Welcome to
CPTSD Foundation
Successfully equipping complex trauma survivors and practitioners with compassionate support, skills, and trauma-informed education.
Everyday Application
Trauma-informed information that can be used in your daily healing.
Professional Leadership
Programs and resources are overseen by trauma-informed personnel.
Survivors & Practitioners
Programs designed for both survivors & helping professionals.
What is CPTSD?
A handy resource page on Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Weekly Livestream on YouTube
Join us on Monday’s at 7pm eastern for our weekly trauma-informed livestream on YouTube.
Frequent Questions
Check out our FAQ page for general information on our programs and our organization.
CPTSD Resources & Programs
All of our programs are trauma-informed, which means that each one is developed and facilitated through the lens of understanding what survivors need to help feel supported and encouraged as they navigate every day life in the wake of a traumatic past. No invalidation, no judgment, no shame. You are accepted just as you are, and you are welcome here.
Daily Recovery Support
7 Days a Week, 365 Days a Year
We’re here for you with affordable group calls, in a safe atmosphere, focusing on encouraging you and equipping you with skills and information you can use every single day in your healing journey. Take your healing to the next level!
Healing Book Club
Trauma-Healing Book Chat
Join us every week as we read and discuss trauma-informed resources in a safe atmosphere, by world-renown authors. Registration is always open, so you can join us anytime. Learn more and get signed up today!
Weekly Creative Group
Creative Expression in Healing
The Weekly Creative Group is a safe place to come and express yourself through creative methods. Bring your paints, crayons, sketch pads, arts & crafts, or virtually any other creative art, and join us as we continue healing together.
Trauma-Informed Yoga
Weekly Yoga Classes
This weekly, virtual, yoga program is trauma-informed and focused on helping survivors engage with the present moment, in a validating and encouraging atmosphere.
Daily Encouraging Text
Encouragement on the Go
One text per day, with an encouraging thought or nugget of wisdom to help inspire you as you heal from your past and embrace the hope that is possible in recovery. Start receiving your texts for only $4.99 per month. Cancel Anytime.
CPTSD Community Safe Group
Private and Safe
Our CPTSD Community Safe Group is a place where survivors from around the globe come together to help heal in a safe community. Come and be a part of this Free supportive atmosphere.
Get Involved
You can make a difference in the life of a survivor
Call for Writers
If you enjoy writing, we want to hear from you. We are always looking for guest writers for our blog. Our writers include survivors, coaches, clinicians, authors, and thought leaders in the field of trauma recovery.
Volunteer
Do you want to give back and help others using a skill set you have, and a desire to make a difference in the lives of trauma survivors? Click that button and check out the current volunteer opportunities available.
Donate
Donations from generous people just like you make it possible for survivors across the globe, who are struggling financially, to gain access to our healing centered programs & resources.
Recent Posts from the Blog...
I’m Not Wounded, Broken, F’d Up, And Neither Are You!
If someone considers you wounded, it just means they can’t see your authentic self. Of course, it might be buried under emotional rubble, but everyone has an innate intelligence. Collecting rubble happens, but it doesn’t need to define anyone. Like the weather,...
Are You Able to Hold Hope in Life?
“People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you make them feel.” – Maya Angelou Finding hope, let alone holding hope as a thread through life these days, can seem like a tough task for so many. Trauma...
Betrayal Trauma & CPTSD
What is Betrayal Trauma?
How do you begin to heal when you discover that your partner has been unfaithful?
How do you learn to trust again when a family member has betrayed you?
How do you move forward when your boss abused their position of power and sexually harassed you?
What Suicide Looks Like For Me
TRIGGER WARNING!! The content in this article discusses suicide and suicidal ideations. Suicide is the act of causing the death of yourself. When people think of suicide an image of someone jumping off a bridge or a cliff may come to mind. Maybe even jumping onto...
Finding Gold in the Cracks
Finding Gold in the Cracks (as published in the HeartBalm Healing Podcast at https://heartbalm.substack.com) Living in the contrast of life can feel daunting, overwhelming, and uncomfortable yet everything in this life is about contrast. Slowing down the images and...
How to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence
All people always need to change their self-awareness to compensate for what they encounter in their lives regularly. One way to accomplish this is to raise your emotional intelligence. This article will again discuss emotional intelligence and outline how you can...
The calls have catapulted me forward in my recovery in multiple ways. I now have an anchor that is reliable, consistent, encouraging, educational, safe and soul enriching. There are still tough days…but I no longer get stuck in isolation for long periods of time.
I am re assured that I’m not alone and others have simular experiences and struggles. I appreciate the validation and encouragement I recieve there and has really helped me in my healing journey. I have made new friends and have a safe place to show up on a daily basis.
Our Wonderful Partners
Illuma Health
Illuma Health provides discounted access their library of courses and programs to mental health professionals. Topics include trauma-informed facilitation, fundamentals, relational somatics, group workshops, and more!
TAR TALES
Tar Tales was created the team behind Partners in Men’s Health, to provide a safe and confidential space for everyone to share their truth through the process of writing down their traumatic, real life stories. (Toxic Abusive Relationship).
PARTNERS IN MEN’S HEALTH
Partners in Men’s Health helps all partners and spouses locked into TAR while focusing on men primarily. PMH supports men to heal with dignity through the concealed pandemic of Emotional Abuse at the hands of Personality Disordered loved ones.
UNSILENCED
Our mission is to stop institutional child abuse by empowering self-advocates to promote lasting social change. We envision a world where youth are free from institutionalization and the voices of young people are respected in the development of their own mental, emotional, and physical well-being.
NATIONAL NURSING ADVOCACY ALLIANCE
We are a PRO-nurse advocacy organization working in solidarity with NNAA membership to repair and heal a broken healthcare system to help those who have undergone unjust discipline, slander and abuse by various state nursing regulatory bodies.
TOGETHER ESTRANGED
Together Estranged (TE) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in Boston, MA. TE supports and empowers those estranged from family members, often due to abuse, childhood trauma, lack of acceptance after coming out as LGBTQ+ and more. The organization provides social support services, mental health workshops and events to combat loneliness and build a sense of community.