After completing academic studies in the area of trauma, I was looking for an organisation that taught the kinds of trauma-informed therapeutic skills that I had been reading about. As soon as I came across TRIA, I could immediately see that it spoke to what I had been looking for, so I enrolled in the Foundational course. Now that I have finished three years of experiential training with them, I can only say that I learned far far more than I could ever have imagined when I was only reading about it! All credit goes to the facilitators, who are highly experienced therapists and trainers, the steadily growing community of students and graduates, in all of our different backgrounds and ways of being, and -- particularly -- the strong, ethical underpinning of the institute, which fosters an inclusive, supportive and usefully challenging learning experience. If anyone were to be looking for developing PACFA-accredited skills in a well-established therapeutic modality that values relationships, authenticity and empathy -- along with a thorough grounding in what contemporary neuroscience continues to tell us about the embodied effects of trauma -- this is the place to come!

Jennifer Craig