Trauma-Sensitivity Training for Organizations
Health care · Schools · Nonprofits · Communities
Help your team respond to trauma in ways that actually help.
Practical training and talks from an active trauma clinician, for health care teams, schools, nonprofits, faith communities, and businesses.
Trauma Sensitivity Training
Pick the right depth.
Trauma shows up everywhere, but it's often misunderstood, and a community's response to a trauma reaction can make it worse. This training gives your team the missing pieces: how to recognize a trauma response and concrete ways to respond that help.
1 hour · Free
Free once a month
Trauma Sensitivity: 1-hour intro
A short introduction to what trauma responses look like and how to respond in ways that help. We offer one free 1-hour training each month, so it's an easy first step for any team or group.
- Recognize a trauma response
- Concrete ways to respond that help
- Free: one training per month
7 hours
Health care · Front desk staff
Trauma Sensitivity for front desk staff
For the people patients meet first. Learn what trauma triggers patients may experience and how to build trauma sensitivity into office policies and procedures.
- 7 hours
- For front desk staff in health care settings
- Customized to your office and patients
- Pricing set after a planning meeting with Traci
21 hours
Health care · Providers
Trauma Sensitivity for health care providers
Our most in-depth option, for providers who care for patients directly: recognizing trauma responses and responding in ways that help.
- 21 hours
- For health care providers
- Customized to your setting
- Pricing set after a planning meeting with Traci
Custom Community Trainings
Tailor-made for your community.
The framework stays the same. The examples, language, and scenarios change for who's in the room.
Versions we've built
- Moms of young children: what's typical and what's a concern in children's behavior
- Adolescents: consent and respect in relationships
- A dentist's office: patient trauma triggers and how to build sensitivity into office policies and procedures
Who we train
Schools & educationHealth care & clinicsNonprofits & social servicesFaith communitiesFirst respondersBusinesses & HRParent groupsYouth groups
Talks & Presentations
Prefer a talk?
Single-session presentations for conferences, staff days, and community events, adapted to your audience.
Clinicians & community organizations
Sexual Trauma 101
Tools to explore and resource your own feelings when someone discloses sexual trauma, plus the psychoeducation needed to create safety.
Any audience
Introduction to EMDR
A brief overview of EMDR, then a live demonstration with a volunteer, because seeing it in action says more than hearing about it.
Women leaders & caregivers
Leading Without Losing Yourself
For women entrepreneurs, mothers, caregivers, and heads of households carrying everyone else's emotional load. Includes an EMDR demo and concrete steps to reduce burnout.
Talks for Clinical Teams
For clinicians, agencies, and conferences.
Dissociation 101
How to recognize and assess for dissociation, how severity changes treatment, and how to navigate it ethically with clients.
The Fundamentals of Complex Trauma Treatment
The order of treatment that makes it effective, the stuck points clinicians typically hit, and tips to get unstuck.
Who Leads the Training
Traci W. Pirri, LCSW-S, EMDRIA-Approved Consultant.
Traci is Executive Director of Hope For The Journey Collective, a nonprofit group practice with two locations in the Austin, Texas area. She was one of the first clinicians in the country trained in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and she builds training that helps communities support recovery.
Our trainers carry an active caseload with trauma survivors, so the examples are real and so are the answers to hard questions. Your fee also funds subsidized therapy for people who can't afford care.
Training Reviews
What attendees say.
“This was one of the most helpful trainings I have ever been to! The material was covered thoroughly, we got to see the concepts in action, and there was enough time to ask lots of questions. Traci was kind and knowledgeable and very comfortable to work with. I will sign up for any future trainings she puts on. Great experience!”
Training attendee
“The topic was powerful and well delivered.”
Community talk attendee
Request a Training
Fill out the interest form. We'll set up a planning meeting.
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Train your team or community
Tell us the audience, topic, and format you have in mind. Traci will follow up to schedule a planning meeting, and your price is set after that conversation.
Talk to a person
Prefer to talk it through?
Call, email, or grab 30 minutes on Traci's calendar.
Nonprofit rates for nonprofits
We're a 501(c)(3) too. Reduced rates are available for nonprofits, schools, and community organizations. Ask.
Training Questions
Our 1-hour Trauma Sensitivity intro is free once a month. For everything else, we set the price after a planning meeting with Traci, where we talk through your audience, format, group size, and goals. Fill out the interest form to start.
No, and we're careful about that line. This is professional training, not group treatment. That said, this material can land personally for people, so we always signpost support and let people step out without explaining themselves.
Yes. Shorter sessions work well remotely. For scenario-heavy work, in person is materially better and we'll say so.
Anything from a small leadership team to a full staff day. Scenario work is best under about 30 people; framework sessions scale much larger.
Always. We ask about your setting, your team's pressures, and the situations that keep recurring, then build examples from those. Generic training gets politely ignored.