What is Trauma Care Coaching?

Trauma care coaching is peer-led support for survivors, built on the premise that you are not broken, and that healing happens in relationship, not in isolation.

As a Trauma Care Practitioner, my goal is to meet you where you are. I use my training, lived experience, and relational attunement to walk alongside you, not ahead of you, not above you. We work together to help you establish safety and connection, to understand the ways trauma may be showing up in your life right now, to identify your strengths, and to build toward the life you already know you want.

I am not a licensed therapist. I don't diagnose, assess mental health, prescribe treatment, or advise on medication. What I offer is something different: a knowledgeable peer who understands trauma from the inside out, and who believes you already have what you need to heal. Sometimes you just need someone to help you find it.

What is the difference between Coaching and Therapy?

This is the question I get most often, and it deserves a real answer, not a disclaimer.

Therapy is provided by licensed clinicians, psychologists, LCSWs, LPCs, who are trained to diagnose, assess, and treat mental health conditions. If you're in acute crisis, managing suicidal ideation, or need medication support, a licensed therapist or psychiatrist is the right first call. Therapy typically operates from a clinical model: the therapist holds professional authority, determines a treatment plan, and works within a framework shaped by diagnostic categories.

Trauma care coaching is different in structure, relationship, and goal. Not lesser, just different.

I don't diagnose. I don't write treatment plans. I don't hold authority over your healing. You do. We work as peers. You set the direction; I bring the knowledge, the tools, and the honest company.

In practice, that means you will never be required to narrate your trauma in detail before you're ready. We start where you are. You set the pace. What happened to you isn't a precondition of our work together. Your life right now is.

I use psychoeducation grounded in current trauma science, Polyvagal Theory, Internal Family Systems, somatic awareness, to help you understand what your nervous system is doing and why. Not to label it as disorder, but to make it make sense. Because when trauma makes sense, it loses some of its power.

Trauma care coaching tends to be a particularly good fit if:

• You've been in therapy and feel stuck. You understand your trauma intellectually but aren't moving through it in daily life.
• You want a peer relationship rather than a patient relationship.
• You want practical tools you can use between sessions, not just insight to carry.
• Clinical settings have felt retraumatizing in the past, or you're not ready for them yet.

Do you have to choose? No. Many of my clients work with a therapist at the same time. I welcome it. I'm a complement to clinical care, not a substitute, and when something is outside my scope, I refer to practitioners I trust. You don't get dropped. You get connected.

Who Do You Work With?

Trauma is pervasive, and it shows up differently for everyone. I work with adult survivors across a range of experiences, including:

• Sexual harm and assault
• C-PTSD and complex interpersonal trauma
• Narcissistic and emotional abuse
• Childhood trauma
• Spiritual abuse and high-control religious environments
• Grooming and coercive control
• Disordered eating connected to trauma history
  I also work with neurodiverse clients, including those with ADHD and autism.
  Trauma and neurodivergence intersect in ways that are often under-acknowledged, and I bring both professional training and personal experience to that work.
  I work with coaches, advocates, and helping professionals who want trauma-informed consultation, supervision, or advanced education.
  For those seeking formal training, the Global Trauma Institute certifies both Trauma Care Practitioners (1:1 survivor work) and Trauma Care Advocates (trauma-informed practice within systems and organizations).
  I work with clients one-on-one in person in Denver, Colorado, and virtually with clients worldwide.

What Additional Training Have You Done ?
Dr. Stephen Porges — Polyvagal Theory
Dr. Richard Schwartz — Internal Family Systems
Dr. Bessel van der Kolk — Trauma, Memory & the Body
Dr. Dan Siegel — Interpersonal Neurobiology, Mindsight Institute
Linda Thai — Somatic Embodiment & Attachment from a Decolonized Lens
Brain Academy — Brain Coaching
Kimberly Weeks – Narcissistic Abuse Recovery
Kory Andreas – Foundations of Neurodivergent Affirming Practice