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 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! Our goal is to provide you the very best programs & resources for your individual journey.
We Are Healing Trauma - Virtual Summit 2022
CPTSD Awareness Day is September 2nd! Each year we bring together clinicians, coaches, authors, teachers, and thought leaders in the field of trauma recovery, through exclusive one-on-one video interviews hosted by our Executive Director, Athena Petersen!
Be sure and secure your access and take advantage of the Early Bird Registration Discount!
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.
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.
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!
Get Involved
Do you enjoy volunteering? 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. We’ll contact you with the next steps.
Recent Blog Posts
Trauma Mess With Your Mind+Body Connection? This Tool Is For You
This article was originally published on The Mighty. There are two questions I often don’t know what to do with. “Where do you feel that in your body?” and “Can you describe that a little more for me? My reply is typically a shrug of the shoulders. I’m not...
Employment or Disability from Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Living with complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) is caused by repeated, severe trauma such as child abuse, neglect, or torture. This article will focus on what it is like to work when affected by complex post-traumatic stress disorder. Living in the U.S....
CPTSD and Family: Glorious, Painful, Isolation
***Trigger Warning - This article speaks about domestic violence*** The relationships between those with CPTSD and family are usually difficult. Typically the problems fall beyond the usual ‘you took my sweater’ level of travail.Last night as I was trying to keep...
Dissociation – What is It?
With the topic of trauma becoming more influential in the public arena, the narrative that surrounds this topic can become confusing. A related idea to trauma that may be unclear to many is dissociation. The word is a noun primarily and it is a psychological...
How to Be a Friend
Trauma creates extremes. Either we are enmeshed with another person, constantly driven to people pleasing and conflict avoidance or we become dominators ourselves and cancel out others to feed our own needs.
Enough with the Abuse and the Control of Women and Children
The outrage following the overturn of ROE V WADE was felt and expressed all over the world. I've watched "Stay Sweet - Pray - Obey" on Netflix recently. It is about a small community of a branch of Polygamists Mormons group. Members of the group are brainwashed to...
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.
Our Wonderful Partners
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.