If you're a therapist, coach, medical professional, or anyone who regularly holds space for other people, this gap probably feels familiar: you know what trauma looks like…you've done the reading, sat through the CE hours, learned the vocabulary. And then a client sits across from you, activated, and you genuinely don't know what to do next.

That's not a them problem. That's a training problem.

Most professional trauma education gives you just enough to recognize what you're looking at. It doesn't give you what to actually do once you're in the room with it. How to work with a nervous system that's flooded, how to sit with someone's parts without getting swallowed by your own, how to stay resourced enough to do this work for years instead of burning out in eighteen months.

I built my courses to close that gap. A quick word on where I'm coming from: I'm a Registered Clinical Counsellor, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, Certified EMDR Therapist, and Certified Professional Co-active Coach based on an island in British Columbia, though my clients are scattered across the globe. With over 20 years of experience as a trauma therapist and having lived in four countries on two continents myself, I have a particular soft spot for the expats, executives, aid workers, and globally mobile humans who are brilliant at everything except sitting still. My approach is deeply relational, clinically precise, and just a little bit magical. I get in, get to the root, and get to work. My training is how I teach you to do the same.

What I've Noticed With Coaches

I've noticed a lot of coaches quietly assume trauma work isn't really their lane — that's for therapists. Referring out for diagnosis and treatment is the right instinct. But in practice, trauma doesn't wait for the right credential to show up in the room. It shows up in leadership coaching, in executive work, in sessions that have nothing to do with trauma on paper — a client freezes mid-sentence, a pattern won't move, no matter how good the goal-setting is, a nervous system takes over, and the coaching framework in front of you has no idea what just happened. Not because coaches did anything wrong. Just because that's what happens when you work closely with humans long enough. This training isn't about turning coaches into trauma therapists. It's about recognizing what's actually happening in front of you and knowing how to meet it safely, within your own scope.

Training That Follows a Path

I didn't want to build a pile of disconnected workshops. I wanted a path — something that takes you from "I can recognize trauma" to "I can actually work with it, safely, in myself and in my clients." So the curriculum runs in two tracks, and they build on each other.

Trauma Healing (101 & 201) This is the foundational track for anyone who works with humans and wants to become genuinely trauma-informed rather than just trauma-aware. Trauma Healing 101 is a 2-hour introduction to how trauma shows up in the body and in the room. Trauma Healing 201 is where the real work happens: an 8-week deep dive, building on 101 with hands-on practice and group discussion. Both are grounded in EMDR and somatic approaches — empirically validated techniques for trauma — so what you're learning isn't intuition or improvisation. It's a framework for working with dysregulation ethically, safely, and within the actual boundaries of the client relationship. Together, 101 and 201 give practitioners a body-centered trauma framework comparable to approaches like Somatic Experiencing — the kind of grounding that's a prerequisite for doing more advanced parts work safely.

Healing the Parts (I & II) Once you can work with trauma in the body, this track teaches you to work with trauma in the psyche. Healing the Parts I is a 2-hour introduction to parts work — understanding the inner critics, saboteurs, introjects, and exiled or wounded aspects of self that show up in every client (and every practitioner). Healing the Parts II is a 6-week program that goes deeper into identifying, acknowledging, and integrating those parts. Notably, Trauma Healing 201 or an equivalent somatic training is a prerequisite for Part II — a deliberate sequencing choice. You have to know how to work with trauma in the body before it's safe to work with parts in the psyche.

I also offer a standalone specialty workshop, How's Your Sleep?, a practical 3-hour training for assessing and addressing sleep issues in your clients.

The Practical Stuff

• It counts toward your credentials. Programs are ICF-accredited and eligible for Continuing Education credit from mental health and medical boards.
• Live or on-demand. Weekly cohorts run live on Zoom, including sessions timed for Asia-Pacific schedules. On-demand versions let you go at your own pace.
• No fluff. This isn't an inspirational keynote wearing a CE-credit costume. It's direct, clinically grounded teaching for professionals who already know their field and want real tools.
• Accessible entry points. Courses run $99 for a single introductory workshop up to $895–900 for full 8-week bundles, with bundle pricing built in to save you money as you go deeper.

Who This Is For

If you're a therapist, coach, medical professional, teacher, or leader who regularly holds space for other people — and you've felt the limits of training that stops at "trauma-informed language" — this training is designed for you. Whether you're brand new to trauma work or a seasoned practitioner looking to deepen your skill set, the goal is the same: to help you do transformative work with your clients while staying resourced enough to keep doing it for years.

Ready to find your starting point? Explore the upcoming live cohorts and on-demand offerings.