Trauma Specialists Training Institute
Free Field Guide for Therapists

How to Structure a Trauma-Informed Session

Opening with consent. Working in the middle. Closing so your client leaves regulated rather than raw. The session has an architecture and most of us were never taught it.

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"Most of us pieced this together over years of practice, mostly by noticing what didn't work."

  • Three opening scripts for handing the client back agency in the first five minutes
  • A decision rule for the middle so you know when to deepen and when to stabilize
  • Containment vs. state shifting for the close, with guidance on which to use when
  • An annotated session walkthrough showing the full architecture in three real moments
Jamie Sedgwick

Jamie Sedgwick, LCPC, NCC

Training Director, TSTI

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