The Trauma-Informed Coach

As a coach or practitioner, your focus is always on facilitating your clients to flourish, thrive and believe in their potential. But what happens when past traumas and emotional injuries prevent them from making progress in the here and now? How do you respond?

In this indispensable and highly practical guide, master coach Joanna Harper shares her experience and expert knowledge to equip you with the crucial awareness and skills you need to competently manage even the most challenging of client situations and experiences. 

Through ten unique core competencies, five powerful and practical models, plus an illuminating and insightful range of case studies that bring everything to life, you’ll discover how to:

• Put trauma awareness at the core of your coaching practice.
• Feel confident that you’re dealing with trauma supportively.
• Handle the distressing emotions and painful memories that past traumas can surface.
• Know when to refer clients to other services or professionals.
• Focus and draw on your client’s existing resources and strengths.

Whether you’re newly certified or already an experienced coach or practitioner, by being trauma-informed and in possession of these forward-thinking, empowering skills you’ll always know the most appropriate measures and suitable ways to advance when past experiences are preventing your client’s progress.

"Definitely a book for all coaches who want to deal with the truth of the unexpected." -- Sue Knight, NLP Master Trainer and Author
"This important book is an invaluable roadmap for compassionately navigating a route to solutions when issues are driven by past traumas. Highly recommended!" -- Dr Phil Parker, Lead Lecturer in Coaching, London Metropolitan University
"Addresses one of the biggest challenges of our time. A unique, whole-person approach for coaches who need inspiring guidance." -- Jean Bosco Niyonzima MD, Executive Director, Ubuntu Center for Peace, Rwanda
"Dont miss this! Trauma is ubiquitous and these are the cardinal skills needed to best help those in need." -- Lloyd I. Sederer MD, Former New York City Mental Health Commissioner

As an experienced and highly skilled Certified Master Trainer, Coach, Facilitator, Speaker and Therapist, Joanna is able to share the breadth and depth of her knowledge to her courses and private client sessions in ways that are safe, practical, easy to understand and readily applicable, for everyday and in challenging times. 

She is a consummate professional who walks her talk and draws on her myriad of life and academic learning and experiences in a way that is grounded, compassionate and inclusive. 

Joanna specialises in Coaching clients who have experienced trauma or loss in their past, helping them develop peace and acceptance. She integrates skills from Coaching, NLP, IEMT, and Breath-Body-Mind with her private coaching clients. 

Joanna has a fun-loving, warm personality and passion for excellence, and brings her trainings and book alive with practical applications and case histories.

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