This is often the missing piece when people are surviving, teaching or understanding
domestic abuse and coercive control.
This training is for every single professional who works in the space of domestic abuse and coercive control, and for every single survivor that feels let down and wants to understand more deeply their experience through a psychological and
psychological and physiological lens.
50%
off
A Globally Recognised CPD/CE Accredited Practitioner Training for Those Ready to Lead Change in Domestic Abuse & Coercive Control
Why This Training Matters Now More Than Ever
Domestic abuse is a global public health crisis.
Survivors are still misunderstood by courts, police, and even professionals trained to support them.
Too often, services focus only on psychology with behaviour, thoughts, words. Survivors are labelled “uncooperative”, “difficult”, or “not traumatised” if they don’t present in the expected way.
But trauma lives in the body.
And unless we understand the physiology of abuse, we risk misinterpreting survivors, retraumatising them and denying them justice.
This programme brings in:
Most training stops at psychology.
So you can finally understand what’s really happening beneath the surface.
Survivors in freeze may appear flat, calm, or robotic as their body is in dorsal vagal collapse, not “lying” or “over it.”
Survivors in fight/flight may appear chaotic, angry, or inconsistent, their sympathetic system is firing, not their credibility.
Survivors in a false functional (functional freeze) may look outwardly “fine” but internally be dissociated and collapsed.
nervous system science
trauma physiology
embodied practice
Yet despite rising awareness, survivors are still misunderstood, misdiagnosed, and retraumatised by the very systems meant to protect them.
The Accredited Trauma Informed Domestic Abuse & Coercive Control Practitioner Programme will equip you with the tools, knowledge and trauma informed frameworks to support survivors ethically, compassionately and effectively while also educating communities, organisations and systems to do better.
Coercive control often goes unseen, even as it destroys lives.
This is where you come in.
It’s a complete practitioner pathway that blends psychology, physiology and international best practice with lived experience and trauma informed integration.
Courts mistake freeze states for lies.
Practitioners ask
“why doesn’t she just leave?”
Trauma bonds are labelled weakness
This isn’t just another training.
What Makes This Training Different?
Nervous System Lens
Learn the Traffic Lights of Tolerance™ model to recognise hyperarousal (fight/flight), hypoarousal (freeze), and false green functional states.
Survivor-Centred Practice
Learn to regulate yourself,
co-regulate with survivors and create trauma informed spaces where disclosure and healing can finally happen.
Misinterpretation Awareness
Recognise why police, courts, and practitioners so often get it wrong and how to reframe survivor behaviour as survival.
Trauma Bonds Explained by Physiology
See why survivors return to abusers, not from weakness, but because of survival conditioning, intermittent reinforcement and neurobiology.
Psychology + Physiology Together
Understand not only the tactics of abuse but the nervous system adaptations that keep survivors trapped.
This is an 8-Module CPD/CE Accredited Certification, designed to take you from awareness to confident, safe and trauma informed practice.
What You’ll Learn Inside the Programme
Module 1: What Domestic Abuse Really Is
Go beyond the myth that abuse is “just physical violence.” In this module, you’ll explore the full spectrum of domestic abuse — emotional, financial, sexual, technological, cultural, and post-separation. You’ll learn how the Power & Control Wheel and the Cycle of Abuse explain why survivors stay, and why abuse is best understood as a violation of human rights, not just a private issue.
Module 2: The Dynamics of Power, Control & Physiology
Here we focus on how abuse impacts the nervous system as well as the mind. You’ll learn the Traffic Lights of Tolerance model and how survivors shift between fight/flight, freeze, and functional freeze. This module helps you recognise why some survivors look “too calm” while others seem “too angry,” and why both are normal survival states.
Module 3: Barriers to Leaving & Trauma Bonds
In this module, we address one of the most misunderstood questions: “Why doesn’t she just leave?” You’ll learn how trauma bonds form through cycles of abuse and intermittent kindness, how physiology reinforces attachment to an abuser, and how fear, finances, children, and shame create barriers that go far beyond “choice.”
Module 4: Coercive Control & The Hidden Health Toll
Abuse isn’t always visible. This module shows how coercive control — rules, monitoring, isolation, micro-regulation — traps survivors and erodes health. You’ll discover the link between long-term abuse and chronic illnesses such as autoimmune conditions, migraines, and chronic fatigue, and learn how to recognise hidden somatic markers of abuse.
Module 5: The Global & Legal Landscape
Domestic abuse is a worldwide crisis. This module gives you a grounding in international definitions and frameworks, including the Istanbul Convention, the UN Declaration, and the UK Domestic Abuse Act 2021. You’ll learn how different countries recognise coercive control and what this means for survivor protection.
Module 6: Responding Through a Trauma Informed Lens
Awareness isn’t enough — how we respond matters most. In this module, you’ll learn the principles of trauma informed practice and how to apply them in real-world settings. You’ll practise co-regulation, safe communication, and how to adapt your approach based on survivor physiology so that disclosures feel safe rather than retraumatising.
Module 7: The Role of the Practitioner
Survivors have often experienced deep betrayal of trust. This module explores your role as a practitioner — boundaries, ethics, cultural humility, and nervous system regulation. You’ll learn how to avoid rescuer dynamics, prevent vicarious trauma, and model safety through your own physiology and presence.
Module 8: Integration & Survivor-Centred Practice
The final module brings everything together. You’ll integrate psychology and physiology to create safe, ethical, survivor-centred practice. You’ll learn how to hold disclosures, reduce shame, and empower survivors with dignity and choice. Through reflective exercises and case studies, you’ll leave with confidence and clarity in applying your skills.
6 Case Studies to bring theory into real-world application.
Why This Training Is Different
Most domestic abuse trainings focus on psychology alone — thoughts, behaviours, emotions.
This isn’t just another domestic abuse training.
It’s a complete practitioner pathway that integrates psychology and physiology giving you the skills most professionals and services are missing.
This programme integrates both
psychology and physiology
So you understand not only what survivors think and feel, but also what their body is doing to keep them safe.
Survivor behaviour judged through a psychological lens (“why doesn’t she just leave?”)
Freeze response often ignored or misunderstood
Survivors expected to be “consistent” and “emotional”
Most Trainings Teach…
Trauma bonding seen as weakness
Coercive control treated as hidden psychology
Practitioner role = advice, signposting
Abuse = multi-layered
(emotional, financial, technological, cultural, post-separation)
Survivor behaviour explained through nervous system states (fight, flight, freeze, functional freeze)
Freeze = dorsal vagal survival state, not “lying” or “fine”
Survivors can appear flat, angry, chaotic, or calm — all are valid survival responses
This Training Teaches...
Trauma bonds explained by physiology + intermittent reinforcement
Coercive control reframed as a public health issue with long-term physiological health impacts
Practitioner role = trauma informed, nervous-system aware, survivor-centred
Abuse =
physical violence, sometimes emotional
By The End of This Certification, You’ll Walk Away With:
Trauma informed communication and regulation skills that restore agency and dignity
A CPD/CE Accredited Practitioner Certification recognised internationally
The ability to recognise nervous system states and avoid common misinterpretations in police, court, and practitioner settings
A deep understanding of domestic abuse, coercive control, and trauma bonds
The knowledge to support survivors ethically, with cultural humility and integrity
What Does CPD/CE Accreditation Mean?
Globally CPD/CE Accredited
Accredited CPD/CE training means that the learning activity has reached the required Continuing Professional Development standards and benchmarks.
The learning value has been scrutinised to ensure industry-wide integrity and quality. This is a globally recognised certification.
This certification is for:
Who Is This Programme For?
No prior experience is required.
You will be guided step by step with lifetime access to content and full support.
This programme is not only for professionals who work in this area, it is also for those who've experienced domestic abuse and coercive control and want to deepen their knowledge to help understand the experience that they have had.
Coaches, therapists, and practitioners specialising in trauma informed work
Advocates, support workers, safeguarding professionals
Police, legal professionals, educators, healthcare staff
Anyone committed to working ethically and effectively with survivors of abuse
Any victims or survivors who would just like to learn and get educated about their experience
Why Train With Me?
Your Learning Journey
This programme isn’t abstract. It’s grounded in real stories, real systems and real change.
I’ve developed this certification to ensure no survivor is left misunderstood, silenced or retraumatised by the people and services meant to help them.
Duration:
8 weeks with lifetime access
2
2
Support:
Ongoing Q&A sessions, community support, and personal tutor guidance
Assessment:
Module assignments + 6 case studies
3
4
Format:
Weekly modules Drip Fed
Format:
Weekly modules Drip Fed
1
What's The Investment?
AN EXCLUSIVE ENROLLMENT OFFER
50% OFF
One Time Payment
3 Monthly Payments
Monthly payment plan — NOT a subscription
Join Now — 3 Payments
6 Monthly Payments
Join Now — 6 Payments
⭐ MOST POPULAR
£ Pound Sterling
Best value — pay in full
JOIN NOW - PAY IN FULL
£997
£497
£354
£177
£174
£87
Monthly payment plan — NOT a subscription
One Time Payment
3 Monthly Payments
Monthly payment plan — NOT a subscription
Join Now — 3 Payments
6 Monthly Payments
Join Now — 6 Payments
⭐ MOST POPULAR
$ US DOLLAR
Best value — pay in full
JOIN NOW - PAY IN FULL
$1297
$697
$514
$257
$234
$117
Monthly payment plan — NOT a subscription
Your Teacher
Hello, I’m Caroline Strawson, a multi-award winning certified Trauma Informed Therapist & Coach and founder of the School of Healing and Growth, The Mental Wellbeing Company and Tidal.
I may be all that, but I am, first and foremost, human. Just like you.
In 2010, I experienced a series of life changing traumatic events. My mother, who was my rock, died very suddenly, and my husband walked out on me and our two children.
I didn’t even realise was I was experiencing was domestic abuse, coercive control and financial abuse. I was left with over £70,000 ($85,000) worth of debt and we were made homeless in 2013. I was at rock bottom, a shell of myself.
Eventually, I was diagnosed with complex PTSD, and realised that I was suffering from depression, anxiety, panic attacks, and self harm. All the while thinking “How could an intelligent woman like myself, with a medical background, find herself in this situation!?!”
I felt stupid, alone, isolated, and in a very dark place. No one seemed to understand what I was going through, and the more I seemed to talk about the abuse I suffered, the more I felt misunderstood. This just perpetuated my feelings of not feeling worthy or good enough.
The truth is, I needed someone who understood my trauma, but that person didn’t exist.
My personal journey with abuse, trauma and healing, paired with my background in neuroscience and professional coaching experience and therapy, inspired me to take this path to educate people like you so that you can understand how your experiences have impacted you and how you can heal.
I've been there.
I've seen it.
Done it.
Lived it
YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
founder of the School of Healing and Growth,
The Mental Wellbeing Company and Tidal
multi-award winning certified Trauma Informed Therapist & Coach
Caroline Strawson
Why Should You Listen To Me?
Qualifications & Certifications
BSc (Hons)
PGCert in Applied Positive Psychology & Coaching Psychology
Internal Family Systems Level 3
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner
Brainspotting Practitioner Phase 4
Certified Somatic Trauma Informed Coach
Certified High-Performance Coach
EMDR (Attachment-Focused) Practitioner
Clinical Hypnotherapist & Hypnotherapy Trainer
Certified Breath Work Teacher
Applied Neuroscience & Brain Health Certification
Advanced Certificate in Domestic Abuse
Safe & Sound Protocol Practitioner
I Don’t Want Anyone Else to Suffer the Pain I Did for as Long as I Did.
Over the years, I’ve worked hard to educate myself in this space to ensure that I can help more sufferers of trauma to heal deeply.
I want you to have your own personal EVOLUTION just like I have because life is for living and not existing, and I spent decades merely existing.
As Seen & Featured In
I’m On A Mission To Equip Coaches & Therapists With THE Best Trauma Informed Training Around
#1
Caroline's Mission
iTunes Podcast
'No Visible Bruises' with over 6 million downloads
🎙️
500k+
Combined Following
Across social media platforms and email list
❤️
3
Best Selling Books
Published author and proud Hay House author
📖
THIS WEBSITE AND ALL PROGRAM OFFERINGS ARE SUBJECT TO OUR TERMS OF SERVICE.
Testimonials or endorsements on this website have not been scientifically evaluated and results experienced vary significantly. Many statements outlined on this website are simply opinion.
CONTENT PRESENTED ON THIS WEBSITE, PROGRAMMES OR OTHERWISE IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL ADVICE, DIAGNOSIS, OR TREATMENT OR A PROFESSIONAL THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP. CONTENT PRESENTED IS INTENDED TO PROVIDE GENERAL HEALTH INFORMATION FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. IT SHOULD NOT BE USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL OR PSYCHIATRIC ADVICE, CANNOT DIAGNOSE OR TREAT ANY MEDICAL OR PSYCHIATRIC CONDITION, AND DOES NOT REPLACE CARE FROM YOUR PHYSICIAN.
You should not rely on content presented on this website or any program offered on this website for diagnosis or treatment of any health condition. We are not healthcare professionals or providers. Always consult a healthcare professional if you suspect you require medical or psychiatric treatment. If you believe or suspect you are experiencing an emergency, call your local emergency services immediately.