Helping you create emotional safety, even when navigating your own trauma, school system challenges, or a toxic co-parent.
Trauma Informed Parenting Programme
Raising Regulated, Resilient, and Connected Children
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Are you a parent who...
Feels exhausted trying to manage daily meltdowns, shutdowns, emotional outbursts or watching your child disappear into their phone or bedroom when things get overwhelming?
Worries that school, family, or even your co-parent just don’t get your child, and sometimes blame and judge you for their behaviour, while you’re just trying to keep everyone regulated?
Sees your child people pleasing, masking their real emotions, or trying to be "perfect" on the outside, while deep down you fear what they’re bottling up inside, especially under the pressure of social media and constant comparison?
Finds yourself shouting, shutting down, scrolling your own phone to escape, or withdrawing when your child's behaviour triggers old feelings of being "not good enough" as a parent?
Dreams of breaking generational cycles — of raising emotionally resilient, compassionate kids — but sometimes wonders if you're really doing enough to heal yourself and create the future you want for your family?
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Whether You're
This programme will give you the tools to build emotional safety, resilience, and connection at every stage of parenting.
a new parent
raising toddlers
a new parent
supporting young children
navigating teenage years
working to heal relationships with your adult children
A Trauma Informed, Evidence-Based Parenting Approach You Can Trust
This isn’t just a parenting course built from personal experience, it’s a trauma-informed, evidence-based programme rooted in the latest research and professional practice. Inside, you’ll be supported with tools and frameworks from:
Internal Family Systems (IFS) — helping you and your child understand emotional "parts" and build true self-leadership
Positive Psychology — evidence-based techniques to build resilience, emotional strength, and wellbeing
Somatic Experiencing (SE) — supporting nervous system regulation and healing stored survival stress
Breathwork — simple, body-based practices to reset stress responses and restore calm
Learn to co-regulate emotions with your children.
Somatic Healing Tools — practical strategies to bring safety, presence, and connection into everyday parenting
Trauma Informed Meditation Practices — short, powerful resets to support real nervous system flexibility and emotional regulation
You are not alone
You are not broken.
Your child isn’t broken either.
And with the right support and understanding, you can move beyond survival… into regulation, connection, and thriving.
SURVIVE
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This isn’t about cramming your mind with more parenting tips you forget under pressure.
The Trauma Informed Parenting Programme is designed to be embodied education, meaning you don’t just learn new concepts; you live them, practice them, and feel them in your body over time.
Through somatic tools, breathwork, nervous system exercises, and real world parenting strategies, you’ll gently rewire old patterns from the inside out.
This isn’t about doing more, it’s about becoming more regulated, more connected, and more compassionate, with yourself and with your child.
Because true healing doesn't happen through information alone, it happens through felt, lived, embodied experience
Not Just Information
This is Embodied Education
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The Co-Regulation Playbook: 30 Ways to Help Your Child Feel Safe and Seen
BONUS 1
Inside, you’ll discover:
Easy co regulation activities for toddlers, young children, and teens
Real-world scripts and sensory tools you can use instantly
Techniques to help your child shift from survival mode back to safety and connection
(PDF Download)
When emotions run high, it's easy to feel stuck or helpless especially if your child is melting down, shutting down, or pulling away.
The Co-Regulation Playbook gives you 30 simple, practical ways to meet your child’s nervous system where it is, helping them feel safe, seen, and supported again.
Everything you need to respond with calm, not chaos, no matter what age your child is.
Practical | Real-life | Trauma-informed
The Difficult Conversations Toolkit: How to Talk About Big Feelings, Big Mistakes, and Big Life Changes
Inside, you’ll get:
A full trauma informed guide to preparing yourself emotionally before hard talks
Practical, real-world conversation scripts for young children, tweens, teens, and even adult children
Regulation tools to help you stay calm, connected, and present — even when emotions are high
Hard conversations are part of real-life parenting but they don’t have to feel terrifying or overwhelming.
In this powerful bonus e-book, you’ll learn how to approach sensitive topics like emotions, mistakes, friendships, phones, boundaries, grief, and life changes, all without triggering shutdowns, shame spirals, or power struggles.
Because the way we talk about the hard things doesn’t just solve problems, it teaches our children whether it’s truly safe to come to us at all.
BONUS 2
(PDF Download)
Parent Reset Meditations: 5 Powerful Audio Practices to Regulate Yourself Fast
BONUS 3
Calm racing thoughts
Anchor yourself back into your body
Soothe survival responses (fight, flight, freeze)
Repair your regulation and show up from Self-leadership, not survival
(Audio Downloads)
Parenting will always bring tough moments but you don’t have to stay stuck in overwhelm, frustration, or shame spirals.
The Parent Reset Meditations are short, powerful audio practices designed to bring you back to calm, safety, and clarity quickly.
Listen anytime you feel yourself spinning out and return to your strength, presence, and compassion.
You’ll gain lifetime access to a full toolkit for creating regulation, connection, and resilience in your home.
Inside, you’ll get 5 of my favourite nervous system reset meditations to use anytime you need to:
Parenting is one of the greatest sources of love, meaning, and joy in our lives
No one hands you a guidebook for how to stay calm when your child is losing control, or how to stay connected when your own body feels overwhelmed.
Parenting isn't just about what we say, it’s about what we feel, what we carry, and how our nervous systems respond in the moments that matter most.
When we understand the science of stress, survival, and connection, we can stop seeing our child's behaviours, and our own reactions, as failures, and start seeing them as invitations: invitations to heal, to connect, and to build something stronger than just obedience, to build real emotional safety.
but it can also bring out some of our deepest struggles.
But some days, it feels like you’re battling an invisible force, inside your child, inside yourself, and inside the world around you.
Maybe you’re seeing behaviours like:
When your child acts out, shuts down, or people-pleases, it’s not “bad behaviour.”
It’s their nervous system protecting them.
Fight Survival Response
Exploding in anger over seemingly small things
Hitting, kicking, biting, or throwing objects
Arguing constantly or aggressively resisting rules
Using intense or intimidating language or tone
Seeking control in every situation to avoid feeling powerless
These behaviours aren’t about being “bad”, they are a child’s protectors stepping in to defend them when their nervous system senses threat.
Flight Survival Response
Running away from stressful situations, arguments, or transitions
Constant fidgeting, needing to move or escape physically
Shifting attention quickly, seeming “distracted” or “hyper”
Avoiding emotions by over-focusing on tasks, activities, or busyness
Restlessness or inability to settle, even during calm moments
These behaviours are a child’s protectors urging them to “outrun” overwhelm, fear, or emotional discomfort.
Freeze Survival Response
Zoning out, becoming very still, or shutting down emotionally
Seeming “too good,” overly compliant, or robotically following instructions
Masking true feelings to avoid upsetting adults
Becoming withdrawn, distant, or excessively quiet
People-pleasing, prioritising adult approval over their own needs and feelings
Freeze behaviours, including emotional shutdown and people-pleasing are ways your child’s protectors help them survive overwhelming environments.
And What Your Child Really Wants…
To feel safe enough to show all of who they are
To express big emotions without fear of rejection, punishment, or shame
To know it’s okay to feel anger, sadness, fear and still be loved
To build emotional resilience, not by avoiding feelings, but by expanding their capacity to cope
To trust their body, their feelings, and their place in the world
This is what true emotional safety creates.
And this is exactly what you will learn how to offer your child, while healing yourself along the way.
Maybe you’re noticing:
And Your Reactions as a Parent Aren’t “Bad” Either
They’re Your Nervous System Protecting You.
Parent Fight Survival Response
Yelling, snapping, or raising your voice faster than you mean to
Feeling a strong need to “win” or control the situation
Getting stuck in power struggles or harsh discipline
Interpreting your child’s behaviour as personal disrespect
Feeling consumed by anger, blame, or resentment toward your child or others
These are your own protectors stepping in trying to defend you against feelings of failure, disrespect, or overwhelm.
Parent Flight Survival Response
Feeling desperate to escape or avoid confrontation with your child
Over-busying yourself to numb out hard emotions
Avoiding discipline conversations altogether because they feel too overwhelming
Feeling restless, anxious, or constantly distracted during parenting moments
Wanting to “fix it quickly” so you don’t have to sit in discomfort
These are your nervous system’s ways of trying to “outrun” the intense feelings triggered by parenting challenges.
Parent Freeze Survival Response
Feeling emotionally numb, disconnected, or unable to respond
Agreeing to things or giving in to avoid conflict
Shutting down or withdrawing emotionally from your child after a hard moment
Struggling to make decisions or feeling paralysed when emotions run high
Falling into deep shame spirals (“I’m a terrible parent,” “I can’t do this”)
Freeze responses in parenting often show up when the overwhelm feels so big, your system tries to keep you safe by shutting down.
And What You as a Parent Really Want…
To parent from a place of calm, clarity, and connection, not fear or shame
To feel confident and grounded even when your child struggles
To break painful cycles without falling into perfectionism or self-blame
To build a strong, secure relationship with your child that lasts beyond the hard moments
To trust yourself, your instincts, and your ability to lead your family with love
You don’t have to parent perfectly.
You simply have to learn how to recognise when your nervous system and your child’s, needs safety, support, and compassion.
That’s what the Trauma Informed Parenting Programme will teach you, step-by-step.
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If your child experiences anxiety, ADHD, autism, sensory sensitivities, emotional overwhelm, or struggles that others often misunderstand, you are in the right place.
The tools inside the Trauma Informed Parenting Programme are not about forcing children to “behave” or “fit in.”
They are about helping your child feel safe enough to thrive as they are, while building the emotional skills and nervous system resilience they need to navigate the world.
You’ll learn how to meet your child’s unique nervous system with practical strategies like co-regulation, breathwork, emotional literacy support, and somatic tools that honour both their sensitivity and their strength.
Every lesson is designed through a neurodivergent-affirming, trauma informed, and compassionate lens because your child’s behaviours are not the problem.
The real work is helping them feel safe enough to express, regulate, and live fully as themselves.
Supporting Neurodivergent, Anxious, and Sensitive Children with Compassion and Confidence
This programme celebrates your child’s individuality and equips you with the knowledge, tools, and heart to raise them with the understanding they deserve.
Today’s children are growing up in a world we never had to navigate, one where social media, online pressure, and constant connection can actually leave them feeling more isolated than ever.
It’s not uncommon for teenagers to retreat into their bedrooms, headphones in, screens glowing, as a way to self-soothe or escape from overwhelming feelings they don’t yet have the tools to manage.
And while it can sometimes look like defiance or disconnection, underneath, it’s often another survival response and an attempt to regulate emotions the only way they know how.
The Trauma Informed Parenting Programme doesn’t just help you understand tantrums or meltdowns in young children, it equips you to keep the lines of communication open as your child grows into adolescence and beyond.
You’ll learn how to spot the signs of emotional overwhelm (even when your child insists they’re “fine”), how to navigate difficult conversations about emotions, safety, and choices, and how to build a relationship where your child knows it’s safe to be seen, heard, and supported, not judged.
Parenting in a World of Phones, Social Media, and Silent Bedrooms
Safety | Regulation | Compassion | Connection
Because whether they’re three or seventeen, our children need the same core things from us:
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Parenting through a trauma informed lens isn’t about reacting perfectly every time.
It’s about slowing the moment down, recognising what’s happening inside you and your child, and choosing connection over correction. When overwhelm rises, when emotions feel too big, when you’re triggered and unsure what to do……..
PAUSE first. Then parent.
PAUSE First, Then Parent.
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Inside the Trauma Informed Parenting Programme, you’ll learn exactly how to use the PAUSE Method in real life:
- How to recognise when you’re slipping into your own survival responses
- How to calm and regulate your nervous system first
- How to meet your child’s underlying needs, not just react to the surface behaviours
- How to turn hard moments into opportunities for repair, resilience, and deeper trust
Because when you learn to PAUSE first, then parent, you give your children what they need most: A safe base, a steady anchor, and a model of emotional safety they can trust, no matter how big their feelings get.
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Here’s What You’ll Explore Inside the Trauma Informed Parenting Programme:
Module 1: Understanding Trauma’s Impact on You and Your Child
- Learn how trauma shapes behaviours, emotions, and parenting patterns.
- Begin identifying how your own past experiences may affect how you show up with your children today and how awareness is the first step toward change.
Module 2: Calming Your Body So You Can Calm Theirs
- Discover how trauma lives in the body and how simple, body-based practices like grounding, orienting, and releasing stuck energy (based on Somatic Experiencing principles) help you stay calm, present, and responsive instead of reactive.
Module 3: Healing Your Triggers to Parent From Your Best Self
- Meet and understand the inner parts of you that show up in parenting, the anxious part, the angry part, the perfectionist, and learn how to lead from your grounded, compassionate Self using Internal Family Systems (IFS) tools.
Module 4: Everyday Tools to Regulate Your Stress and Emotions
- Master practical regulation techniques like breathwork, pendulation, titration, and mindfulness practices that help you move through overwhelm, anxiety, and frustration returning to a state of calm more quickly and modelling emotional regulation for your child.
Module 5: Helping Your Child Feel Safe in Their Own Body
- Recognise the signs of nervous system dysregulation in your child and learn how to offer powerful co-regulation through rhythmic activities, sensory tools, and shared calming rituals that rebuild trust and emotional safety.
Module 6: Helping Your Child Understand Their Feelings
- Use playful, age-appropriate language and techniques to help your child recognise and name their emotions and “inner parts,” building emotional intelligence, resilience, and self-awareness from an early age.
Module 7: Using Play to Help Your Child Express and Heal
- Learn how creative tools like sand trays, Lego characters, and storytelling can help your child safely externalise, explore, and process big emotions encouraging problem-solving, healing, and emotional freedom through play.
Module 8: Teaching Your Child to Breathe Through Big Feelings
- Introduce your child to simple, fun, somatic breathwork practices like Bubble Breaths, Feather Breathing, and Rainbow Breaths helping them learn how to regulate themselves through fear, sadness, anger, or excitement.
Module 9: Repairing After Ruptures and Building Deeper Connection
- Discover how to navigate mistakes, conflicts, and emotional ruptures with empathy and attunement and how powerful real repair (not perfection) is for building lifelong emotional security in your relationship.
Module 10: Growing Resilient, Confident, Emotionally Intelligent Kids
- Foster true resilience, adaptability, and emotional strength by helping your children learn to problem-solve, process big feelings, and develop a growth mindset, not by avoiding emotions, but by expanding their capacity to cope.
Module 11: Taking Care of Yourself So You Can Care for Them
- Create a sustainable self-care and healing practice for yourself, including somatic regulation, creative expression, boundary setting, and community support because regulated parents raise regulated kids.
Module 12: Creating a Calm, Connected, Trauma Informed Family Life
- Bring everything together into a daily family rhythm rooted in emotional safety, compassion, and secure connection building a nurturing home where healing and resilience can grow for generations to come.
- Understand how trauma shapes parent-child dynamics and how to change the patterns.
- Have practical somatic, emotional, and communication tools you can use immediately.
- Feel calmer, more connected, and more confident as a parent, even in difficult situations.
- Help your children build emotional resilience and self-awareness from a young age.
- Create a home environment rooted in safety, compassion, and lifelong healing.
Course Outcomes:
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Module 1 unlocks immediately
New module released each week for 12 weeks to support steady, lasting growth
Lifetime access to revisit the content anytime you need
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The Co-Regulation Playbook: 30 Ways to Help Your Child Feel Safe and Seen
BONUS 1
Inside, you’ll discover:
Easy co regulation activities for toddlers, young children, and teens
Real-world scripts and sensory tools you can use instantly
Techniques to help your child shift from survival mode back to safety and connection
(PDF Download)
When emotions run high, it's easy to feel stuck or helpless especially if your child is melting down, shutting down, or pulling away.
The Co-Regulation Playbook gives you 30 simple, practical ways to meet your child’s nervous system where it is, helping them feel safe, seen, and supported again.
Everything you need to respond with calm, not chaos, no matter what age your child is.
Practical | Real-life | Trauma-informed
The Difficult Conversations Toolkit: How to Talk About Big Feelings, Big Mistakes, and Big Life Changes
Inside, you’ll get:
A full trauma informed guide to preparing yourself emotionally before hard talks
Practical, real-world conversation scripts for young children, tweens, teens, and even adult children
Regulation tools to help you stay calm, connected, and present — even when emotions are high
Hard conversations are part of real-life parenting but they don’t have to feel terrifying or overwhelming.
In this powerful bonus e-book, you’ll learn how to approach sensitive topics like emotions, mistakes, friendships, phones, boundaries, grief, and life changes, all without triggering shutdowns, shame spirals, or power struggles.
Because the way we talk about the hard things doesn’t just solve problems, it teaches our children whether it’s truly safe to come to us at all.
BONUS 2
(PDF Download)
Parent Reset Meditations: 5 Powerful Audio Practices to Regulate Yourself Fast
BONUS 3
Calm racing thoughts
Anchor yourself back into your body
Soothe survival responses (fight, flight, freeze)
Repair your regulation and show up from Self-leadership, not survival
(Audio Downloads)
Parenting will always bring tough moments but you don’t have to stay stuck in overwhelm, frustration, or shame spirals.
The Parent Reset Meditations are short, powerful audio practices designed to bring you back to calm, safety, and clarity quickly.
Listen anytime you feel yourself spinning out and return to your strength, presence, and compassion.
You’ll gain lifetime access to a full toolkit for creating regulation, connection, and resilience in your home.
Inside, you’ll get 5 of my favourite nervous system reset meditations to use anytime you need to:
I’m not just a trauma therapist and coach, I’m also a mum to two incredible humans, a 20-year-old son and a 17-year-old daughter. They are compassionate, kind, emotionally aware, and centred. But if you think that happened without challenges, it didn’t. In fact, the early years of my parenting journey were some of the hardest of my life.
After leaving an abusive, narcissistic marriage, I found myself parenting through my own pain and trauma. I was surviving, not thriving. My sense of worth was so tangled up in being “a good mum” that I unknowingly placed huge pressure on my children to make me feel good enough. And that’s a heavy load for any child to carry. Thankfully, when they were still very young, I recognised what was happening and made the decision to prioritise my own healing. Because I knew if I didn’t, I risked passing down the very patterns I was trying to protect them from.
Let me be clear though, because healing didn’t turn me into a perfect parent (spoiler alert — there’s no such thing). I still made mistakes. I still got triggered. But what changed was my ability to repair, regulate, and model real emotional resilience. I used to think my own parents were superheroes, infallible, flawless beings (I honestly wasn’t sure they were even human at one point). It wasn’t until my mid-20s that I realised they were simply people, doing the best they could with the tools they had. And that’s what we all are.
Parenting through a trauma informed lens has allowed me to raise my children with compassion, humility, and honesty, not perfection. And now, it’s my absolute privilege to help you do the same.
Hi, I’m Caroline Strawson — and I’m Right Here With You
I've been there.
I've seen it.
Done it.
Lived it
YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
Meet Your Educator
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
Polyvagal Informed
Applied Neuroscience & Brain Health Certification
Advanced Certificate in Domestic Abuse
Safe & Sound Protocol Practitioner
Cold Water Therapy Practitioner
Why Should You Listen To Me?
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.
Qualifications and Certifications:
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Host of #1 Podcast
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I host the #1 iTunes Podcast ‘No Visible Bruises - Survivor Stories of Narcissistic Abuse, Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control" with over 6 million downloads.
Author of 3 best-selling books and Hay House author, How to Heal After Narcissistic Abuse.
Instagram 280,000 followers
YouTube 8 Million Views
TikTok over 290,000 likes
Email list over 90,000 subscribers
Facebook over 160,000 followers
Frequently Asked Questions
This is very common.
Children often mask or suppress their true emotions in outside environments, and release them where they feel safest, at home.
Inside the Trauma Informed Parenting Programme, you’ll learn how to understand and support your child’s nervous system during these moments, without shame or blame, and strengthen their ability to self-regulate over time.
You can still create emotional safety, connection, and resilience within your own home, even if your child’s other environment is less supportive.
This programme focuses on the power of one regulated, attuned parent and how that alone can change your child’s sense of safety and wellbeing long-term.
Absolutely.
This programme is built for busy, real-life parents.
The modules are broken into manageable, flexible lessons, with practical tools you can start using immediately without needing to “perfect” anything first.
You can move through the materials at your own pace and revisit them anytime.
Yes.
The strategies taught in this programme such as nervous system regulation, co-regulation, breathwork, emotional literacy, and somatic support are highly effective across a wide range of neurodivergent and emotional needs.
This is a trauma informed, neurodivergent-affirming space.
Yes!
Trauma informed parenting isn’t about being perfect, it’s about learning how to repair, regulate, and reconnect when ruptures happen (because they always do).
You’ll learn exactly how to come back to connection after tough moments and model emotional resilience for your child.
You’ll receive lifetime access to the course materials.
That means you can go at your own pace, revisit tools as your child grows, and deepen your learning whenever you need extra support.
Not at all.
This programme is designed for everyday parents, not therapists.
Everything is explained in clear, compassionate language, with simple, real-world strategies you can start applying immediately in your family life.
Still have questions?
Reach out to hello@carolinestrawson.com and we’ll be happy to help you find the best support for you and your family!
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