Trauma has a significant impact on the body. It sensitizes the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, which is the area of the brain responsible for our body’s central stress response system. The ...

Google calls trauma a “deeply distressing or disturbing event.” We are surrounded by distress that disturbs. Conflicts rage, injustice continues, violence keeps on. Around the world and close to home, ...

Note: This article discusses serious topics pertaining to trauma. Although some psychological wounds heal into scars on their own, others require careful tending. Each individual’s needs and ...

Trauma-informed care is in the details. It assumes people are people. And people experience trauma. Trauma informed care or TIC assumes that every person may have a history of trauma, so steps are ...

North Star Child Advocacy Center announced the launch of in-house trauma-focused therapy services beginning July 1.