Trauma-Informed: Beyond Knowledge
“True trauma-informed care is reflected in how someone listens, the safety they create, and their capability to stay with you throughout your healing process.”
Why it Matters
Being trauma-informed means recognising that our physical health, emotions, and behaviours are shaped by past experiences, especially those that may have overwhelmed our capacity to cope.
Trauma isn’t limited to catastrophic events; it can also stem from ongoing stress, lack of safety, early emotional neglect, or relational disconnection.
A trauma-informed approach begins with a shift in perspective: it asks, “What happened to you?” rather than “What’s wrong with you?”
It’s the awareness that context matters, behaviour is often a reflection of protection, and healing begins with understanding.
How This is Reflected in My Work
Within Compassionate Inquiry (CI), the psychotherapeutic approach developed by Dr Gabor Maté and Sat Dharam Kaur, trauma awareness is woven into every aspect of the process.
It builds on this awareness with practical tools and embodied skills, offering a somatic-based therapeutic model. These tools allow us to uncover and transform the unconscious patterns underlying physical symptoms, emotional distress, and self-protective behaviours.
In simple words, it helps people understand what their body is communicating and gently release the patterns that keep them stuck in stress, tension, or self-protection, creating a foundation of safety, trust, and compassion so the body can gradually feel safe enough to heal.
Through the training, practitioners learn to:
work with the nervous system and its protective responses (fight, flight, freeze, fawn);
cultivate deep presence and attunement with clients;
recognise when trauma may be activated in the body and respond safely;
support regulation through curiosity and compassion, not force or re-exposure.
CI isn’t a technique, it’s a way of being with another human: respectful, grounded, and deeply attuned to what the body communicates beneath words.
Competency in this trauma-informed modality is built through depth of training, lived integration, and supervised experience, combining somatic awareness, compassion, and attuned presence.
About My Compassionate Inquiry Training
I hold a Certificate of Completion for one year of Compassionate Inquiry training.
This is not a short course or “add-on” module, it’s in-depth training in trauma awareness, embodiment, and the compassionate presence that underpins sustainable healing.
The Certificate of Completion acknowledges over 120 hours of live training, group mentorship, and practical application in working safely and compassionately with trauma, the nervous system, and subconscious patterns.
It demonstrates my competence in applying the Compassionate Inquiry framework within my nutrition and wellbeing practice.
You can learn more about what this qualification involves and how it’s accredited here: