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Trauma Coaching: The Basics

Trauma Coaching: The Basics is an introductory course designed to equip helping professionals, coaches, and facilitators with foundational knowledge and practical skills to support individuals impacted by trauma.
  • Teacher
    Dr. Athena Phillips
  • Date
    October 8, 2026
  • Time
    12PM - 1PM PT
  • Format
    Online / In-person
About This Live Training
Target Audience
Instructor

About This Live Training

The course emphasizes a strengths-based, non-clinical coaching approach that prioritizes safety, empowerment, and forward movement. Learners will gain an understanding of how trauma can disrupt attention, memory, emotional regulation, and engagement—key factors that influence personal growth and learning readiness.Trauma Coaching:

The Basics is an introductory course designed to equip helping professionals, coaches, and facilitators with foundational knowledge and practical skills to support individuals impacted by trauma. Participants will explore a clear and accessible definition of trauma, including acute, chronic, and complex forms, and examine how trauma affects the brain, nervous system, behavior, and capacity for learning.

Grounded in the Orenda and Kalos trauma coaching framework, this course introduces five core tenets that guide the coaching process: Growth After Trauma, Finding Purpose, Authenticity to the True Self, Self-Agency, and Connection & Community. Participants will learn how to translate these principles into practical coaching strategies that build resilience, foster self-awareness, and support sustainable change.

In addition, the course clearly defines the parameters, scope, and ethical boundaries of trauma-informed coaching, distinguishing it from therapy while highlighting when referral to clinical support is appropriate. Through skill-building exercises, reflective practices, and applied tools, participants will leave with a foundational toolkit to confidently and responsibly support clients on their healing and growth journeys.

Target Audience

Mental health providers/therapists who want to expand their knowledge base around trauma, existing trauma coaches, existing coaches who want to specialize their practice, Health Providers interested in expanding their practice to include trauma coaching.

Instructor

Athena Phillips
LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker
I completed my master's in social work from Portland State University, where I was the recipient of the Laurels Scholarship and graduated Magna Cum Laude. Following graduation, I worked as a medical social worker in the emergency department, medical floors and on an inpatient geriatric psychiatry unit. I started my private practice in 2007, which specialized in trauma and dissociative disorders. After five years of serving this population, the need for more holistic approaches to trauma that were safe and accessible to survivors became increasingly clear. In 2012 I started Integrative Trauma Treatment Center (ITTC), an outpatient mental health clinic housed in Portland, OR. ITTC offers continuing education which offers specialized trainings with a mission to include and elevate clinical voices from all over the world. My most recent endeavor was the launch of an online Trauma Coach Certification course that is designed to be globally accessible and culturally adaptable. This project was designed following trainings I facilitated in Rwanda that were an effort to provide a multicultural platform for clinicians to learn about other cultural lenses through which they could approach their work. My contribution in Rwanda extended to the development of mHub Rwanda, which is an outpatient mental health clinic that is run by Rwandans, for Rwandans. I continue to volunteer my services as a trauma consultant within the mHub community.

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