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Trauma responses, freeze, flight, fight, fawn, are the nervous system's attempt to protect you. They served a purpose. When they're still running in situations that don't require them, they cost more than they protect.

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What coaching can do for trauma responses

Trauma-informed coaching works with the responses as they are, not by pushing through them or suppressing them, but by building understanding of what activates them and developing different options. Sessions are careful, gradual, and deeply respectful of your nervous system.

People who recognise their responses to stress, conflict, or perceived threat as outsized and automatic. People whose trauma responses are affecting work, relationships, or daily life. People who have done some therapeutic work but want practical support applying it.

Signs coaching might help

Responses to situations that feel out of proportion to what's happening
Shutting down, running away from, or overreacting to certain triggers
Recognising a pattern of fawn, please and appease, in situations that feel threatening
Difficulty trusting your own perceptions because they've been so shaped by past experience
A persistent sense of being on guard even in objectively safe situations

Common questions

Is trauma coaching the same as trauma therapy?

No. Trauma therapy is clinical work that processes traumatic memory and is done by licensed therapists. Trauma-informed coaching builds awareness, skills, and practical functioning in people who have experienced trauma. They address different levels and work well together.

What if I don't know whether my responses are trauma-based?

You don't need to know. A skilled coach can help you understand what's happening without requiring a clinical label.

Is it safe to work with trauma responses in coaching?

With the right coach, yes. A trauma-informed coach knows how to work within the window of tolerance, not pushing into territory that's destabilising. They'll always defer to clinical support when that's what's needed.

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