One Source. Many Sectors.
Real Tools for Overwhelming Times.
Education, coaching and consulting for behavioral and mental healthcare, education, medical facilities — and wherever people gather.
Trauma-Responsive Emotional Intelligence
We focus on three things: TR-EQ, resilience, and coping with change — building on Trauma-Responsive Emotional Intelligence and Organization Development to improve morale, sturdiness, health and outcomes.
Real tools, tailored to your world
Lower Acuity. Lessen Stress. Increase Healing.
For counselors, agencies and residential programs. Useful as staff training and after-care, and as a foundation for a genuinely trauma-responsive culture.
Less Drama. Higher EQ. Better Culture.
For training departments and individuals who want proactive, practical skills. Whatever the environment, Trauma-Responsive Emotional Intelligence reduces stress and the risk of conflict.
More Ease. Less Conflict. Better Care.
For medical facilities and long-term care. Deliver patient care that helps de-escalate stress, conflict and anxiety for staff and patients alike.
Higher Grades. Better Behavior. Happier Staff.
For educators and school communities. Deliver learning that supports students, teachers and the community — trauma-informed and based in neuroscience.
Becoming trauma-responsive is the most important movement of our time.
Whether it’s trauma with a ‘big T’ or a ‘little t’, the impact on health, learning and earnings is profound — and it can change.
Explore TR-EQ Meet Our FounderHelping the world become whole
The Trauma Informed Academy is a nonprofit organization based in Nashville, TN, providing services to organizations and individuals worldwide — wherever we can help make the world whole. Our work is used on every continent except Antarctica.
Our Vision
A world where every setback sparks genuine growth, lasting resilience and better living — reducing the time, trauma and costs of healing for all involved.
Our Mission
We help individuals and organizations build resilience, develop trauma-informed emotional intelligence, and master the skills to thrive through challenges and strengthen relationships.
Our Audience
People across many sectors who need greater resilience and skills for coping with change — and who are impacted by exposure to overwhelming experiences.
A leading niche consultancy
With a wealth of experience and a commitment to innovation — serving organizations ranging from GM’s Saturn to the national Center for PTSD — we help people “walk the talk.” Our journey began with a simple belief: every individual and organization has the potential for remarkable influence.
Elizabeth Power, M.Ed.
Elizabeth Power is a sought-after speaker, facilitator and consultant with more than 25 years in Trauma Informed Care. She is an Adjunct Instructor in Psychiatry at Georgetown University Medical Center and a Fulbright Specialist in Trauma Informed Care, and has helped organizations worldwide adopt trauma-responsive principles and skills.
She develops cross-cultural adaptations of models of care — including for Japan — and recently released the Trauma Responsive System, focused on mastering nine elements closely aligned with applied emotional intelligence.
“Sharper than a number two pencil, and funnier than a six pack of funny bones on go-juice.”
— an audience member
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Education & Credentials
Selected Works
One source, many sectors
In environments where anything can happen, we help improve morale, sturdiness, resilience, health and organizational outcomes. Choose your world to see how.
What is TR-EQ?
Trauma-Responsive Emotional Intelligence begins with a simple idea: universal exposure, unique response. What happens to people changes them — stalling awareness, choice-making, emotional regulation and the ability to respond reasonably when scared. People prefer higher EQ over a diagnosis, and TR-EQ rebuilds exactly those skills.
Self-awareness
Noticing what’s happening inside you
Social awareness
Reading and responding to others
Choice-making
Acting on purpose, not on autopilot
Emotion regulation
Steadying strong feelings
Responding when scared
Staying reasonable under stress
Resilience
Bouncing forward through change
Big T, little t — it all counts
From natural disasters and war to everyday overwhelm, becoming trauma-responsive is, in our founder’s words, the most important movement of our time. TR-EQ makes it practical.
The Trauma Responsive System
Our newest model focuses on mastering nine elements closely aligned with applied emotional intelligence — delivered through the lens of trauma-informed thinking, and grounded in neuroscience and adult learning.
How we help you walk the talk
Becoming trauma-informed to avoid citations is the beginning. Practicing and sustaining trauma-responsivity is the goal — and everything we do is filtered through our TR-EQ model.
Reduce the Risks of Citations
Becoming trauma-informed to avoid citations is the beginning; practicing and sustaining trauma-responsivity is the goal. We help set goals and build actionable strategies, all filtered through our TR-EQ model as the lens for applied trauma-informed care.
Integrate TR-EQ into Staff Development
We work with your metrics to identify the true costs of training and re-training — turnover, changes in work, and the current social climate — then go beneath surface-level training to normalize a healing environment. We provide the least expensive method of delivery and license for your LMS as needed.
What Makes TR-EQ Work
We believe in “universal exposure with unique response.” What happens to people changes them — stalling self- and social-awareness, choice-making, emotional regulation, and the ability to respond reasonably when scared. People prefer higher EQ over a diagnosis, and TR-EQ rebuilds exactly those skills.
TR-EQ Coaching
We help clients cultivate a different frame of reference that increases service capacity, improves team dynamics and enhances engagement. We offer executives and staff workshops and coaching grounded in Trauma-Responsive Emotional Intelligence — our flagship model.
What our clients say
Facilities using TR-EQ report fewer outbursts, reduced need for serious interventions, and an overall decline in problematic behaviors — improving care, boosting morale and strengthening the whole team.
Our outreach & campaigns
A look at how The Trauma Informed Academy shows up each month — short, practical messages that make trauma-responsive thinking part of everyday work and life. Tap any image to enlarge.
Books, media & blog
Explore Elizabeth Power’s books, media appearances and writing on trauma, resilience and change.
Books
Including Healer: Reducing Crises and How to Get Happier.
Media
Talks, interviews and features on trauma-responsive work.
Blog
Writing on change, resilience, self-care and TR-EQ.
Online courses
The TIA delivers self-paced online courses that explore trauma-informed care and build Emotional Intelligence skills through the lens of trauma-informed thinking.
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The Trauma Informed Academy is a nonprofit based in Nashville, TN, founded by Elizabeth Power, M.Ed. It provides education, coaching and consulting in Trauma-Responsive Emotional Intelligence (TR-EQ), resilience and coping with change to behavioral and mental healthcare, education, medical facilities and beyond. Its work is used on every continent except Antarctica.
Live information sessions
See how trauma-responsive teams work
Join a free live session with The Trauma Informed Academy. Learn what TR-EQ is, how it lowers stress and conflict, and how it fits your organization — with time for your questions.
- What Trauma-Responsive Emotional Intelligence is
- How it lowers acuity, drama and conflict
- Bringing it to your sector and staff
- Live Q&A with the team
Videos
Watch talks and short lessons on trauma-responsive thinking on the official YouTube channel.
Let’s talk
Need more information before you start, or want a virtual coffee? Send a message and we’ll be in touch.
The Trauma Informed Academy
Nashville, TN
Phone (615) 714-6389
Hours Mon–Fri, 9:00am–6:00pm