Trauma-Informed Life Coaching
Trauma-Informed Life Coaching at the Center for Trauma Recovery is designed for those who are ready to focus on growth, integration, and moving forward. Coaching supports clients in building clarity, confidence, and direction after trauma, life transitions, or periods of significant change.
Unlike therapy, life coaching does not diagnose, treat, or process trauma. Instead, it offers a forward-focused, trauma-informed space to strengthen self-trust, reclaim agency, and create meaning and purpose in the next chapter of life.
What Trauma-Informed Life Coaching Can Offer:
Trauma-Informed Life Coaching supports personal growth and empowerment by helping people integrate what they’ve learned through healing, regulate their nervous systems, and move toward future goals with intention, clarity, and choice.
Trauma-informed life coaching is a growth-oriented, forward-focused approach that supports women in building resilience, self-awareness, and direction while remaining sensitive to the impact of trauma.
FAQ
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Trauma therapy focuses on healing past wounds and reducing symptoms such as PTSD, anxiety, or emotional dysregulation, and is provided by licensed mental health professionals. Life coaching focuses on creating the future, strengthening confidence, boundaries, and purpose, and is provided by certified coaches.
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No. Life coaching is not therapy and does not replace mental health treatment. Coaches do not diagnose, treat, or process trauma.
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Life coaching is often helpful for women who have already done significant healing work, whose trauma is not actively destabilizing daily functioning, or who are ready to focus on growth, identity, relationships, career transitions, or life direction.
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Coaching may include nervous system regulation tools such as grounding, breathwork, and mindfulness, along with future visioning, goal setting, strengths-based practices, accountability, and mindset shifts.
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Trauma-informed coaches recognize signs of unresolved or destabilizing trauma and refer clients to therapy when deeper clinical support is needed.
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A helpful way to think about it is: therapy helps heal the wound, while coaching helps build strength and purpose after healing. An intake conversation can help determine which is the best fit.
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Life coaching is offered through Woven Waters Coaching, a trauma-informed coaching practice led by Jackie. Woven Waters honors each stage of the healing journey and meets women where they are.
Getting Started on Trauma Recovery
If you call us, we move quickly. In many cases, women are able to begin care within just a few days.