Educate to change lives

Complex Trauma is Most Effectively addressed with a 3-Phase Approach

 Primary Prevention

Reducing the impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences...starts in childhood. 
  • Parenting Skills and Support
  • ACE Scores & Early Identification
  • Age Appropriate Learning 

Secondary Intervention

Educating the professionals who support your loved ones currently carrying diverse and complex traumas. 
  • Trauma Focused Mental Health Care
  • Education for MP's and Law Makers
  • ​Tools and Best Practices for Courts

 Tertiary Support

  Enabling Post Traumatic Stress Recovery, Reintegration and Growth
  • Stabilization & Reintegration
  • ​Social Reconnection
  • Remembrance and Mourning

Why Education is Needed

Many people, including many mental health and medical professionals, have limited experience with the compounding effects of multiple traumatic experiences, also known as Complex Trauma.  In some cases this means that there are individual behaviours that are seen and treated as isolated events.  Frequently, there is a pattern that emerges that is more representative of what's happening with an individual. 

Without being familiar with Complex Trauma, it is difficult to understand if there is a more systemic pattern that can better describe what is happening. If the diagnosis is not accurate, there can be no effective treatment?

As more is learned about the impacts of Complex Trauma, there is more opportunity for those who are silently in distress, to get the support they actually need. 

Primary Prevention - School Age

The young brain is designed for learning, and this is where we both learn maladaptive behaviours and survival mechanisms.  

Children match and mirror the habits (good and bad) from their parents, teachers and caregivers.  They learn coping mechanisms and we employ these coping mechanisms later in life.  Some are productive, some are not.  



Age appropriate education which identifies and builds appropriate habitual responses to traumatic experiences is critical in the development of young minds.  

We help parents, teachers and children learn how to cultivate more productive behaviours in childhood reducing the impacts of childhood trauma and building resilience for a lifetime. 

Secondary Interventions

 Mental Health Professionals, Members of Parliament and the Judiciary


This verified research, training and tools based approach is delivered to the hands of policymakers in order to have the greatest effect on the Canadian population, and the most positive impact on the next generation of Canadian children.  

While there now is faster and easier  access to knowledge, even professionals need help finding the  most appropriate, reliable and current tools, strategies and research.  Complex Trauma Canada provides this research in easy to digest training. 
When Complex Traumatic Events become law, specific training and tools are delivered to Police, First Responders, Crown Attorneys, Justices of the Peace, Superior Court Justices, Appeal Court Justices and Supreme Court Justices who do not have the training or education necessary to deliver just outcomes at all times.  

Tertiary Support - Post Traumatic Growth

While knowledge and experience with trauma, trauma therapies and peer supports continue to expand, there remains a need to share best practice in a way that those carrying trauma, their families and friends can understand.
 Healing journeys are not linear and while many find guides, they are paths that are taken alone.  While it is your journey, we have maps for certain areas and can help you find guides and other supports.

Impact Reduction

For those who carry complex trauma and those who support family or friends who are carrying complex trauma, it is well understood that healing is a journey, sometimes a long journey.  Finding ways to reduce the impact of traumas in daily lives, reducing the levels frequency, or duration of activation
 is part of the journey of healing. 

While traumas can have their drawbacks, there can also be benefits.  
PTSD and CPTSD are not a death sentence, they are akin to a seed which has been planted and needs nourishment to become bigger, stronger and better than ever before.

Trauma can provide insight, motivation and a drive for change.  
Finding ways to use these skills can help reduce the impact on future generations.
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