From us, to you
(free resources!)
Wondering what we mean by "promoting safety and empowerment for all?" This handout should help! It includes: The 6 core principles of trauma-informed care (TIC); why we focus more on safety and empowerment; and thought-exercises to help apply these two principles to your clinical reasoning.
There are A LOT of people and places calling themselves trauma-informed, but that don't really seem to actually BE trauma-informed. We hope this free handout will help you distinguish between things that inherently aren't trauma-informed (i.e., red-flags) and what gets including under the trauma-informed paradigm (i.e., green-flags).
Understanding how our emotional system works -- from our body to our brain and back out to our body again -- is essential for starting to understand how trauma impacts a person's physiology and psychology. Here's a resource to help you understand that! (Also, as a bonus, it helps people understand alexithymia as well!)
We're working on more free resources, so please check back!