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ICONIC Academy
Professional Education
Course · 6 learning hours

Trauma-Informed Practice Foundations

What trauma-informed actually requires in practice, past the phrase on a website.

The phrase appears on a great many practitioner websites. It describes a great deal less practice than it claims to.

The distinction this course draws

Trauma-informed practice is not trauma treatment. It is a way of structuring sessions, consent, pacing, and touch so that a person carrying difficult history is not harmed by your work and retains control throughout. Treating trauma is a licensed mental-health activity and stays firmly outside the scope of this course.

What you will leave with

Concrete session-structure changes, language for offering and re-offering consent, a plan for what you do when something surfaces mid-session, and a referral list you have actually built.

How the course runs

Self-paced across eight modules. Certificate of completion states hours and date and carries a verification link.

What the course covers
  1. What the term means and what it has come to mean
  2. Consent, pacing, and the right to stop
  3. Touch, proximity, and the practitioner body
  4. Recognizing activation in a session
  5. What to do when something surfaces
  6. The boundary between support and therapy
  7. Referral to mental health care
  8. Practitioner sustainability
Who this is for. Practitioners whose work involves touch, breath, close attention, or personal history. This course is continuing education. It does not qualify anyone to begin practice and is not training for entry into an occupation.
Enrollment

$295

Enrollment opens with the founding cohort. Join the list and we will write to you once, when this course opens. No other email.

ICONIC Academy awards certificates of completion for continuing professional education. It is not a degree-granting institution and does not offer degrees of any kind. Certificates are not licenses, do not confer any scope of practice, and are not a qualification to begin practice. Courses are intended for practitioners already working in their field.