How to Become a Trauma-Informed Practitioner
Jul 09, 2026How to Become a Trauma-Informed Practitioner
Why a weekend course doesn't make you trauma-informed, and what actually does.
"Trauma-informed" is everywhere right now. It's on job listings, clinic websites, corporate wellness pages. Say it enough times and it stops meaning anything.
In this class, Ryan Hassan and Matt Kay, co-creators of Embodied Processing, break down what trauma-informed practice actually requires: understanding the nervous system, working with the body instead of just the story, and living it as an ongoing practice rather than a one-day training you can tick off.
Between them they've spent the last decade teaching this at The Centre for Healing, and over 130,000 people have been through their free trauma-informed course. This class is where you start.
What you'll learn
- The difference between trauma-informed as a marketing label and trauma-informed as a lived practice
- Why talking about trauma repeatedly can retraumatise, and what working with it looks like instead
- How traumatic imprints get stored in the nervous system and show up as anxiety, addiction, and dysfunctional relationships decades later
- The three levels of trauma-informed work, from basic awareness through to practitioner-level skill
- Three practical tenets for working with trauma: finding a resource, inviting in the parts you've disowned, and safely turning toward sensation
- Why being trauma-informed doesn't mean tolerating bad behaviour or losing your boundaries
Who this is for
Practitioners, coaches, and helping professionals who want more than a certificate, people working in mental health, social work, or education who suspect their training missed the point, and anyone on their own healing journey who wants to understand why insight alone hasn't been enough.
Chapter timestamps
00:00 — Introductions: Ryan and Matt's own recovery stories
04:07 — What today's class covers
04:30 — The problem: trauma-informed has become a buzzword
09:23 — What trauma-informed isn't
16:32 — What trauma-informed actually is
18:35 — Compassion and boundaries aren't opposites
23:55 — The components of trauma: nervous system, orphaned parts, painful narratives
34:27 — Talking about trauma vs. working with it
36:01 — The three levels of trauma-informed work
37:43 — Three tenets: all parts welcome, you're not broken
43:29 — Tenet one: finding a resource
51:27 — Tenet two: inviting in the orphan part
55:53 — Tenet three: safely turning toward sensation, and the window of tolerance
58:47 — The Embodied Processing flowchart, and where to go next
59:49 — Live Q&A
Ready to go deeper?
Want to go deeper? The Centre for Healing's free Trauma-Informed Certificate Course is where most people start. If you're ready to train as a practitioner, Embodied Processing is our certification program, built on everything covered in this class.
Free Trauma-Informed Certificate Course
Embodied Processing Practitioner Training
Much Love,
The Centre for Healing Team.