Certified Clinical Trauma Professional

A CCTP-II has a combination of experience and advanced training to help support the needs of trauma survivors. The certification is designed to help improve trauma treatment outcomes and transform clinical practice.

Specifically, I use the work of Dr. Janina Fisher, PhD, an international expert on trauma, who believes that "traumatic experiences leave a “living legacy” of effects that often persist for years and decades after the events are over. Historically, it has always been assumed that re-telling the story of what happened would resolve these effects. However, survivors report a different experience: Telling and re-telling the story of what happened to them often reactivates their trauma responses, overwhelming them rather than resolving the trauma. To transform traumatic experiences, survivors need to understand their symptoms and reactions as normal responses to abnormal events. They need ways to work with the symptoms that intrude on their daily activities, preventing a life beyond trauma."