Center for Healing Trauma
Who are we?
Center for Healing Trauma is a creative place for children & families, and communities impacted by trauma to discover how play, imagination, and embodiment to support healing, resilience, and transformation.
We are a hub for therapists, healers, educators, and mental health practitioners to deepen, expand, and embody trauma-centered care through psychotherapy, drama therapy, creative arts healing, training, research, writing, and community.
Rooted in a vision of playfulness, healing, learning, and connection, the Center is growing toward a future clinical, educational, and research home for trauma-centered care in the Bay Area.
Trauma Centered Courses
Our trainings are based on the principles and philosophy of trauma centered psychotherapy, integrating - drama therapy, somatic psychology and the creative arts.
April 2027
How to Talk with Clients About Trauma
Foundational inquiry skills, somatic techniques, and co-regulation practices for therapists learning how to engage conversations about trauma with confidence, compassion, and clinical skill.
Participants will learn how to ask about trauma in ways that foster safety, connection, and understanding—without overwhelming clients through flooding, while also not engaging in therapeutic neglect and avoidance that can place the burden of disclosure entirely on the client.
4 Main Inquiry Techniques
+ Nervous System Co-Regulation Skills,
+ Embodied Role Play & Feedback.
May 2027
How to Talk with Clients About Trauma
Advanced inquiry skills, somatic techniques, and co-regulation practices for therapists learning how to seeking to deepen their capacity to assess, explore, and respond to trauma in clinical practice.
Building on Level 1, participants will learn more nuanced, validating, and responsive conversational techniques and non verbal co-regulation techniques. Hands-on practice, enables therapists to embody a trauma centered stance with confidence while receiving somatic feedback.
12 Supplemental Inquiry Techniques, + Advanced Activation & Regulation Skills,
+ Embodied Role Play & Feedback.
Drama Therapy Courses
Our trainings are based on the principles and philosophy of trauma centered psychotherapy, integrating - drama therapy, somatic psychology and the creative arts.
June 2027
June 2027
Drama Therapy Toolbox to work with Traumatized Children
Participants will learn 7 easily implementable Drama Therapy Techniques for working with children who have experienced - sexual abuse, physical abuse, neglect, gun violence, war, poverty, and or complex trauma.
Drama Therapy Toolbox to support Couples dealing with Trauma.
Participants will learn 5 easily implementable Drama Therapy Techniques for working with couples who have experienced trauma.
Techniques are playful, embodied and based on neurobiological attunement.
Community Events
The Center for Healing Trauma is more than a place to attend trainings. We are a shared learning community where clinicians, educators, researchers, artists, and helping professionals come together to learn, practice, experiment, reflect, and grow.
Beyond continuing education, we envision the Center as a place for ongoing connection through collaborative learning, experiential practice, consultation, creative inquiry, therapist wellness, and community.
Caseload Integration with Art & Play
Jan 16th 2027
6-8pm
Drama Therapy
Practice Lab
Feb 26th 2027
6-8pm
Movie Night with Clinical Discussion
Mar 14th 2027
6-8pm
"Trauma is not just what happend to us, but what happens inside us in the absence of an empathic witness"
Gabor Mate
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