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The Trauma Informed AcademyNashville, Tennessee
One Source · Many Sectors · Real Tools

Helping the world become whole.

The Trauma Informed Academy is a nonprofit that gives schools, healthcare, behavioral health and organizations practical, brain-based tools for overwhelming times — built on TR-EQ, Trauma-Responsive Emotional Intelligence.

Est. 2016 · NonprofitThe TR-EQ model25+ years in the fieldEvery continent but Antarctica
What We Do

Real tools for overwhelming times

Trauma shows up in every classroom, clinic and workplace. We don't add another program to your plate — we build the everyday skills that make people calmer, kinder and more resilient. Shift happens one interaction at a time.

Grounded in the brain

Practical, neuroscience-based strategies — not theory that stays on the shelf.

Built on TR-EQ

Trauma-Responsive Emotional Intelligence: skills anyone can learn and use right away.

Made to fit you

One source across many sectors — shaped to your people, your setting and your goals.

Who We Serve

One approach, tailored to your world

Higher grades. Better behavior. Happier staff.

For schools and educators — simple, brain-based strategies that calm classrooms, support students and keep great teachers from burning out.

The TR-EQ Model

Trauma-Responsive Emotional Intelligence

TR-EQ is our flagship model: a set of learnable skills that help people respond — instead of react — when things get hard. It works because everyone is exposed to stress, and everyone's response is their own.

1

Self-awareness

Notice what's happening inside before it takes the wheel.

2

Social awareness

Read the room and the people in it with more accuracy and care.

3

Choice-making

Find the space between what happens and how we answer it.

4

Emotion regulation

Settle the nervous system so thinking — and learning — can happen.

5

Responding when scared

Stay grounded and act with intention, even under pressure.

6

Resilience

Turn setbacks into genuine growth that lasts.

Big-T or little-t, exposure is universal — but every response is unique. TR-EQ meets people where they are, without a diagnosis.
How We Help

Ways to work with us

Integrate TR-EQ into staff development

Weave trauma-responsive EQ into the training you already do — practical, repeatable and built to stick.

TR-EQ coaching

One-to-one and team coaching that turns the model into everyday habits for leaders and staff.

Reduce the risk of citations

Support for regulated settings — from QRTP to long-term care — that strengthens practice where it's inspected.

What makes TR-EQ work

Universal exposure, unique response, and EQ over diagnosis — the principles that make the change durable.

Trusted Across Sectors

Two decades of trusted work

Georgetown University Medical CenterNational Center for PTSDSAMHSANCTSNUnited WayDeloitteJ.D. PowerSidran InstituteSaturn / GM
Elizabeth Power, M.Ed.
Founder · Adjunct Instructor of Psychiatry, Georgetown University Medical Center · Fulbright Specialist in Trauma-Informed Care

With 25+ years in trauma-informed care, Elizabeth built The Trauma Informed Academy to put real, usable tools in the hands of the people who need them most.

In Their Words

What partners tell us

"It changed how our whole team shows up — calmer, clearer, and better for the people we serve."
— Residential Treatment Program Team Lead
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Get Started

Bring TR-EQ to your team

  • Tell us about your setting — school, clinic, agency or team — and what feels hard right now.
  • We'll talk through the right fit: training, coaching or an integrated staff-development plan.
  • We tailor TR-EQ to your people and get started, one interaction at a time.

Let's talk

The best first step is a conversation. Schedule a call, or reach out directly — we'll take it from there.

Shift happens, one interaction at a time.

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