Welcome to
CPTSD Foundation
Successfully equipping complex trauma survivors and practitioners with compassionate support, skills, and trauma-informed education.
Empowering the Healing Journey
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 Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD)?
“Complex PTSD comes in response to chronic traumatization over the course of months or, more often, years. This can include emotional, physical, and/or sexual abuses, domestic violence, living in a war zone, being held captive, human trafficking, and other organized rings of abuse, and more. While there are exceptional circumstances where adults develop C-PTSD, it is most often seen in those whose trauma occurred in childhood”. Learn More…
Not Sure Where to Begin? Start Here!
Our website has a large volume of content, and trying to figure out where to begin can sometimes feel overwhelming. Finding exactly what you need should be as simple as possible, so we’ve created a Start Here page that highlights some of the most searched for programs and resources on our site. Of course, you can always contact us anytime for help!
CPTSD Resources & Programs
Serving Survivors and Practitioners
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!
Daily Encouraging Texts
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.
Safe Support Groups
Private and Safe
Our safe support groups are 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 in a private Facebook group.
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.
Virtual Summit for Survivors
We Are Healing Trauma
In 2020, we began what will be an annual summit, bringing together clinicians, authors, and thought leaders in the world of trauma recovery to inspire and encourage you on your healing journey.
To see our full range of programs and resources, Click Here
You Can Help a Survivor
The CPTSD Scholarship Program provides a means of offsetting the costs to join the Daily Recovery Support Calls and other programs at CPTSD Foundation. Many survivors struggle financially to make ends meet, and still desperately need trauma-informed support as they learn to heal from their past.
Donations from generous people just like you make it possible for men and women all over the world to gain access to the resources they need to manage, heal, and cope with their CPTSD symptoms. Any amount can make a huge difference.
Get Involved with CPTSD Foundation
If you have a skill set you feel could benefit the Foundation, and a desire to help others, then we want to hear from you. Please fill out the informational form to learn more.
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, and thought leaders who share their lived experience, research, poetry, academic content, and more on our blog!
Call for Speakers
We are actively seeking Licensed Clinicians, Certified Coaches, Authors, and thought leaders in the world of trauma-recovery to join our Daily Recovery Support Call Leader team. If you’re interested in helping encourage, inform, and equip our members with trauma-informed support, please contact us.
Recent Blog Posts
The Connection Between PTSD and the Menopausal Transition
Even though there is an abundance of literature on PTSD, we lack a thorough understanding of the biological causes that explain why it is more than twice as prevalent in women than men. Women are also more likely to experience chronic PTSD for more than a year....
Healing from Codependency After Physical and Emotional Abuse
So far, in this series, we have discussed narcissistic and childhood abuse and how codependency can become a problem for survivors. However, physical and emotional abuse is also rampant in our society and tearing the future lives of our children apart. According to...
Codependency After Childhood Sexual Abuse
Codependency causes people to feed off each other’s emotions and to lose their ability to care for themselves. Codependency is a cruel dance where one person needs the other who needs to be needed. Thus, you end up with one adult being the giver and the other the...
Heartfelt Wishes for Healing, Compassion and Safety in the New Year
You and I have endured yet another year experiencing the impact of global trauma. We all need healing, hope, and compassion more than ever! In everything we do at Brickel and Associates, our goal is to allow for and aid in healing for our clients. We strive to...
Seven Ways to Find Your Inner Peace
As an adult child of an alcoholic, the quiet in my household was most likely always followed by chaos. The thing I craved the most as a child was peace. The uneasy feeling of impending doom followed me well into my adulthood. When there was happiness in my life, I...
Codependency and Narcissistic Abuse
Many of us have heard of codependency and narcissism. Codependency is when two people are locked in a life where they feed off on another, causing mental anguish. Narcissism is when one of the pair is self-centered, arrogant, and lacks empathy for their partner. In...
Weekly Live Q&A
Join us every Monday at 9 pm Eastern for a weekly, interactive, Q&A with Athena Moberg on our YouTube Channel. Each week, Athena takes your questions and shares insight on healing from Complex Trauma. All are welcome!
Foundation Events
You can keep track of events held by the Foundation, by checking our Calendar. Everything from topics on the Daily Recovery Support Calls and Healing Book Club, to Weekly Q&A’s on our YouTube Channel.
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.
CPTSD LEARNING CENTER
As a member, you have access to any of the programs you’ve purchased, as well as access to any free programs. You can access your Learning Center Account 24/7, from any device with an internet connection.
Support 7 Days a Week
Here at CPTSD Foundation, we are taking a revolutionary approach to healing from complex trauma. We understand each survivor heals in their own way and in their own time. There is no cookie-cutter approach to healing and building up resilience.
Being survivors ourselves, we know the importance of ongoing support, even when seeing a trauma-informed helping professional. That’s why we’ve developed Daily Recovery Support, to help take your journey to the next level of healing.
We invite you to learn more about our daily calls and consider joining us as we cover a wide range of topics which are sure to inspire and encourage you as you begin or continue to break free from the chains of trauma and seek the life you dream of and deserve.
