About

CFTE is an educational organization that prepares mental health professionals, movement practitioners, community leaders, and care providers to bring embodied principles of trauma care into their work. Our programs are grounded in decades of original research — and in a deep belief that trauma is not a personal failure. It is a response to overwhelming conditions. And healing from it should be as accessible as those conditions are inevitable.

Each of our programs represents a different entry point into embodied trauma care — grounded in the same research, the same values, and the same commitment to expanding where healing can happen.

TCTSY Trauma-Sensitive Yoga
The world's first yoga-based intervention for complex trauma found to be as effective as talk therapy. With certified facilitators in more than 50 countries, TCTSY is the most established and widely researched program in the CFTE ecosystem.

TIWL Trauma-Informed Weight Lifting
Weight lifting, when approached through a trauma-informed lens, becomes a powerful tool for building agency, resilience, and nervous system regulation. TIWL is establishing the evidence base for movement as medicine.

TIME Trauma-Informed Mindful Eating
TIME explores the intersection of trauma, nourishment, and the body — moving away from control and correction, and toward curiosity, compassion, and a more empowered relationship with food.

TIIP Trauma-Informed Improv & Play
Improvisational theatre is a body-first practice. TIIP draws on the principles of improv to create experiences of choice, presence, and embodied healing — for individuals and groups living with complex trauma.

The Embodied Workplace
A trauma-informed framework supporting culturally responsive leadership and organizational change. Integrating social justice principles through an embodied approach — focusing on leadership, power dynamics, oppression, culture change, relationships, and movement.

CFTE's work is grounded in over two decades of original clinical research — some of the most rigorous ever conducted in the field of body-based trauma care. Our body-based interventions have been found to be as effective as — and in some cases more effective than — traditional talk therapy across more than a dozen peer-reviewed studies.

JAMA Network Open: TCTSY outperforms gold-standard PTSD treatment in landmark RCT
A randomized clinical trial found TCTSY produced faster symptom improvement and higher retention rates than Cognitive Processing Therapy — one of the most widely used evidence-based treatments for PTSD in the world.