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Trauma Informed Approaches for Adults

Trauma Informed Approaches for Adults

Trauma-Informed Approaches (TIA) provide a practical framework for safer, more effective practice with adults, supporting both individual wellbeing and sustainable organisational culture change. They are grounded in the understanding that trauma is a psychosocial injury that shapes behaviour, health, engagement, and relationships.

At the heart of trauma-informed practice is a shift from asking “What is wrong with you?” to “What has happened to you?” – reducing blame, increasing safety, and improving professional responses. Our training helps professionals connect life experience to present-day challenges, enabling more effective engagement, reduced escalation, and stronger outcomes for adults accessing services.

This programme is designed for adult-facing professionals and organisations seeking to embed trauma-informed practice across teams, improve staff confidence, and reduce burnout and compassion fatigue. It draws on the PACE model (Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity, Empathy) and real-world practice examples.

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Trauma Informed Approaches for Adults

Trauma-Informed Approaches (TIA) provide a framework for compassionate service delivery and organisational culture change. They are grounded in the understanding that trauma is a psychosocial injury that can deeply affect an individual’s health, relationships, and sense of self.

At the heart of this approach is a shift in perspective — from asking “What is wrong with you?” to “What has happened to you?”

Our goal is to help professionals connect the dots between life experience and current challenges, because when this happens, they can support recovery, build resilience, and create more effective engagement.

This training is designed for professionals who work with adults affected by trauma and for organisations that want to embed a trauma-informed culture across their teams. 

Our training draws on the PACE model (Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity, Empathy) and real-world practice examples to bring the principles to life in any professional setting.

Explore our Train the Trainer options here.

5 Courses
15 Follow-On Courses
100+ eLearning Courses

For information on Pace and TIA

Click here
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Adult Trauma-Informed Approaches

Adult Trauma-Informed Approaches (TIA) are a framework for interpersonal service delivery and organizational change that is grounded in the understanding of how trauma should be viewed as a psychosocial injury and can impact an individual’s life, health, and sense of self.

The key principles are:

  • A fundamental shift in perspective from asking, “What is wrong with you?” to asking, “What has happened to you?”
  • Acknowledgement of the widespread impact of trauma and understanding potential paths for recovery.
  • Recognition that mental health difficulties and challenges with social skills often develop in response to a person’s life experiences, including traumatic and adverse events.
  • Our goal is to support individuals in understanding the connection between their life experiences and current challenges, helping them find effective ways to cope, move forward, and recover.

PACE and TIA for Adults

PACE serves as a relational tool that operationalizes the core principles of a trauma-informed approach:

  1. Creating Safety and Trust: The Acceptance and Empathy elements of PACE directly address the trauma survivor’s need to feel safe and seen without judgment, helping to rebuild trust that was likely violated by trauma.
  2. Empowerment and Voice: Curiosity invites the adult to explore their own internal experience, giving them the choice and control over what they share, and fostering empowerment.
  3. Healing Shame: The non-judgmental stance inherent in Acceptance and Empathycounters the intense feelings of shame often experienced by trauma survivors, replacing them with a sense of worthiness and unconditional regard.

By embedding the PACE mindset “way of being” into interactions, professionals can offer an adult a corrective and secure relational experience, which is crucial for regulating intense emotions and processing trauma.

Start with the Foundations in Trauma-Informed Approaches training, then move through the four PACE in Practice modules. Completing all five modules is crucial for implementing meaningful practice improvements and fully integrating PACE into your community.

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Micro-Learning

Respects Your Schedule: Modules are designed to take 5-10 minutes to complete. Whether it’s during a handover or a quick tea break, learning fits into the gaps of the day.

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Respects Your Schedule: Modules are designed to be completed in 30 to 50 minutes, fitting realistically into a lunch break or a downtime moment at work.

Deep dive models

Respects Your Schedule: Modules are designed to be completed in 2 to 4 hours +, these modules are designed to be deep dive subject reviews, enabling you to take a full refresher of the topic instead of a training session.

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Boosts Knowledge Retention: Our brains aren’t built to absorb hours of data at once. Small, focused bursts of information help staff remember key teaching points.

Boosts Knowledge Retention: It’s important to actively engage with our knowledge to maintain it. These modules have been thoughtfully created to help us reinforce our understanding of essential processes and assess our retention of the information effectively.

Boosts Knowledge Retention: In these modules, we thoroughly explore each topic, providing an in-depth understanding comparable to that of a live training event. This approach ensures that you gain valuable insights and knowledge to enhance your learning experience.

Instant Application: For instance, learn a de-escalation technique and put it into practice five minutes later.

Application: This course offers an opportunity to build on key insights into trauma-informed practices and to ensure they align with best practices, fostering improvement in our approach.

Application: This course is designed to provide a comprehensive 360-degree review and engagement in the topic, ensuring that everything from theory to practice is embedded in your learning journey.

Benefits: Short, engaging content (videos, quizzes, and infographics) keeps morale high and prevents staff from feeling overwhelmed by compliance requirements.

Benefits: This module serves as a training review to consolidate your learning and help identify gaps or misunderstandings in your knowledge.

Benefits: Zoom training may not be the best fit for everyone. While live courses can offer valuable benefits to some participants, many find that self-studying at their own pace can lead to even greater efficiency and understanding. This module aims to enhance that self-directed learning experience and provide the support you need to succeed.

Yes, when you complete the course, you will be invited to download your certificate. You can then share this with your manager if required.




You have one year from the date of starting your course to complete it.

Yes, you can buy them at today’s prices and allocate them to your team members later. You have one year to do that.



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