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What is CPTSD?
Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD, C-PTSD, Complex PTSD) describes the results of ongoing, inescapable, relational trauma. Unlike Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Complex PTSD typically involves being hurt by another person. These hurts are ongoing, repeated, and often involving a betrayal and loss of safety.
Featured Programs.
Check out these featured trauma-informed resources or click the button to view all of our available programs.
Trauma-Informed peer support in a validating and supportive group atmosphere, to supplement individual healing work.
A weekly body-centered healing program focused on helping survivors engage with the present moment.
Join our virtual group and work on your favorite creative modality together with your leader and other survivors.
STAR Network is a community built on a simple but radical belief: that healing is possible, and that no one should have to do it alone. We bring together trauma survivors, families, and the people who support them — through peer connection, education, and events that turn shared experience into shared strength. Whether you’re just beginning to understand your story or years into your recovery, STAR Network is a place where you belong.
On May 22, STAR Network hosts its 3rd annual Scars to STARs summit — a free virtual event bringing together survivors, scientists, and healers to ask the question that matters most: what actually heals trauma? This year’s theme, “ACE Studies: The Next 30 Years,” looks beyond the damage that childhood adversity causes and toward the communities, relationships, and practices that reverse it. If your story has brought you here, this summit was built for you.
Learn more and register at no cost at starnetwork.org/scars-to-stars-2026.
Latest from our Blog
Weekly content from guest blog writers, including mental health professionals and real life trauma survivor stories.
Why Clinical Consultation Is Essential for Every Therapist-And Every Client
Therapists hold space for profound pain, trauma, and transformation. Each day, clinicians sit with stories of loss, resilience, and survival. This work is both meaningful and demanding, and it requires us, as therapists, to cultivate support, reflection, and...
From Freeze to Flow: Strategies for Recognizing and Managing Career-Related Shutdown Responses
A Trauma-Informed Guide to Overcoming Workplace Freeze Responses Many of us who have experienced trauma find ourselves struggling with shutdown responses at work, often without realizing what’s happening. These moments of freeze aren’t character flaws or professional...
When Trauma Looks Like Love: Breaking the Cycle and the Bond
Unresolved trauma reshapes how we love, argue, and attach. Here’s the plain-spoken neuroscience behind relationship breakdown and trauma bonds—and what it takes to reset the nervous system without shame.
Big Feelings? How Kids (and Adults) Can Learn to Handle Them
Do you ever notice that big feelings - like frustration, anxiety, or sadness - can feel overwhelming, confusing, or even unmanageable? This month, I want to share a wonderful resource that helps kids (and anyone young at heart) learn how to notice, name, and navigate...
Too Self-Aware for My Own Good
The Narrator in Your Own Meltdown Do you ever catch yourself mid-meltdown, calmly narrating your own emotional chaos like a nature documentary? “Here we observe the adult survivor in his natural habitat, spiraling over the way a text message is worded…” That’s the...
The Past Isn’t Over Until It’s Honest: Why Survivors Stay Stuck And How Peace Actually Forms (MK)
People don’t stay stuck because they’re weak. They stay stuck because the body, the story, and the conscience were never brought into agreement. This is a field guide to finishing what trauma started without rewriting history or betraying yourself.
What Community Members Are Saying.
How our programs are changing the lives of complex trauma survivors aorund the world.
Daily Recovery Support
Member
“My FRAMILY is amazing. You all are amazing and inspiring. I truly love all everyone on the calls and thank you from the bottom of my heart for helping me heal through this community.”
Healing Book Club
Member
”It is very meaningful and I feel that I have established true, authentic connections. It’s comforting to have a designated space each week that’s safe, normalizing, educational, and secure. Thank you for this incredible resource!”
Daily Recovery Support
Member
“The daily calls are helping me to take better care of myself and have boundaries. How to recognize safe people and unsafe people and receive encouragement and support that I do not get otherwise. They help me recognize I am not alone in my feelings and thoughts.”
Trauma-Friendly Meditation
Member
I have experienced significant positive effects in my life since starting this class which have impacted my life (in a medium to large way). I have found that the acceptance component taught within this style of meditation has been extremely valuable.
Daily Recovery Support
Member
“The foundation does great work, and I’ve benefited greatly from all that was included in the subscription and always thought it was great value! Thank you for making such a great contribution to the CPTSD community and to humanity in general.”
Weekly Creative Group
Member
“My FRAMILY is amazing. You all are amazing and inspiring. I truly love everyone on the calls and thank you from the bottom of my heart for helping me heal through this community.”
Additional Resources.
Check out these accessible and no-cost resources to aid in your healing journey.
Trauma-Informed Tuesday Newsletter
Direct to your inbox every week
Trauma-Friendly Meditation Classes
Monthly Live Classes or Self-Paced Course
Work with a Coach
Free discovery session to see if working with a trauma-informed coach is a good choice
About CPTSD Foundation.
Our Mission: To leave a legacy of healing for future generations by providing daily support between therapy appointments
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