Trauma-informed, somatic, and culturally grounded education.
Trauma-informed, somatic, and culturally grounded education.
Trauma-Informed Education for Professionals Working with Complex Trauma
Whether your clients carry complex trauma, intergenerational trauma, or both, TIES gives you the clinical framework, the somatic tools, and the Indigenous lens to work with them more safely and more effectively.
Created on Ts’msyen Territory · Tahltan and Gitxsan · Certified Trauma-Informed Educator · Certified Somatic Coach · Somatic EMDR · 20+ years in education and social development
What TIES Offers
Trauma Informed Education Services exists because complex trauma is chronically undertrained and because the clients who need the most careful, culturally safe practice are often the ones whose needs are most misread.
TIES offers continuing education for helping professionals that is clinically grounded, somatically informed, and rooted in an Indigenous lens. Not as a specialty. As a foundation.
Who This Is For
TIES training is designed for therapists and counsellors working with complex trauma, C-PTSD, and dissociation, educators and school-based professionals supporting trauma-exposed students, social workers, frontline helpers, and community support workers, healthcare professionals seeking a trauma-informed framework for their practice, and any helping professional who wants to understand the body, the nervous system, and the cultural dimensions of trauma more deeply.
If you work with people who carry complex trauma, this is for you.
The Three Pillars of Trauma Informed Education Services
Trauma-Informed
Moving beyond symptom management toward a genuine understanding of how chronic trauma shapes the nervous system, the sense of self, and the capacity for relationship.
Somatic
Bringing the body into clinical practice, not as an add-on, but as the primary site of trauma and the primary site of healing. Bottom-up before top-down.
Culturally Grounded
An Indigenous lens woven throughout, not added on. Honouring land, ancestry, and relational healing as clinical knowledge, not as cultural competency checkboxes.
Featured Course
Understanding Complex Trauma
PTSD vs. C-PTSD · Somatic Foundations · Emotional Flashbacks · Indigenous Lens
A two-and-a-half-hour professional development course for clinicians at all levels. Build the clinical framework, understand what gets missed in standard training, and leave with practical somatic tools and a culturally grounded lens you can bring into your practice the following week.
Launching May 31, 2026. Join the waitlist for the early bird rate of $85 USD.
Returning to Shore
A free introduction to polyvagal concepts, grounding practices, and reflective journaling, written for professionals who want to understand nervous system regulation from the inside out before teaching it to clients.
A Note on Positionality
I am Tahltan on my mother’s side and Gitxsan on my father’s side. I am a member of the Tsesk’iye (Crow) Clan and I live and work on Ts’msyen Territory in Kxeen (Prince Rupert), BC. I carry C-PTSD. I bring thirty years of lived research alongside formal training in trauma-informed education, somatic coaching, and somatic EMDR.
I teach from the inside of this experience, not from a position of removed expertise. That is not a limitation. It is the foundation of everything TIES offers.
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