us were never trained for this population, and the gap shows up in the quietest moments of a session. One afternoon that changes how you sit with every military client after it.
Free3 CEsNBCC · ACE · APAReplay for 7 days
Live Online
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
10:00 AM to 1:15 PM Central
Your Trainers
Gerard Ilaria
LCSW-R, EMDR-C
Founder of Bilateral Health and trainer of 250+ EMDR therapists. You will learn how to reach military clients who are slow to trust and gain language that helps them feel understood, so they stay in the work long enough to heal.
Dr. Arielle N. Jordan
PhD, LCPC, NCC · Army Veteran
An Army veteran, PhD counselor, and national EMDR consultant. You will gain a way to spot the risk hidden behind humor and stoicism and learn to ask about it without breaking trust, so you can act before it becomes a crisis.
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Build Confidence Treating Military Trauma
Many therapists receive little formal training in working with veterans, active-duty service members, and military families. This comprehensive training equips you with the cultural understanding, clinical frameworks, and evidence-based interventions needed to confidently assess, engage, and treat military trauma.
I'm Committed to Military-Informed Care
Many therapists receive little formal training in working with veterans, active-duty service members, and military families. This comprehensive training equips you with the cultural understanding, clinical frameworks, and evidence-based interventions needed to confidently assess, engage, and treat military trauma.