The Evolving Landscape of Trauma Treatment
Preserving important clinical wisdom and extending its reach
The Impact: Why This Initiative Matters
This project was created to help bring some of the most important teachings in the trauma field to a global community of therapists and helping professionals.
This project was created to help bring some of the most important teachings in the trauma field to a global community of therapists and helping professionals. We had the opportunity to work with Quantum Way on shaping and building this project and filming a series of in-depth programs with clinicians whose work has helped shape how we understand trauma, attachment, dissociation, neglect, the body, and development.
These programs were filmed in an intimate, in-studio style to preserve the depth, humanity, and clinical richness of their teaching. What made this project especially meaningful to us was the chance to help capture this work in a way that feels lasting. Rather than short lectures or quick overviews, each program gave the speaker space to go more deeply into the ideas, clinical perspectives, and questions that have shaped their work over decades. In that sense, this series is intended to be a form of legacy teaching — not only sharing information, but preserving the knowledge, experience, and clinical perspective these teachers have developed over decades of work.
It also gave us the opportunity to help bring this body of work to an international audience, and to support the possibility of these teachings reaching the global community through international partnerships and multiple languages. We were grateful to be part of a project like this because we believe this kind of knowledge matters — for the field, for clinicians, and for the people they serve.
— Collectively Rooted
The Program
This series brings together in-depth training programs with internationally recognized clinicians whose work has helped shape how we understand and treat trauma today.
Each program focuses on a different but deeply connected area of trauma and psychotherapy — including childhood emotional neglect, complex trauma, dissociation, the body, attachment, implicit memory, and the long-term impact of developmental and relational trauma. While each speaker brings their own model and approach, together the programs reflect a broader understanding of how trauma affects the mind, body, relationships, and sense of self over time.
Taken together, the series offers a wider clinical view of trauma treatment — from the impact of what happened, to the impact of what was missing, to how trauma is carried in the nervous system, expressed through symptoms, and worked with in therapy. It is designed for clinicians who want not only practical insight, but a deeper understanding of the different ways trauma presents and the many perspectives needed to treat it thoughtfully.
The series currently includes six programs, with additional faculty and topics to be filmed and released in the coming months, and with new projects planned each year. Our hope is that this becomes an evolving body of work that clinicians can return to throughout their careers as they deepen their understanding of trauma and its treatment.
The Educators
This initiative is guided by leading experts whose work has helped shape the mental health field. Each brings a distinct perspective informed by extensive research, clinical expertise, and lived experience.
Ruth Cohn — Childhood Emotional Neglect and Deprivation
Ruth Cohn’s work has been particularly important in bringing attention to the long-term impact of childhood emotional neglect and deprivation — experiences that are often overlooked because they are defined not by what happened, but by what was missing. Her work explores how early absence of attunement, protection, and emotional connection can shape identity, sexuality, relationships, and self-worth across the lifespan.
Her program helps clinicians better understand neglect as a central clinical issue and offers a framework for working with clients whose deepest wounds are rooted not in a single event, but in the long-term emotional, relational, and developmental consequences of what was missing.
Ruth Cohn, MFT, is a psychotherapist, author, and pioneer in neglect-informed psychotherapy. For decades, she has specialized in working with survivors of trauma and neglect, their intimate partners, and families, and is known for bringing depth, clarity, and compassion to an area of clinical work that has too often been overlooked. She is also a sought-after speaker at international conferences, where her teaching is often met with deep resonance and standing ovations for the power and importance of her work.
Ruth Lanius — Sensory Pathways to Healing from Trauma & Dissociation
Ruth Lanius’s work has been essential in helping the field understand how trauma affects not only memory, but the whole organization of experience — including the body, emotion, time, thought, identity, and sense of self. Her research and teaching have helped clinicians better understand severe and complex trauma presentations, including dissociation, traumatic reliving, emotional shutdown, disembodiment, and the ways clients can move between overwhelm, numbness, and survival-based states.
Her program offers a neurobiological and clinically grounded framework for understanding trauma and dissociation through the brain, mind, and body. Across the training, Dr. Lanius explores how traumatic experience can disrupt emotional regulation, embodiment, attachment, and a stable sense of presence, while also introducing emerging approaches such as Deep Brain Reorienting and alpha neurofeedback as part of a broader clinical conversation. The program helps clinicians understand trauma symptoms not as pathology, but as adaptive responses to overwhelming experience — and offers a deeper framework for working with clients whose suffering may be difficult to reach through words alone.
Ruth A. Lanius, M.D., Ph.D., is a Psychiatry Professor and Harris-Woodman Chair at Western University of Canada, where she directs the Clinical Research Program for PTSD. She is internationally recognized for her research on the neurobiology of trauma, dissociation, traumatic reliving, emotional dysregulation, disembodiment, and the disrupted sense of self. Her work has helped shape contemporary understanding of complex trauma by bringing together neuroscience, clinical practice, and the lived experience of survivors.
Janina Fisher — Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma
Janina Fisher’s work has made an important contribution to the field’s understanding of trauma as something that continues to live in the present — through symptoms, implicit memory, nervous system dysregulation, and body-based responses that survivors often do not recognize as trauma-related. Her teaching has helped clinicians and survivors alike make sense of overwhelming emotions, shame, triggering, and dissociation as adaptive responses to traumatic experience rather than signs of defect or pathology.
She is the developer of Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST), a clinical model that integrates trauma treatment, parts work, and nervous system regulation, with a strong emphasis on stabilization, safety, and helping clients understand and work with trauma-related symptoms. Her program focuses on the living legacy of trauma and offers clinicians a practical and compassionate framework for supporting regulation, understanding, and integration over time.
Janina Fisher, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, author, and international teacher whose work has helped shape contemporary trauma treatment. She is widely known for translating complex ideas about trauma, implicit memory, dissociation, and nervous system dysregulation into language that is clinically useful, compassionate, and accessible for both therapists and survivors.
Kathy Steele — Assessing and Treating Traumatic Dissociation
Kathy Steele’s work has been essential in helping the field better understand traumatic dissociation and how to treat it safely and effectively. Her teaching has provided clinicians with a clear clinical framework for understanding dissociative symptoms, dissociative parts, amnesia, and the complex internal organization that develops in response to chronic trauma.
Her program offers an integrative and phase-oriented approach to the treatment of traumatic dissociation, including assessment, stabilization, working with dissociative parts, and the gradual processing of traumatic memories. It provides clinicians with concrete clinical guidelines, therapeutic structure, and practical tools for working with dissociation and complex trauma in a safe and organized way.
Kathy Steele is an internationally recognized psychotherapist, teacher, and author specializing in complex trauma and dissociation. She is co-author of The Haunted Self and Treating Trauma-Related Dissociation, and has trained therapists around the world in the treatment of dissociative disorders and complex trauma.
Pat Ogden — Introduction to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Pat Ogden’s work has played a major role in bringing the body into the center of trauma therapy. Through the development of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, she helped clinicians understand that trauma is not only remembered in words and emotions, but also in posture, movement, sensation, and the nervous system.
Her program introduces the principles of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and shows how body awareness, movement, and present-moment experience can be integrated into psychotherapy to help clients regulate, process trauma, and develop a greater sense of safety and agency. Her work provides therapists with practical ways to work with trauma that include the body as an essential part of the therapeutic process.
Pat Ogden, PhD, is the founder of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, an internationally recognized approach to trauma treatment that integrates body-based interventions with psychotherapy. She is an international teacher and author whose work has influenced trauma therapy, attachment work, and body-oriented psychotherapy around the world.
Bessel van der Kolk & Licia Sky — Trauma, Attachment, and the Body
Bessel van der Kolk’s work has been foundational in changing how the world understands trauma — particularly the role of the body, memory, and nervous system in traumatic stress. His research and clinical work helped establish that trauma is not only a psychological experience, but a physiological and relational one that continues to affect how people feel, think, and relate to others long after the original events are over.
Together with Licia Sky, this program explores trauma through the lens of the body, attachment, memory, and regulation. Their dialogue offers a deeper understanding of how trauma is carried in the body and expressed through patterns of activation, disconnection, protection, and relational adaptation, and how healing involves restoring regulation, connection, and a sense of safety in oneself and with others.
Bessel van der Kolk, MD, is a psychiatrist, researcher, and author of The Body Keeps the Score, one of the most influential books in the field of trauma. Licia Sky is a somatic practitioner and educator whose work focuses on embodied awareness, relational presence, and the role of the body in healing from trauma.
HeartMath – The Science and Practice of Heart Coherence
Rollin McCraty’s work has helped shift how we understand emotional regulation by showing that our emotional states are not only psychological, but deeply physiological. His research at the HeartMath Institute has demonstrated how the heart and brain are in constant communication, shaping perception, stress responses, and the ability to think clearly under pressure.
This program introduces the concept of heart coherence and shows how specific practices can help regulate the nervous system in real time. Through a combination of research and practical application, it offers clinicians and practitioners accessible tools for shifting emotional patterns, improving resilience, and supporting clearer, more stable responses in both personal and professional settings.
Rollin McCraty, PhD, is Director of Research at the HeartMath Institute and a leading researcher in heart–brain communication and psychophysiology. He is joined by Sarah Moor, a HeartMath® master trainer and mentor who has worked extensively in teaching and applying coherence-based practices in everyday life.
Who This Series Is For
This series is designed for professionals who work with trauma, attachment, and long-term psychological development, including:
While each program offers practical clinical insight, the series as a whole is designed for clinicians who are looking not only for techniques, but for a deeper understanding of how trauma shapes development, relationships, and the therapeutic process over time.
What You Will Gain From This Series
This series is designed to deepen not only what clinicians know about trauma, but how they understand what they are seeing in the therapy room. Across these programs, you will gain:
- A richer understanding of how trauma shapes the brain, body, nervous system, relationships, identity, and sense of self
- A clearer clinical framework for understanding dissociation, fragmentation, survival responses, emotional shutdown, traumatic reliving, and the long-term effects of developmental trauma
- A deeper appreciation for the impact of both what happened and what was missing — including neglect, attachment disruption, relational trauma, and failures of attunement
- Practical ways to think about stabilization, regulation, pacing, embodiment, and long-term trauma treatment
- A more nuanced understanding of how trauma is carried in the body and expressed through symptoms, protective responses, relational patterns, and states of disconnection or overwhelm
- Exposure to multiple field-shaping perspectives, including body-based, attachment-informed, neurobiological, dissociation-informed, and relational approaches to trauma treatment
- The opportunity to learn directly from clinicians whose work has helped define and expand the field of trauma therapy
This series is not a single model, method, or protocol. It is an invitation to study trauma through multiple lenses, to deepen clinical thinking, and to learn from teachers whose work continues to shape how therapists understand suffering, survival, and the possibility of repair.
Program Format
Pre-recorded, in-depth video programs
Filmed in an intimate, in-studio format
Lifetime access to all purchased programs
Downloadable materials included with each program
Available in multiple languages (depending on program)
Certificate of participation available for each program
How to Participate
Purchasing Individual Courses
Each course in the series is available for individual purchase. To register for a specific program, click the program link above for the teacher or topic you are interested in. You will be taken to that course page, where you can review the full program description, module details, format, and registration information before completing your purchase. Once you purchase a course, you will receive access instructions and will be able to watch the program at your own pace. Each program is pre-recorded and designed to be returned to over time as a continuing resource for clinical learning and reflection.
Purchasing for groups or organizations
If you are interested in purchasing all six programs or arranging group access for your organization, training institute, clinical team, or community, please email [email protected] to discuss available options.
Distribution or licensing partners
We are also interested in collaborating with international partners who would like to help bring this content to clinicians in additional languages and regions. If your organization, training institute, publisher, or professional association is interested in licensing this series — or exploring the possibility of translating and offering these programs in a language that is not yet available — we would be happy to discuss potential partnership opportunities. Our hope is that this body of work can continue to reach therapists and helping professionals around the world, while preserving the depth, integrity, and clinical wisdom of each teacher’s work. For licensing and international partnership inquiries, please contact [email protected]
Grounded in Purpose
We believe meaningful education can do more than inform. It can widen perspective, deepen practice, and help important ideas reach the people and communities who need them. That belief guides our work with organizations as we help shape educational offerings with depth, intention, and relevance.
This project was built with deep care and collaboration, and we’re grateful to the clinicians, educators, and contributors who helped bring it to life.