Our work equips professionals with groundbreaking skills and strategies that reshape how we demonstrate the intersection of mental health and faith.
In addition to the natural overlap between mental health themes and Christian principles, Trauma-Informed Spiritual Intervention® addresses critical considerations:
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Power dynamics inherent in discussions of faith and religion
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The influence of doctrine and spiritual beliefs on how individuals process information
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The need for an objective framework that helps professionals navigate their personal faith while maintaining professional boundaries and ethical practice
100+ learners and researchers since 2020
Spiritual care training and doctrinal harm sensitivity
Cultivating the counseling environment to model professional boundaries, cultural awareness and cross-cultural education related to various spiritual and religious beliefs.
Over 300 individual served in trauma-informed spiritual care since 2019
Why does it matter?
TSI supports individuals and practitioners in exploring the intersection of faith and mental health, leveraging faith as a protective factor while addressing maladaptive thinking shaped by doctrinal influence.
Currently, few structured frameworks fully account for both the cultural relevance of spirituality or the prevalence and continued potential for religious harm within integrative care. TSI fills this gap by helping service providers establish and maintain safety when a client brings up a spiritual or religious dimension to treatment, fostering conceptual clarity and increasing sensitivity to doctrine and power dynamics.
Through its approach, TSI centers choice, mutuality, and collaboration in addressing harmful or maladaptive beliefs formed in spiritually unsafe environments, allowing individuals to reclaim and access the full resilience-building potential of faith.
Research Vision & Objectives
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Validate and refine the TSI framework
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Pilot psychoeducational and therapeutic interventions
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Measure outcomes related to trauma, hope, spiritual well-being, and reconciliation
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Scale development on TSI constructs
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Publish peer-reviewed conceptual and empirical papers
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Build culturally responsive and spiritually sensitive interventions
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Train clinicians, ministries, and wellness organizations
Purpose
The purpose of Trauma-Informed Spiritual Intervention® is to promote holistic health across service industries by providing a structured framework for establishing safety when navigating doctrine, religious differences, and trauma sustained in spiritually unsafe environments.
This approach supports individuals who want to explore the intersection of faith, lived experience, and mental health. It recognizes that spiritual care, when not grounded in trauma-informed, multi-level practices, can unintentionally reinforce harmful power dynamics. These dynamics often shape belief systems through judgment, coercion, or force rather than through safety, consent, and understanding.
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What is the Intervention?
The intervention is a reflective process that fosters reconciliation within the belief system. It supports individuals in examining beliefs shaped by formative experiences and aligning them with their current faith perspectives in ways that are coherent, consistent, and self-directed.
This process brings awareness to spiritual bypassing within thought patterns and faith practices by intentionally slowing down belief formation. Through inquiry and guided reflection, individuals are encouraged to examine unchallenged assumptions influenced by doctrine and lived experience.
The goal is to cultivate autonomous reflection and curiosity, enabling individuals to develop coherence across all aspects of their belief system and engage in faith-integrated problem solving with greater clarity, safety, and personal agency.
Executive Leadership
Trauma-Informed Spiritual Intervention® course is for professionals of all backgrounds, including social workers, psychologists, counselors, clergy and professionals in medical care who desire to:
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Learn how to create spiritually safe and welcoming spaces through inquiry-based direction
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Understand the role and risk of doctrine in faith-integrated practices
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Support clients through faith construction and deconstruction where religious beliefs may be harmful
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Become confident with supporting clients whose physical and mental needs intersect with spiritual beliefs
Asynchronous Distance Learning
Interactive Live
Practicum
Discussions and Practical Application
The course explores the relationship between doctrine, natural and spiritual power, and the human belief system. It examines how early life experiences, later life development, trauma, religious teachings, and both spiritual and religious trauma influence how individuals understand themselves, their faith, and their relationship to power.
Participants are guided through a framework that brings awareness to how beliefs are formed, reinforced, and challenged over time—especially within religious and spiritual contexts.
Delivered through a combination of live and pre-recorded lectures, live practicum sessions, role-playing exercises, and reflective assignments. Participants will have access to additional resources, including the Fundamentals of Trauma-Informed Spiritual Intervention® textbook.
By the end of this course, participants will be equipped with the knowledge and skills needed to integrate trauma-informed care with spiritual sensitivity, fostering healing and resilience in those they serve.
Support your learning in Trauma-Informed Spiritual Intervention training and certification program with literature on:
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All 5 Modules offered within the Trauma-Informed Spiritual Intervention course
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Framework Diagrams + Scriptural References
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Content Internalization Worksheets and Note-catchers
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SAMHSA’s Standard of Trauma-Informed Care
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Trauma-Informed Spiritual Intervention™ Safe and Sound Workbook Incl.
Establishing the conceptual basis for faith-integrated care
Textbook Highlights:
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Creating Spiritually Safe Spaces: Learn how to establish environments that prioritize spiritual safety through inquiry-based direction.
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Principles of Spiritual Engagement and Warfare: Understand fundamental principles for effective spiritual engagement and spiritual warfare.
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Practical Assessment and Response Strategies: Acquire practical strategies for assessing and addressing spiritual needs with precision and care.
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Supporting Faith Construction and Deconstruction: Gain expertise in aiding clients through the construction of faith and the deconstruction of harmful religious beliefs.
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Addressing Intersecting Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Needs: Develop confidence in supporting clients whose physical and mental needs intersect with spiritual concerns.