Trauma Recovery Coaches:

• Acknowledge past traumas but focuses on the present
• Acknowledge with gentle curiosity the maladaptive coping mechanisms, unhealthy behaviors, and broken core beliefs developed through trauma
• Educate clients about the effects of trauma, developmental needs, the neuroscience of trauma, psychoeducation, and coping strategies
• Normalize the healing journey, how healing happens and what growth looks like
• Help clients build a compassionate view of themselves, others, and the world
• Believe that clients have what it takes within themselves to heal, and we help them see that
• Collaborate with clients to create sustainable recovery goals specific to the client, assesses progress against those goals, and adjusts goals, as needed
• Create action steps aligned to goals and identifies obstacles as they arise
• Maintain a safe space for clients to discuss and process where they are in their healing journey
• Empower clients to solve their own problems
• Share personal experiences to let the client know they are not alone and to validate the client’s experience

Trauma Recovery Coaches do not:

• Treat, diagnose, or assess a client’s mental health
• Prescribe and gives advice about medication
• Prescribe treatment
• “Process” trauma with clients
• Work with clients who are at risk for harming themselves or others unless under the care of a therapist or licensed mental health practitioner
• Work outside their window of competence and training