For the Trauma Cases Where “Stabilize and Process” Isn't a Clear Enough Map
With a client who is dysregulated, dissociative, avoidant, plateaued, highly resourced on paper, or “better” but not meaningfully rebuilt, the next clinical move is not always obvious.
You're left sorting questions that rarely have tidy answers:
Is this client ready for processing — or are we moving too fast?
How do I move the work beyond symptom reduction into agency, identity repair, and posttraumatic growth?
When those answers are unclear, even skilled trauma treatment can start to feel like educated guesswork.
In this free 2-day Certified Clinical Trauma Professional training, Dr. Kate Truitt gives you a brain-based map for:
- Assessing readiness
- Choosing sharper targets
- Using structured dual-attention desensitization safely
- Guiding clients from stabilization through processing into reintegration
So you can make the next clinical move with more precision — not just more theory.
You'll leave with a clearer way to determine where your client is, what their nervous system is ready for, and what intervention makes sense next.
And just by showing up, you'll have completed the first step toward earning your Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) credential — completely free.
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*CE hours and certification is available for an additional cost. Register for more information.
Dear Colleague,
Trauma work asks a lot of us.
We have to track the nervous system, protect safety, assess readiness, choose the right target, hold the pace, and know when the most therapeutic move is to slow down.
That is why I built this training as a clinical map — not a collection of interesting trauma concepts.
Across these two days, we'll connect applied neuroscience to the decisions you make in the room: when to stabilize, when to process, what to target, how to keep activation contained, and how to support clients after distress reduction into resilience, agency, and posttraumatic growth.
My goal is simple: to help you do complex trauma work with more precision, more safety, and a clearer sense of what comes next.
I look forward to being with you.
Warmly,
Dr. Kate Truitt
- How your brain has adapted to protect you
- Trauma and chronic stress through the lens of neuroscience
- Introduction to stress-induced structural plasticity and trauma filters
- The roles of interoception, cognition, autonomic response, somatosensory experience, and emotional patterns in traumatic stress and recovery
- What the amygdala prioritizes to ensure survival and its link to identity and safety
- Diagnostic classification of trauma & stressor-related disorders and how classification informs treatment pace and clinical decisions
- Developmental trauma and attachment-related trauma, and how early adaptation shapes interoception, autonomic set-points, and identity
- Assessment of psychological trauma, including PTSD and Complex Trauma — what to assess, when to assess, and how assessment supports readiness decisions
- An overview of assessment tools and scales
- Commonly used instruments for trauma symptom severity
- Complex Trauma features
- Dissociation screens
- Comorbidity factors that affect treatment sequence
- Symptoms of trauma and comorbidities
- What shows up in the room across cognitive, emotional, autonomic, and somatic domains
- How comorbidities shift readiness for stabilization and trauma processing
- An explicit clinical map of safety, stabilization, processing, and reintegration
- How each phase changes the brain targets in use
- A high-level comparison of major trauma treatment approaches and how they fit into phase-based care
- A current literature and research update on what's emerging, what's stabilizing, and what still needs evidence
- Readiness assessment for trauma work, based on physiological and narrative cues
- Safety and stabilization built through interoceptive awareness and regulation
- Tools for nervous system regulation
- Cognitive distraction
- Safety scripts
- Trackers
- Acute stress and trauma encoding, including salience tags, threat learning, and why cues become danger signals
- Memory systems in trauma, including implicit versus explicit recall, state-dependent retrieval, and conditioned reactivity
- The science translated into what clinicians track
- Triggers and cues
- Autonomic shifts
- Avoidance and safety behaviors
- Dissociation risk
- Stuck loops
- Structured, trauma-informed history collection for treatment sequence
- Developmental and attachment history
- Trauma timeline
- Symptom patterns
- Comorbidities
- Resources
- Current functioning
- Purpose and outcome targets that reduce distress and reactivity tied to a specific target while safety and control are maintained
- Case study walk-throughs that cover target selection, phase sequence, and intervention choice by presentation
- Mindful touch and working-memory engagement to support safe activation and updates without forced prolonged exposure
- Solutions for diffuse activation, plateaued ratings, spikes, dissociative drift, and when to return to stabilization
- Safe session closure, including reorientation, arousal downshift, containment, and a post-session plan
- Transition criteria for when a client is ready to move from distress reduction into work that builds resilience
- An adaptive resource target identified as client-centered, repeatable, tolerable, and tied to real-world functioning such as safety, connection, agency, and values-consistent action
- Neuroplastic learning process to strengthen adaptive states across cognition, autonomic regulation, somatic experience, emotion, and behavior
- Clinical integration that uses resilience-building protocols after processing to support agency, identity repair, and sustainable growth
- Between-session structure that combines stabilization skills and resilience reps with titration to prevent overload or avoidance spirals
- Ethical considerations such as pace, scope, cultural humility, when to return to regulation tools, and when to refer or consult
- Risks and limitations review
- Final integration, an implementation map within phase-based trauma care and CCTP-aligned treatment plan
If you've ever wondered whether to stabilize, process, slow down, or move deeper, this training gives you a clearer clinical map — connecting trauma neuroscience, assessment, sequencing, dual-attention desensitization, and posttraumatic growth into one practical approach for complex cases.
Understand the trauma brain and nervous system
- Describe how trauma and chronic stress affect brain and nervous system function.
- Identify core patterns of trauma-related dysregulation across cognition, emotion, and nervous system functioning.
- Describe the role of interoception in trauma-related distress and recovery-oriented skill building.
- Describe how traumatic stress becomes encoded and maintained through threat learning and memory processes.
Assess trauma patterns, comorbidities, and developmental impacts
- Explain how developmental trauma can shape identity formation.
- Recognize common trauma symptoms and high-frequency comorbidities relevant to clinical care.
- Summarize trauma assessment basics, including the purpose of common tools and scales.
Sequence treatment and choose focused clinical targets
- Apply a phase-based framework (safety, stabilization, processing, reintegration) to treatment planning.
- Identify and refine specific treatment targets to guide focused clinical work.
Practice structured interventions for processing, stabilization, and growth
- Develop a between-session practice plan that balances stabilization skills with incremental resilience-building steps.
- Demonstrate a structured, dual-attention desensitization method with safe session closure.
- Use reintegration strategies that support resilience development and posttraumatic growth.
We know professional training costs add up fast — especially when you're trying to stay current, serve complex clients well, and meet CE or certification requirements.
So for this event, the live two-day training is free to attend.
You can register, join Dr. Kate Truitt live, take notes, ask questions, and bring the clinical tools back into your work with clients.
That's it. No hidden catch. Just free access to the live training.
If you want to go further than the free live session, here's what's available.
Don't wait! Upgrade pricing jumps to $129.99 once the event starts at 8 am U.S. Central Time on November 3rd.
Janina Fisher. Frank Anderson. Linda Curran. These are not generic names attached to a generic credential. They are powerhouse trauma educators whose work has shaped how clinicians understand dissociation, complex trauma, IFS-informed trauma treatment, stabilization, neurobiology, and practical trauma recovery.
They helped design the CCTP standards around one central question: what should clinicians know before they call themselves trauma-trained?
That means CCTP can do more than sit after your name. It gives clients and referral sources a faster signal that your practice is grounded in focused trauma training — not just a general interest in trauma-informed care.
This training is your pathway to CCTP eligibility.
Trauma care is not an add-on in your practice — it's a defined area of training and focus.
*Professional standards apply. Learn more.
In Keep Breathing, Dr. Kate Truitt brings the same lens she teaches in this training — trauma, neuroplasticity, nervous system recovery, and resilience — into the most personal terrain of her own life.
After the sudden death of her fiancé one week before their wedding, Dr. Kate Truitt was forced to navigate the very territory so many clients enter after devastating loss: shock, grief, guilt, trauma, and the slow work of rebuilding a life when safety, identity, and the future have been shattered.
Part memoir and part science-informed exploration, Keep Breathing gives you a deeper look at the human side of the recovery process Dr. Kate Truitt teaches clinically: how the brain and body respond to loss, how resilience is rebuilt over time, and what it can mean to come back to yourself after trauma.
It's included with your upgrade as a companion to the training — not just as a book about Dr. Kate Truitt's story, but as a powerful reflection on the lived experience of trauma recovery, grief, and posttraumatic growth.
No catch. The live two-day training is free to attend. You can register, join Dr. Kate Truitt live, take notes, ask questions, and bring the clinical tools back into your work with clients. If you want CE hours, CCTP certification eligibility, recording access, or Dr. Kate Truitt's book, you'll have the option to upgrade after registration — but the live training itself is free.
Yes! The training is LIVE and you'll be able to submit questions for Dr. Kate Truitt! Though she may not get to all questions, Dr. Kate Truitt will try to answer the most relevant and frequent ones.
The live event will be held Tuesday, November 3rd and Wednesday, November 4th from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM Central Time. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. All times are U.S. Central Standard Time.
| 8:00 am–11:50 am | CE Training |
| 11:50 am–1:00 pm | Lunch |
| 1:00 pm–4:00 pm | CE Training |
*Please note: There will be 15-minute mid-morning and mid-afternoon breaks at the speaker's discretion.
Yes! You get replay access for 3 days after the event. Replays will be available within the week after the event ends and will be in the same place where the live sessions took place in your account portal. You also get to keep any session slides and handouts that you download!
Please note you would need to watch the presentations as they are presented live in order to receive live hours. Self-study hours are not available for the archive recordings of the live training sessions.
Just register today with your name and email, then click the “SELF-STUDY CE” button on the next page to purchase your credit package for just $99.99 – for up to 12.5 self-study CE hours PLUS your CCTP certification fee and Dr. Kate Truitt's book Keep Breathing included as part of your purchase! After our event starts at 8 am Central time on Nov 3rd, 2026, you can upgrade for $129.99.
Just register today with your name and email, then click the “LIVE CE” button on the next page to purchase your credit package for just $99.99 – for up to 12.5 live CE hours if you attend each day in full, PLUS your CCTP certification fee and Dr. Kate Truitt's book Keep Breathing included as part of your purchase! After our event starts at 8 am Central time on Nov 3rd, 2026, you can upgrade for $129.99.
*CE hours and certification is available for an additional cost. Register for more information.
