The International Association of Trauma Recovery Coaching
Instructor: Deena Nielsen CHC, CLC, CTRC-S
Contact: support@deenachristinecoaching.com
Certified Trauma Specialist
Sneak Peek
Certified Trauma Specialists recognize that the human mind and body are designed to respond to trauma. In doing so, it will employ a variety of strategies, all in service of surviving that trauma. Any strategies that an individual’s mind and body employ, consciously or unconsciously, are adaptive.
The Certified Trauma Specialist course gives an individual an in-depth knowledge of trauma, the various forms that it takes, how it might impact an individual as well as ways that this information can be integrated into a career or business in order to provide trauma informed services. You may offer trauma informed interactions, psychoeducation and formulate policies and procedures that are trauma informed in your and other’s businesses.
For example, if one is a teacher, they can use their certification as a Trauma Specialist to make their classroom experience more trauma informed as well as understand the behaviors and responses of their students through a trauma informed lens.
If one is a business owner, they can use their certification as a Trauma Specialist to develop policies and procedures that make it safer and easier for trauma survivors to access their services, as well as understanding why some of their customers may have the needs and responses, they do in interacting with your business.
Certification Limitations
Certification as a Trauma Specialist does not give you skills to serve as an interventional helping professional in any manner. You may not use it to coach, treat or help heal a trauma survivor in any capacity. This would be a breach of the Certified Trauma Specialist Code of Ethics and could jeopardize your certification credential.
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