TRA helps participants understand their responses to childhood abuse and neglect while gaining new skills to live healthier lives. TRA currently offers Healthy Living Skills (HLS) for adult survivors of childhood trauma.
This is FREE to participants!
To view the TRA Brochure click here
Healthy Living Skills
HLS helps participants recognize their triggers, learn skills, and overcome challenges to make more desirable choices.
To view the HLS Brochure click here
Content covered in HLS groups:
- Staying grounded in the present
- Learning to manage strong feelings
- Identifying triggers
- Calming the body’s stress response especially in response to triggers
- Modifying extreme responses and black and white thinking in work, school, family and relationships
- Understanding where one’s own responsibly begins and ends
- Learning to accept grief
- Understanding the power of forgiveness
Participants can expect:
- No cost/No insurance required
- Small groups
- Trained facilitators
- Community-based locations
- Seven group sessions, 1.5 hours each
- One individual session [post-assessment]
- Includes a snack and break
- Invitation to participate in a research study
Current Groups being offered, Please call 269-459-2121 to register.
Family & Children Services (1608 Lake St. Kalamazoo)
Zhang Conference Room
7-8:30 pm (Wednesdays for 7 weeks)
Due to CoVid19 HLS Groups will be postponed until April 8.
Groups will resume Wednesdays April 8 – May 6
TRA is also contracting the Trauma Recovery Program (TRP) for the Diocese and those groups are:
St. Catherine of Siena (1150 W Centre Ave, Portage, MI 49024)
TRP English – Learning Group
Mondays, 9-11:30 am
Due to CoVid19 TRP Groups will be postponed until April 6.
Dates: Groups will resume on April 6- June 15 No meeting on May 25, Memorial Day
St. Catherine of Siena (1150 W Centre Ave, Portage, MI 49024)
GLP Room
Followed by a Support Group
Meeting every other week.
Healing Adults with Childhood Trauma
To view the Healing ACT brochure click here
Healing ACT helps participants understand their responses to childhood abuse and neglect while gaining new skills to live healthier lives.
Content covered in Healing ACT groups:
- Understanding the effects of childhood abuse and neglect and why they continue
- Tools to stabilize daily living
- Skills to identify and correct distorted thinking
- Improved capacity to process and integrate emotions
- Healthier relationships
- A more satisfying life
Participants can expect:
- Small groups
- Trained mental health professionals
- Community-based locations
- Two individual sessions [pre- and post -assessments]
- Ten group sessions, 2.5 hours each
- Includes a snack and break
- Invitation to participate in a research study