What Is Trauma-Informed Care?

If you have experienced trauma, you may have found that traditional "talk therapy" does not always feel like enough. Trauma-informed care is an approach that understands this and works with it, not against it.

Who It's For

Trauma-informed care is for anyone who has experienced something overwhelming — a single traumatic event, prolonged stress, or the accumulated weight of many smaller hurts. It is also for people who are not sure whether what they experienced "counts" as trauma but sense that something from their past is still present.

What It Means

Trauma-informed care is not a specific technique — it is a framework. The core principles are safety (your sense of safety comes first), trustworthiness (clear boundaries), choice (you control the pace), collaboration (we work as partners), and empowerment (your strengths are recognised). A trauma-informed therapist understands that behaviours that look like "resistance" are often survival strategies that kept you safe.

How It Works at Little Big Journeys

I take a trauma-informed approach in everything I do. We never push into material you are not ready to explore. We work at your pace, with your permission, and we pay attention to your body's signals as well as your words. The goal is not to make you relive what happened, but to help you find a way of living that is not governed by it.

You Are Not Broken

The ways you have adapted to survive are not weaknesses. They are evidence of your strength. Healing does not mean becoming a different person — it means reclaiming the parts of yourself that trauma asked you to set aside.