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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

Center for Trauma & Embodiment is a global leader in body-first care for complex trauma and PTSD

Support Trauma Survivors

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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Upcoming Trainings

Trauma Informed Weight Lifting Certificate Program

January 29 - March 26 • Online
$1750-$2000

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Foundations in TCTSY Trauma Sensitive Yoga

Multiple Dates • Online
Multiple Timezones
$300-500

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Introduction to ReScripted

Online Workshop
Fully Asynchronous
$40

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Free PDF Download

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.

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

ReScripted is an improv-based, therapeutic trauma intervention that utilizes the power of play & movement with children and teens to promote the development of a whole, healthy self.

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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.

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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.

Our body-based care models have been found in studies to be as effective as, or more effective than, traditional talk therapy.

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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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Center for Trauma & Embodiment along with Justice Resource Institute are silver-level Guidestar participants based on their commitment to transparency.

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