This immersive and highly experiential course was designed to provide medical professionals a solid foundation for assessing, treating, and guiding trauma survivors toward healing. A holistic approach to trauma that includes addressing issues related to the body, mind, and spirit is taken to help the patient gain control over biological responses to trauma, subconscious processes that impact behavior, and spiritual challenges that affect the connection with one’s self and the world in general.

This 28-hour training is designed to improve the quality of treatment for those that have experienced trauma and deep emotional wounding by providing a working knowledge of how to engage in the process of treatment that results in true healing, rather than just management of symptoms. The course not only focuses on interventions but how to sequence the interventions to maximize outcomes.

This course has been created to be experiential for participants. Introspection and self-evaluation will be strongly encouraged. The program will provide you with an understanding of techniques and models that enable you to improve your clinical skills, but it will also provide you with the opportunity to do your own work to help you become a practitioner who is both internally and externally equipped to face the challenges of working with traumatized clients. Please consider if you are emotionally prepared to participate in a course that may sometimes be triggering if you have a traumatic background. While we will support one another as a group, it is recommended that you also have your own mental health support system.

Upon completion of the course, participants will receive 24 CEUs approved by the Florida Board of Nursing.

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  • The neurobiology of trauma
  • Biochemical, psychological, social, and spiritual factors that contribute to persistent traumatic stress
  • Adaptive and maladaptive coping behaviors
  • The biochemical, affective, and cognitive impacts of traumatic stress
  • How attachment wounds complicate healing
  • Traumatic stress over time, across and within developmental stages
  • Understanding adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
  • PTSD vs Complex PTSD
  • The role of traumatic stress in clinical disorders, such as personality disorders, dissociative identity disorder and more
  • Adverse Childhood Experience (ACEs) & developmental trauma
  • Assessment instruments
  • Cultural considerations
  • Evidence-based treatments and guidelines for managing & treating PTSD
  • Treatment interventions-demonstrations, exercises and application
  • Incorporating holistic practices into the healing process
  • The role of psychedelics in trauma recovery & other cutting-edge treatments
  • Somatic Experiencing and other methods for self-regulation
  • How to recognize a traumatized brain
  • Improved diagnoses for effective treatment strategies
  • Strategies for increasing trust with a patient
  • Helping clients tolerate dysregulation
  • Working with the limbic system
  • How to identify and treat dissociation
  • Brain rewiring strategies
  • Addressing ego states and dissociation
  • Strategies for making the first sessions successful
  • Building trust
  • Basics of psychotherapy and other therapeutic approaches in treating trauma
  • Transforming behavioral patterns that hold your patient back
  • Demonstration, exercises and application of skills to teach clients self-regulation
  • Working with shame
  • Working with trauma defense responses
  • Helping stuck patients get unstuck
  • How to help traumatized clients improve relationships
  • Healing the wounded child within
  • The role of neuroplasticity in overcoming negative belief systems
  • How to release implicit memories that my be keeping your patient stuck
  • How to overcome fear that keeps your patient locked in trauma time
  • Escaping the uncomfortable comfort zone of trauma
  • Case studies and discussions
  • Q & A
  • Experiential exercises
  • Therapy practice
  • Conceptualizing a framework of healing for survivors of traumatic stress

Course Dates

October 19 – 21, 2023 from 9am – 4:30 pm & October 22, 2203 from 9 am – 12 pm (entire course must be attended to receive CEUs)

Course Cost

One time payment of $1299 or 3 monthly payments of $467

Course Location & Lodging

The course will be held at a beautiful luxury villa just outside of Orlando. Learn during the day and relax in the pool & hot tub in the evening or have a fun night out exploring the many amazing wonders of Central Florida!

Lodging cost: $788 for 4 night stay (Oct. 18 – 22, 2023)

Best course I’ve taken since leaving my PMHNP program!

I’ve been looking for a way to better help my patients beyond meds. This course was packed with information and skills I was able to apply as soon as I got back to my office. I loved how experiential it was! Highly recommend!
Tina, PMHNP

I learned so much in such a short time.

I loved how Traci not only taught us, but also demonstrated the skills in real time. I left feeling better able to not only help my patients heal, but confident I can recognize when old wounds are the driving force behind what is happening with my patients, so I can create the proper treatment plan.
Kay, PMHNP

So much more than a course!

I came to learn & left with lifelong friends. This course helped me just as much personally as professionally. Traci created a safe space for us all to share and connect in a way I’ve never experienced in any other course. Now, I truly understand the impact of all trauma wounds big & small.
Mary, RNC

Essentials for Healing Trauma Course Presenter

Traci Powell is a psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioner, an internationally Certified Trauma Treatment Specialist, writer, trauma education consultant, and an unshakable force dedicated to helping adult survivors of trauma and abuse return to their authentic selves and step into their wholeness. She has been in nursing for almost 30 years. First as a bedside nurse, then as a neonatal nurse practitioner, but after doing much of her own personal healing work, Traci stepped into her true calling as a mental health provider. Traci has her own private practice, where she helps clients find accelerated and lasting healing through a unique, highly individualized, intensive full-day therapy process. Along with her private practice, Traci also speaks publicly about the stigma surrounding mental illness, especially as it pertains to healthcare workers. In response to growing suicide rates and worsening mental health among nurses, Traci founded Nurses Healing Nurses, an organization whose mission is to give nurses a safe space to talk about hard things. Traci’s writings have been featured on KevinMD, This is My Brave, and the Wisconsin Humanities Council, and she can be heard on the KevinMD, Stirring the Shot, and Don’t Eat Your Young podcasts. She can be found at www.TheRebuiltWoman.com.

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