S2 Episode 26: Trauma and Trauma Recovery with Bobbi Parish, Trauma Recovery Coach

Bobbi Parish is a Trauma Recovery Coach and one of the kindest human beings you'll ever meet! After enduring decades of trauma as both a child and adult, Bobbi struggled with depression, disability and homelessness – bouncing in and out of psychiatric wards seven different times. As she tried to get help within the mental health system she was labeled as a “difficult patient” because she didn’t improve in the retraumatizing non-trauma informed hospitals and clinics who treated her. After deciding to try to help trauma survivors more compassionately and with her lived experience, her graduate school program told her she had “no potential to contribute to the field” due to her mental health struggles. It took her two decades to shed that belief because it so accurately mirrored what her childhood abusers taught her. But in 2017 she founded The International Association of Trauma Recovery Coaching, which has trained more than 600 Trauma Recovery Coaches around the world, disrupting the Western mental health model’s current treatment of trauma survivors. Over the past five years Bobbi has written and developed five different coaching certification programs where more than 90% of the students entering the coursework are trauma survivors themselves. The Association has the only Code of Ethics, Safety Protocols and Supervision for Trauma Recovery Coaches worldwide. Bobbi also maintains a coaching practice using Internal Family Systems, Trauma Informed Stabilization and HeartMath in service of both individuals and couples with trauma histories.

Connect with Bobbi:

Instagram - @BobbiParish

Website - www.certifiedtraumarecoverycoaching.com

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