Certified Clinical Trauma Professional Training – Free Event with Kate Pruitt
Complex trauma work rarely follows a simple sequence. A client may be dysregulated, dissociative, avoidant, plateaued, or functioning well on paper while still struggling to rebuild a durable sense of safety, agency, and identity.
Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) Training: Applied Neuroscience for Trauma Recovery and Posttraumatic Growth brings Dr. Kate Truitt’s brain-based approach into the clinical decisions that shape trauma treatment: assessing readiness, choosing focused targets, stabilizing activation, processing traumatic material, and supporting reintegration.
The training connects trauma neuroscience with practical case formulation so clinicians can better understand what the nervous system may be communicating across cognition, emotion, autonomic response, somatic experience, and interoception.
Rather than treating stabilization, processing, and growth as isolated techniques, the program presents them as parts of a phase-based clinical map designed to support thoughtful pacing, clearer treatment targets, and responsible trauma-informed care.
Why Attend “Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) Training”
When a trauma case stalls, the difficult question is often not whether you have enough techniques. It is how to decide what the client is ready for, what deserves attention first, and when the treatment plan needs to return to regulation rather than move further into processing.
Dr. Kate Truitt presents a phase-based framework that connects safety, stabilization, processing, and reintegration. The goal is to help clinicians organize assessment findings, trauma history, comorbidities, nervous-system cues, and current functioning into more deliberate treatment decisions.
The training also explores structured dual-attention desensitization, safe closure, resilience-building, identity reconstruction, and posttraumatic growth so that treatment planning can extend beyond symptom reduction toward sustainable integration.
Who Should Attend
This training is designed for clinicians who want a more structured way to think through complex trauma presentations, especially when readiness for deeper processing is uncertain or progress has plateaued.
It is particularly relevant for professionals who want to connect neuroscience, assessment, case formulation, regulation, trauma processing, and reintegration within one coherent clinical framework.
- Clinicians working with trauma and chronic stress presentations
- Professionals supporting clients with dissociation or fluctuating regulation
- Therapists who want clearer criteria for stabilization and processing decisions
- Clinicians seeking more focused ways to identify trauma-treatment targets
- Professionals interested in phase-based trauma treatment planning
- Clinicians who want practical approaches to safe session closure and containment
- Therapists exploring resilience, agency, identity repair, and posttraumatic growth
- Professionals interested in the pathway toward CCTP eligibility
What You’ll Learn
The training begins with the neurobiology of traumatic stress and recovery, including how trauma may shape cognition, emotion, autonomic response, somatic experience, interoception, threat learning, and identity.
From there, Dr. Truitt connects assessment and diagnosis with treatment sequencing, including developmental and attachment-related trauma, comorbidities, dissociation risk, physiological and narrative cues, and the role of commonly used trauma assessment tools.
The later material focuses on structured processing, safe regulation, reintegration, and resilience-building so clinicians can consider how each phase of care relates to the client’s current capacity and treatment goals.
- How trauma and chronic stress can affect brain and nervous-system functioning
- How to assess readiness using physiological, narrative, and functional cues
- How phase-based care organizes safety, stabilization, processing, and reintegration
- How to identify focused clinical targets when a trauma history feels diffuse
- How threat learning, memory systems, triggers, avoidance, and conditioned reactivity can maintain distress
- How structured dual-attention desensitization is used with attention to safety and control
- How to respond to spikes in activation, plateaued ratings, or dissociative drift
- How resilience-building strategies can support agency and identity reconstruction
- How between-session structure can balance stabilization with incremental resilience practice
Clinical Training Outline
The program follows a progressive clinical sequence, beginning with traumatic-stress neurobiology and assessment before moving into treatment planning, processing, reintegration, and ongoing integration.
Each topic is designed to connect underlying neuroscience with the decisions clinicians make when evaluating readiness, selecting targets, pacing interventions, and supporting client safety.
The outline also includes ethical considerations, cultural humility, risks and limitations, consultation or referral considerations, and implementation within phase-based trauma care.
Foundations, Assessment & Treatment Planning
- The Neurobiology of Traumatic Stress Development & RecoveryTrauma, chronic stress, interoception, autonomic response, somatic experience, cognition, emotion, and identity
- Diagnostic & Assessment FoundationsTrauma-related disorders, developmental and attachment trauma, assessment tools, dissociation, and comorbidities
- Phase-Based Treatment Planning & Evidence-Informed ModalitiesSafety, stabilization, processing, reintegration, and the role of evidence-informed approaches
- Setting the Stage for Trauma-Informed and Client-Centered CareReadiness assessment, interoceptive awareness, regulation, cognitive distraction, safety scripts, and trackers
Processing, Reintegration & Ongoing Integration
- Trauma Encoding, Threat Learning, and MaintenanceMemory systems, triggers, avoidance, conditioned reactivity, dissociation risk, and structured history collection
- Memory Reconsolidation — Structured Desensitization with Dual-AttentionTarget selection, mindful touch, working-memory engagement, activation management, and safe closure
- Reintegration and Posttraumatic GrowthResilience, adaptive resource targets, agency, identity reconstruction, and neuroplastic learning
- Creating Structured Settings for Ongoing IntegrationBetween-session practice, titration, ethical considerations, cultural humility, limitations, and implementation planning
About Kate Truitt, PhD
Kate Truitt, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, applied neuroscientist, author, and educator whose work focuses on trauma, neuroplasticity, nervous-system recovery, resilience, and the practical translation of brain science into clinical care.
She is the founder of the Truitt Institute and a clinical leader of Dr. Kate Truitt & Associates in Pasadena, California. Her professional work also includes advisory and educational contributions with organizations including the Goldie Hawn Foundation’s MindUP program, the Kevin Love Fund, and Girl Scouts of America.
Dr. Truitt is the author of Keep Breathing: A Psychologist’s Intimate Journey Through Loss, Trauma, and Rediscovering Life and Healing in Your Hands: Self-Havening Exercises to Harness Neuroplasticity, Heal Traumatic Stress, and Build Resilience. Her teaching emphasizes clinically useful ways to connect neuroscience with trauma-informed assessment, regulation, processing, and reintegration.
Resources and CCTP Pathway
Clinical Learning Resources
- Training content connecting neuroscience with practical clinical decisions
- Frameworks for assessment, stabilization, processing, and reintegration
- Session slides and handouts made available through the training
Optional Professional Upgrade
- Continuing education credit is available through an optional paid upgrade
- CCTP certification eligibility is included with the qualifying upgrade
- Dr. Kate Truitt’s book Keep Breathing is included with the qualifying upgrade
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Join Kate Truitt, PhD, for a practical, neuroscience-informed clinical framework connecting assessment, stabilization, processing, reintegration, resilience, and posttraumatic growth.
- Nov 03 - 04 2026
- 6:00 am - 2:00 pm
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- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: Nov 03 - 04 2026
- Time: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
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