Welcome to
CPTSD Foundation
Successfully equipping complex trauma survivors and practitioners with compassionate support, skills, and trauma-informed education since 2014.
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.
MPM Circle
Mindfulness, Prayer, and Meditation
The MPM Circle is a 9-week journey of incorporating Mindfulness, Prayer, and Meditation into your healing, helping you stay connected and grounded. These important aspects of healing can be an integral part of everyday life in all areas. New program will begin in early 2021.
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.
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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 Role of Nurses in PTSD Recovery
Many don’t realize how vital nurses often are in PTSD recovery. When it comes to this topic, there’s a sort of standard image that comes to mind. It typically involves a mental health professional performing cognitive therapy or exposure therapy on a patient...
Traumatic Stress and Trauma Releasing Exercises
Traumatic stress causes many problems for survivors and others. We don't feel well enough to accomplish our life goals or to function in day-to-day routines. There is a new solution to traumatic stress, and it is called Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE®). This...
Paying for Your Trauma Healthcare Team
Healthcare is one of the highest expenses most people will incur during their lifetimes. The high cost of healthcare has driven many to worry about how they can afford to pay for it, causing some to ignore their mental and physical health problems. This July, our...
How Do Adverse Childhood Experiences Affect You Today?
The answer will leave you speechless. Adults who experienced adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), aka traumatic experiences as children, still pay for what happened to them years, even decades later. But what are adverse childhood experiences? And how do they...
A Trauma-Informed Mental Health Treatment Team
Healing from complex trauma takes time, and having a treatment team that is supportive and well-trained in trauma-informed care can be an enormous help. In this article, we shall discuss together more disciplines you can have on your care team and how they can help...
This is how to feel all your emotions – and not be overwhelmed – with one little word
I learned an important concept about how to feel emotions again safely – especially after trauma– over 26 years ago from my favorite graduate school professor, the late Terry Taylor Smith, LMFT: When you use the word “but” between two statements, it negates...
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.
