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We are
redefining
healing.

 
Moving principles of trauma care
beyond the clinical setting —
and into daily life.
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Redefining Healing

Center for Trauma and Embodiment (CFTE) is the leader in training and education for mental health and movement practitioners in innovative, body-based interventions for complex trauma and PTSD, based on decades of original research and collaboration.

CFTE'S 7TH ANNUAL
International Conference
On Trauma & Embodiment
April 10–12, 2026

Three days that will change how you think about healing.

This is where clinicians, movement practitioners, community leaders, researchers, educators, and advocates come together — not to sit and listen, but to move, reflect, connect, and be challenged.

100% Online - ASL Accessible
$79 / $99 / $119 Sliding Scale Pricing

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We are redefining healing, 

Because the field needed it.

We built CFTE on a simple conviction: that trauma care should practice what it preaches — shared power, human dignity, honest accountability, and the understanding that healing doesn't only happen in a therapist's office.

It happens in a weight room. On a yoga mat. In a community center. On a stage. In the places where people actually live their lives.

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Bring the body into Healing

Conventional, top-down trauma therapies often neglect the impact of trauma on the body.An embodied, bottom-up approach makes healing possible for the whole person.

Join thousands of trauma-informed professionals around the world who successfully treat trauma by centering body awareness in the healing process.

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WHAT WE DO

CFTE is an educational organization that prepares mental health professionals, movement practitioners, community leaders, and care providers to bring embodied principles of trauma care into their work. Our programs are grounded in decades of original research — and in a deep belief that trauma is not a personal failure. It is a response to overwhelming conditions. And healing from it should be as accessible as those conditions are inevitable.

TRAINING PROGRAMS

Where does your work begin?

Each training program below represents a different entry point into embodied trauma care. All of them are grounded in the same research, the same values, and the same commitment to expanding where healing can happen.

TCTSY

Trauma Sensitive Yoga

The world's first yoga-based intervention for complex trauma found to be as effective as talk therapy. With certified facilitators in more than 50 countries, TCTSY is the most established and widely researched program in the CFTE ecosystem. For yoga teachers, mental health professionals, healthcare providers, and community workers.

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TIWL

Trauma-Informed Weight Lifting

Weight lifting, when approached through a trauma-informed lens, becomes a powerful tool for building agency, resilience, and nervous system regulation. TIWL is establishing the evidence base for movement as medicine. For personal trainers, fitness coaches, physical therapists, and movement practitioners.

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TIIP

Trauma-Informed Improv & Play

Improvisational theatre is a body-first practice. TIIP draws on the principles of improv to create experiences of choice, presence, and embodied healing — for individuals and groups living with complex trauma. For therapists, social workers, educators, and community program leaders.

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TIME

Trauma-Informed Mindful Eating

TIME explores the intersection of trauma, nourishment, and the body — moving away from control and correction, and toward curiosity, compassion, and a more empowered relationship with food. For dietitians, therapists, coaches, wellness providers, and individuals.

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Provide Embodied Trauma Care


Improve your treatment approach with innovative trauma interventions. Our evidence-based care models are applicable to both individual and group settings and have been found to be especially effective for people with the most severe psychological trauma.

Survivors are looking for new ways to heal from trauma. Center for Trauma and Embodiment is leading the way with accessible, body-based treatment modalities.

Our programs include:
TCTSY Trauma Sensitive Yoga
Trauma Informed Weight Lifting
Trauma Informed Improv & Play
Trauma Informed Mindful Eating

Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY)

TCTSY Trauma Sensitive Yoga is the original yoga-based treatment for complex trauma and PTSD, grounded in both trauma theory and yoga philosophy, with hundreds of certified facilitators around the world.

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Trauma Informed Weight Lifting (TIWL)

TIWL explores the power of weight lifting to heal by establishing an evidence base for weight lifting as an adjunctive treatment for trauma, and by providing education and support to the weight lifting community.

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ReScripted

 TIIP is therapeutic methodology designed to blend trauma informed practices with the healing capacity of embodied play and the whole-body nature of improvisational theatre (or improv) for the treatment of complex trauma.

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