{"id":11533,"date":"2023-05-25T11:02:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T11:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/?p=11533"},"modified":"2023-03-25T19:35:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T19:35:17","slug":"trauma-informed-coaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/trauma-informed-coaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Trauma Informed Coaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>by Beth Donovan <a href=\"https:\/\/bethdonovan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/bethdonovan.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trauma-informed coaching is different than therapy; it does involve the awareness of trauma and how it is affecting the client in the present. Therapy delves into the past, where the trauma came from, diagnosis, and in some cases, medication. A trauma-informed coach understands how trauma shows up in a client\u2019s challenges, strengths, and behaviors.\u00a0 The coach then uses that understanding to inform their questions.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11534\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11534\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11534 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/25-May-Trauma-Informed-Coaching-by-Beth-Donovan-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"4 Nurses and\/or doctors are standing and talking\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/25-May-Trauma-Informed-Coaching-by-Beth-Donovan-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/25-May-Trauma-Informed-Coaching-by-Beth-Donovan-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/25-May-Trauma-Informed-Coaching-by-Beth-Donovan-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/25-May-Trauma-Informed-Coaching-by-Beth-Donovan-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/25-May-Trauma-Informed-Coaching-by-Beth-Donovan-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/25-May-Trauma-Informed-Coaching-by-Beth-Donovan-40x60.jpg 40w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/25-May-Trauma-Informed-Coaching-by-Beth-Donovan-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11534\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trauma Informed Coaching by Beth Donovan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As coaches, our responsibility is to use coaching to help clients use positive measures to discover their strengths, create healthy beliefs, behaviors, and coping strategies. We serve as support, and we are client led. \u00a0Educational materials about trauma and recovery may be on a resource page on our website, searched for together in a session, or provided before coaching.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trauma can be complex, as can be healing from it. \u00a0It may take more than one form of recovery work to resolve trauma\u2019s effects.\u00a0 Some methods include talk therapy, EDMR, <a href=\"https:\/\/arttherapy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">art therapy<\/a>, somatic experiencing, and more.\u00a0 These are forms of therapy that can be used in conjunction with coaching for an optimal result \u2013 specifically, it can be smart for a client to have both a therapist and a coach. \u00a0Because of this, trauma informed coaches encourage a team approach, as they themselves are non-clinical. \u00a0They do not treat or diagnose. \u00a0This means they have an ethical responsibility, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingfederation.org\/ethics\/code-of-ethics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Coaching Federation\u2019s Code of Ethics<\/a>, to ensure the client receives value and if there is a shift in value explore them finding a different coach or different professional as appropriate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/training.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coach training<\/a>, coaches develop and enhance their ability to co-create safety and trust with clients and the skills to support a positive, proactive focus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having a trauma-informed coach frees a client to know they are in good hands. \u00a0They will be safe to travel their path because their coach is safe and knowledgeable with their best interests in mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Beth Donovan https:\/\/bethdonovan.com Trauma-informed coaching is different than therapy; it does involve the awareness of trauma and how it is affecting the client in &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[470,471,16,40],"tags":[48,85,50,49,319,1089,1087,757,2260],"class_list":["post-11533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coaching-resources","category-coaching-skills","category-coaching-stories","category-tools-and-techniques","tag-coach","tag-coach-training","tag-coaching","tag-code-of-ethics","tag-healthy","tag-international-coaching-federation","tag-therapy","tag-trauma","tag-trauma-informed-coaching","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11535,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11533\/revisions\/11535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}