Trauma-Informed Coaching
What is Trauma
Trauma isn’t just what happened to you—it’s how your body and nervous system responded to an overwhelming experience. When the body feels unsafe, it stores survival responses like fight, flight, or freeze. These patterns can show up years later as anxiety, stress, fear, or even phobias. That’s why you might feel “stuck,” even when you logically know the danger has passed.
Coaching helps retrain these responses in the body to recognize safety again. By combining brain rewiring with nervous system regulation, trauma-informed coaching creates new pathways for healing and resilience.
The Benefits of Working With an ACC Trauma-Informed Coach
As an ICF-ACC trauma-informed coach, I bring professional coaching credentials, trauma awareness, and somatic practices together to create a safe, structured path forward. Clients often report:
Feeling calmer and more grounded.
Improved stress management and emotional regulation.
Greater confidence, self-worth, and self-respect.
The ability to set and reach meaningful goals.
A renewed sense of possibility and freedom.
Trauma-informed coaching is not about fixing the past—it’s about reclaiming your present and shaping your future..
How Trauma-Informed Coaching Differs from Trauma Therapy
Trauma-informed coaching is a supportive, science-based approach that acknowledges how past trauma can shape the way you think, feel, and react in the present. Rather than revisiting every detail of the past, trauma-informed coaching focuses on what’s happening now—helping you set goals, practice new patterns, and move forward with confidence. With the right guidance, clients learn to rewire their brains and teach their nervous systems that the trauma is over, making space for growth, self-worth, and resilience.
It’s important to understand the difference. Trauma therapy (led by a licensed therapist) often involves processing past events in depth, addressing clinical diagnoses such as PTSD, depression, or anxiety disorders. Therapy can be essential for healing unresolved trauma and treating mental health conditions.
Trauma-informed coaching, on the other hand, does not replace therapy. Instead, it supports clients who are ready to focus on the present and take actionable steps toward change. Coaching is about identifying patterns, setting goals, and practicing daily strategies that create real shifts.
In coaching, we don’t “re-live” trauma—we practice moving beyond it.