Support & Service Professionals hold the emotional weight of others every day. Without the right understanding, tools, and space to process what they witness, even the most dedicated helpers can burn out, shut down, or feel disconnected from themselves and their work.
My trauma training offers more than information. It offers transformation — personal, relational, and professional.
Grounded in the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM), Neuroscience, trauma research, and built from over 25 years of lived experience and cross-cultural expertise, my programmes help participants develop the skills, self-awareness, and emotional resilience needed to support others safely, sustainably, and with wholehearted presence.
Trauma training for helping professionals including:
- Counsellors
- Teachers
- NGO workers
- Social workers
- Carers
- Volunteers
- Community leaders
- Pastoral teams
- Spiritual leaders
- Healthcare support staff
Anyone in a helping role seeking trauma competence and personal growth. The training is suitable for individuals, teams and organisations.
Why trauma competence matters
Being trauma-informed is no longer enough.
Professionals — counsellors, teachers, NGO workers, social workers, carers, community volunteers, team leaders — often meet individuals who carry deep, unprocessed trauma. Many also absorb trauma indirectly through their work and relationships.
This training bridges a critical gap:
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1. Recognising trauma in others
Learn how complex trauma, cultural displacement, emotional neglect, relational wounds, and survival patterns shape behaviour across the lifespan.
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2. Working safely and effectively with trauma
Develop trauma-competent skills that move beyond theory and help you respond with clarity, attunement, and steadiness.
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3. Processing the trauma you witness
Support & Service Professionals frequently carry secondary trauma — often silently.
This programme gives you practical ways to regulate, release, and resource yourself so you stay grounded and well. -
4. Preventing burnout at its root
Burnout is not inevitable. With trauma competence and internal resilience, professionals work more clearly, connect more authentically, and sustain their impact long-term.
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5. Strengthening teams, systems, and communities
When helpers heal, the ripple effects reach families, classrooms, organisations, and wider communities.
This approach reflects the heart of my work:
Healing the helpers so they can help without losing themselves.
Our Training blends:
✔ Trauma competence
✔ Attachment & relational healing
✔ Emotional regulation
✔ Personal growth
✔ Cultural sensitivity
✔ Practical tools for preventing burnout
✔ Professional excellence with heart
Participants frequently report:
- healthier relationships with partners and families
- renewed confidence and emotional clarity
- less burnout and greater capacity
- deeper empathy and connection in their teams
- transformation that ripples into their communities
The trauma care training programme
A comprehensive, three-level training pathway that blends personal transformation, trauma theory, and practical skills — within a supportive, relational learning environment.
Trauma Care Training Programme (Semesters 1 & 2)
Certificate of Attendance
Ideal for Support & Service Professionals seeking foundational trauma competence and personal growth.
You will learn:
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Understanding Developmental Trauma, Complex Trauma, and Relational Trauma
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How trauma affects attachment, safety, and connection
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Trauma-competent psychosocial assessment
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Resource-oriented stabilisation skills
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Relationship competence and working with emotional regulation
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Intercultural perspectives on trauma and belonging
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Tools for building inner resilience and supporting self-care
You will be able to:
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Recognise trauma responses in children, adults, families, and teams
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Reduce stressful moments using stabilisation and grounding techniques
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Improve emotional regulation and conflict navigation
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Strengthen professional boundaries and relational clarity
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Create trauma-safe relationships in your workplace, community, and personal life
Mid-Level Trauma Transformation Counselling Skills
A deeper, practice-based training that develops your capacity to work with trauma-centred counselling skills.
Includes
- practice supervision,
- case consultation, and
- advanced relational counselling competencies.
Advanced Trauma Transformation Counselling Certificate: Trauma Transformation Counselling
For those wishing to deepen their expertise, integrate NARM principles into their work, and learn to support others through complex trauma with clarity, empathy, and regulation.
Our advanced certificate focuses on:
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Working with deeper emotional patterns
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Healing survival strategies and identity wounds
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Strengthening authentic connections in relationships
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Embodiment, attunement, and lasting transformation
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Applied trauma competence in professional settings
Cross-cultural trauma training
Building cross-cultural relationships and healing from trauma requires cultural understanding.
My training integrates extensive lived experience across China, Europe, and multicultural communities. This unique cross-cultural perspective ensures:
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Respect for cultural differences in emotional expression
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Understanding of displacement, expat stress, and intercultural relationships
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Sensitivity to shame-based systems and collectivist cultures
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Trauma-competent approaches that work across cultural frameworks
This training is especially supportive for:
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Multilingual and multicultural organisations
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Schools or NGOs working with diverse populations
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Professionals serving migrant, expat, or international communities
How the Training Works
Learning Methods:
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Live teacher interaction (online or in-person)
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Small group supervision sessions
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One-to-one counselling sessions
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Practice groups for personal and professional growth
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Trauma-competent skills training
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Psychoeducation and personal reflection exercises
Languages available
- English
- German
- Chinese (with interpreter support)
Format
- Online live interaction or in-person
- Short courses or full multi-level programmes
- Suitable for individuals, teams, and organisations
Why train with Tina Michaela
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Specialist in Complex Trauma & C-PTSD
Expertise in developmental trauma, relational trauma, narcissistic abuse, cross-cultural stress, and secondary trauma.
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Founder of the Trauma Transformation Training School
Hundreds of professionals trained across continents.
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Lived Cross-Cultural Experience
Understanding trauma in, through, and with cultures — not just in theory.
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Training that transforms the individual as much as the work
Because support and helping professionals deserve healing too.
FAQs
Support & Service Professionals, including:
- Counsellors
- Teachers
- NGO workers
- Social workers
- Carers
- Volunteers
- Community leaders
- Pastoral teams, Spiritual leaders
- Healthcare support staff
Anyone in a helping role seeking trauma competence and personal growth
The training is suitable for individuals, teams and organisations.