Community Trauma Workshops

Healing from trauma is done best when a variety of different strategies are used that address the mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional impacts of trauma. If you are looking for resources beyond or in addition to talk therapy, we offer a collection of workshops open to the community that aim to be accessible, connecting, and enriching.

One of our missions as a trauma treatment specialty practice is to make resources for trauma survivors more accessible. We know that not everyone is in a place to begin trauma therapy, and that shouldn’t leave you with no other options in the meantime. Since trauma impacts the whole self, its treatment involves integrating the whole self; mind, body, and spirit. We look for practitioners of all sorts of modalities that work to unite a person with themselves in a variety of ways including:

  • Yoga

  • Crystal Sound Bath

  • Reiki

  • Acupuncture

  • Somatic treatments

  • Nutritional training

  • TRE (Trauma Release Exercises)

  • Pelvic Floor PT

Trauma occurs in isolation & shut down and needs to be healed in community & connection

When we are isolated from community support, validation, and resources, we become isolated and disconnected from others as well as ourselves. By participating in healing together, in whatever capacity feels safe and manageable for the trauma survivor, we can reconnect to ourselves and a level of safety in the world around us. Our community workshops are virtual through zoom and only 1-2 hours at a low cost, making them accessible and digestible. We do ask survivors to check-in with their camera on so that we can confirm identity and ensure safety, but after this we allow guests to turn off their cameras and mics and exist in the space in whatever way is comfortable for them. We value autonomy and choice and believe that this is part of what contributes to a sense of agency and control that can be so healing for trauma survivors.

Our Upcoming Workshops

Check out our listings on Eventbrite to see what workshops are coming up soon.

Our Approach

We utilize a reflective, relational approach meaning that rather than doing therapy “to” or “at” you, we are engaging in relationship with you in a way that allows patterns and themes interjecting from the past to enact themselves in the room with us in the present.

Rather than only utilizing a “top down” approach where we analyze and engage cognitively, or only utilizing a “bottom up” approach where we would only pay attention to the somatic and emotional experience, we combine these in order to engage all parts of the person in front of us. We believe that this “wholeness” is the natural human state, and this is what trauma often takes from us by fragmenting and dissociating parts of our humanity from us.

Complex trauma survivors often do not have complete memories or verbal narratives to call from, but their traumatic experiences are still stored in their bodies and find ways to speak to them. But engaging fully in the somatic and experiential is not healing without being in connection with other parts of the self, the present moment, and in relationship with a trusted other. The people who we work with have often been harmed in relationship, so it is through relationship that we work towards healing.

There is not a single step-by-step process to this type of work, because every individual has different wounds and has different needs to be met in order to heal those wounds. We firmly believe that while we may be experts in how to hold space for our clients and track the process of their healing, our clients are the experts on themselves and their experience, and it’s crucial to reinforce their agency in the process of their healing.

Our approach is one of reflection, curiosity, engagement, patience, and pacing. We work to build a safe, secure, and consistent relationship to process things within and through, and this is something that takes time in order to do well. We value inquiry for the sake of inquiry, and hold self-reflection and narrative building as inherently healing.

We believe that human wellness is linked to human connection, not just environmental stress or biology.