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Trauma Care
Begins With You

Center for Trauma and Embodiment is the leader in training and education for mental health and movement practitioners in innovative, body-based interventions for complex trauma and PTSD, based on decades of original research and collaboration.

Become an Embodied Trauma Care Provider

Trauma Care
Begins
With You

Center for Trauma and Embodiment is the leader in training and education for mental health and movement practitioners in innovative, body-based interventions for complex trauma and PTSD, based on decades of original research and collaboration.

Become an Embodied Trauma Care Provider

Bring the body into Healing

Conventional, top-down trauma therapies often neglect the impact of trauma on the body. An embodied, bottom-up approach makes healing possible for the whole person.

Join thousands of trauma-informed professionals around the world who successfully treat trauma by centering body awareness in the healing process.

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Bring the body into Healing

Conventional, top-down trauma therapies often neglect the impact of trauma on the body.An embodied, bottom-up approach makes healing possible for the whole person.

Join thousands of trauma-informed professionals around the world who successfully treat trauma by centering body awareness in the healing process.

Learn More About Our Trainings

Featured Trainings

Featured Trainings

TCTSY Facilitator Certification Program

September to March • Online
$2000-$3600
Multiple Languages

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Foundations in TCTSY Trauma Sensitive Yoga

Multiple Dates • Online/In Person
Multiple Timezones + Languages
$300-500

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Introduction to ReScripted

Online Workshop
Fully Asynchronous
$40

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Looking for some tips to make your practice more trauma-informed? Sign up for CFTE's monthly newsletter and receive a free copy of CFTE Co-Director Dave Emerson's 5 Tips to Make Your Practice Trauma-Informed. Dave is the founder of trauma sensitive yoga and author of Overcoming Trauma Through Yoga as well as Trauma-Sensitive Yoga in Therapy.

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Provide Embodied Trauma Care

Improve your treatment approach with innovative trauma interventions. Our evidence-based care models are applicable to both individual and group settings and have been found to be especially effective for people with the most severe psychological trauma.

Survivors are looking for new ways to heal from trauma. Center for Trauma and Embodiment is leading the way with accessible, body-based treatment modalities.

Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY)

TCTSY Trauma Sensitive Yoga is the original yoga-based treatment for complex trauma and PTSD, grounded in both trauma theory and yoga philosophy, with hundreds of certified facilitators around the world.

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Trauma Informed Weight Lifting (TIWL)

TIWL explores the power of weight lifting to heal by establishing an evidence base for weight lifting as an adjunctive treatment for trauma, and by providing education and support to the weight lifting community.

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ReScripted

 TIIP is therapeutic methodology designed to blend trauma informed practices with the healing capacity of embodied play and the whole-body nature of improvisational theatre (or improv) for the treatment of complex trauma.

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Provide Embodied Trauma Care


Improve your treatment approach with innovative trauma interventions. Our evidence-based care models are applicable to both individual and group settings and have been found to be especially effective for people with the most severe psychological trauma.

Survivors are looking for new ways to heal from trauma. Center for Trauma and Embodiment is leading the way with accessible, body-based treatment modalities.

Our programs include:
TCTSY Trauma Sensitive Yoga
Trauma Informed Weight Lifting
Trauma Informed Improv & Play
Trauma Informed Mindful Eating

Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY)

TCTSY Trauma Sensitive Yoga is the original yoga-based treatment for complex trauma and PTSD, grounded in both trauma theory and yoga philosophy, with hundreds of certified facilitators around the world.

Learn more
Trauma Informed Weight Lifting (TIWL)

TIWL explores the power of weight lifting to heal by establishing an evidence base for weight lifting as an adjunctive treatment for trauma, and by providing education and support to the weight lifting community.

Learn more
ReScripted

 TIIP is therapeutic methodology designed to blend trauma informed practices with the healing capacity of embodied play and the whole-body nature of improvisational theatre (or improv) for the treatment of complex trauma.

Learn more
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We've done our research.

Our body-based trauma interventions have been found to be as effective as, or more effective than, traditional talk therapy in over a dozen peer-reviewed studies published in major scientific journals.

We've done our research.

 

 

 

Our body-based trauma interventions have been found to be as effective as, or more effective than, traditional talk therapy in over a dozen peer-reviewed studies published in major scientific journals.

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Explore Our Research Library

Our global community of trainers, facilitators, & participants come from 
more than 40 countries, territories, and First Nations and represent all genders and ethnicities.

In 2023, more than 30,000 people around the world engaged with our care models by way of individual or group sessions, trainings, or research studies.

Center for Trauma and Embodiment's leadership established the original framework for trauma informed programming used by many other organizations today.

We work with communities around the world that have been impacted by trauma, whether through regional conflict, relational abuse, or systemic oppression.


Through your generosity, we are able to continue our trauma care initiatives for veterans, indigenous communities, gender non-conforming youth, refugees, incarcerated people, and many others of all ages and identities.


Center for Trauma and Embodiment is a 501(c)3 non-profit.

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