TRAUMA
RESOURCES
On this page you will find a list of trauma-informed resources for further exploration. If you are in crisis or you think you may have an emergency, call your doctor or 911 immediately. If you’re having suicidal thoughts visit this website to talk to a skilled, trained counselor at a crisis center in your area at any time.
BOOKS
- Allan Abbass and Howard Schubiner: Hidden from View: A Clinician’s Guide to Psychophysiologic Disorders
- Hannah Beach & Tamara Neufeld Strijack, Reclaiming Our Students: Why Children Are More Anxious, Aggressive, and Shut Down Than Ever—And What We Can Do About It
- Julie Brown Yau: The Body Awareness Workbook for Trauma
- Susan Campbell: From Triggered to Tranquil: How Self-Compassion and Mindful Presence Can Transform Relationship Conflicts and Heal Childhood Wounds
- David D. Clarke: They Can’t Find Anything Wrong!: 7 Keys to Understanding, Treating, and Healing Stress Illness
- Fania Davis: The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice
- Norman Doidge: The Brain’s Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity
- Mark Epstein: The Trauma of Everyday Life
- Tirzah Firestone: Wounds Into Wisdom: Healing Intergenerational Jewish Trauma
- Ruby Gibson: My Body, My Earth: The Practice of Somatic Archaeology
- Alan Gordon and Alon Ziv: The Way Out: A Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven Approach to Healing Chronic Pain
- David Hanscom: Back in Control: A Surgeon’s Roadmap Out of Chronic Pain
- Nadine Burke Harris: The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
- David R. Hawkins: Healing and Recovery
- Diane Poole Heller: The Power of Attachment
- Laurence Heller and Aline Lapierre: Healing Developmental Trauma
- Thomas Hübl: Healing Collective Trauma
- Arnold Hutschnecker: The Will To Live
- Jewel: Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story
- Peter Levine: In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness
- Peter Levine: Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of the Body
- Peter Levine: Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
- Gabor Maté: When The Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress (U.S. subtitle: Exploring the Stress/Disease Connection)
- Gabor Maté: In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction
- Gabor Maté: Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder (U.S. title: Scattered: How ADD Originates and What You Can Do About It)
- Rupa Marya and Raj Patel: Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
- Resmaa Menakem: My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
- Anita Morjani: Dying to Be Me
- Pat Ogden and Janina Fisher: Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment
- Georgie Oldfield: Chronic Pain: Your Key to Recovery
- Steven Ray Ozanich: The Great Pain Deception: Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse
- Steven Ray Ozanich: Dr. John Sarno’s Top 10 Healing Discoveries
- Steven Ray Ozanich: Back Pain Permanent Healing: Understanding the Myths, Lies, and Confusion
- Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey: What Happened to You?
- Bruce D. Perry: Brief: Reflections on Childhood, Trauma and Society
- Bruce D. Perry: Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential—and Endangered
- Betsy Polatin: The Actor’s Secret
- Betsy Polatin: Humanual: An Epic Journey to your Expanded Self
- Stephen Porges: The Polyvagal Theory (for professionals)
- Jeffrey Rediger: Cured: Strengthen Your Immune System and Heal Your Life
- David Schechter: Think Away Your Pain: Your Brain is the Solution to Your Pain
- Richard C. Schwartz: Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Discovering Your True Self Through Internal Family Systems Therapy
- Richard C. Schwartz: No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
- Daniel Siegel: The Developing Mind
- John Sarno: The Mindbody Prescription: Healing The Body, Healing the Pain
- John E. Sarno: Healing Back Pain: The Mind Body Connection
- John E. Sarno: The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders
- Howard Schubiner: Unlearn Your Pain
- Howard Schubiner: Unlearn Your Anxiety & Depression
- Jesse Thistle: From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way
- Bessel van der Kolk: The Body Keeps the Score
- Patricia June Vickers: Singing to the Darkness
- Mark Wolynn: It Didn’t Start With You
VIDEOS / DOCUMENTARIES / PODCASTS
- Adverse Childhood Experience short video explaining toxic stress (by KPJR Films)
- ACE Study (by Academy on Violence and Abuse)
- Breakthrough: The Trauma Chaser
- Cormac Russell on Asset Based Community Development (Podcast)
- CRACKED UP
- Former Jail Warden Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia | We Are Witnesses
- Gabor Mate & Adyashanti: Emotional and Spiritual Maturity
- Hannah Beach, trauma work with students using movement and stories, Each of Us Has a Story
- Higher Practice (Podcast)
- How childhood trauma effects health across a lifetime (TED talk with Nadine Burke Harris)
- Is Your Story Making You Sick?
- Oprah reports on Childhood Trauma’s long term effects
- Paper Tigers: One High School’s Unlikely Success Story
- PBS Newshour: Childhood Trauma
- Professor Julianne Holt Lunstad on the the amazing impact of social relationships on health and longevity (Podcast)
- Professor Steve Cole on human social genomics amongst many others with fantastic insight into the power of community (Podcast)
- Reasons I Drink (Alanis Morrissette)
- Reclaiming Our Students, 12-session online educational series for educators
- Resilience: The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope
- Step Inside the Circle
- Surgical Empathy
- Tashi and The Monk (Film)
- This Might Hurt (Film)
- Trauma and The Nervous System: A Polyvagal Perspective
Gabor Maté Talks, Interviews & more
- The Causal pain at the Root of Addiction
- Conversation About Addiction with Gabor Maté and Arold Langeveld
- Dr. Gabor Mate (Official Website)
- Emotional and Spiritual Maturity: Gabor Mate and Adyashanti
- Gently Dusting Off The Mind
- Interview with Joe Polish
- A Neurosurgeon Talks of Vulnerability: Gabor Maté and James Doty
- On addiction
- On mind/body unity in health/illness
- The Psychology of Spiritual Seeking
- Russell Brand Interview
- Spiritual seeking, Addiction and the Search for Truth
- Tim Ferris interview
- Understanding Trauma: A Conversation with Dr. Gabor Maté
- When The Body Says No: Mind/Body Unity and the Stress- Disease Connection
- Working with Collective Trauma: Gabor Maté & Thomas Hübl
THERAPISTS
- Compassionate Inquiry Practitioners
- Emotion-Focused Family Therapy Practitioners
- Generative Somatics Practitioners
- National Queer & Trans Therapists of Color Network
- Psychedelic Directory
- Somatic Experiencing Practitioners
- Therapists for Ukraine (from It's Complicated)
Please note: this list of mental health professionals is provided as a courtesy and is for informational purposes only. It does not constitute an endorsement or approval by SAND, as SAND is not affiliated with these providers and does not assume responsibility for their services. Please contact these mental health professionals directly should you have any questions. Thank you!
TRAUMA HEALING MODALITIES
- Bessel van der Kolk
- Brainspotting
- Compassionate Inquiry
- Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR)
- Exploring the Sacred Line
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- EMDR International Association
- Family Constellation Work
- Francis Weller
- Freedom Lodge
- Internal Family Systems Therapy
- The International Focusing Institute
- NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM)
- Rewind Technique for PTSD and Phobias (HGI)
- Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
- Somatic Experiencing
TRAUMA SUMMITS/ONLINE CLASSES
ORGANIZATIONS
- ACEs Connection
- Action Trauma
- Compassionate Prison Project
- Chrysalis Society
- Collectively Rooted
- Compassionate Communities UK
- Downtown Streets Team
- The IDEA Centre, an initiative of the Neufeld Institute
- The International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research, and Service (ICEERS)
- Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)
- The National Alliance on Mental Illness
- The National Child Trauma Stress Network
- The National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine
- Nurture Development
- Project Healthy Minds
- The Temple of the Way of Light
- Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga
- Trauma Research Foundation
UKRAINE
OTHER
- 7 Surprising Reasons You Should See a Trauma-Informed Counselor (Article)
- The Aspen Institute: Weave the Social Fabric
- Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC’s) Preventing ACEs Handbook
- Music for Healing and Inspiration
- Take the ACE (Adverse Childhood Experience) Quiz
- Tripsitters Psychedelic Directory
- What’s Your Resilience Score?
- What ACEs/PCEs do you have?
- Wisdom of Trauma Community Group (Note this group is NOT managed by SAND)