ABOUT ME

Childhood Trauma Awareness and Positive Psychology

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Hi I'm James, the owner of trauma aware coaching. I support those with adverse childhoods and trauma in taking back the power and learning and development that was cruelly taken from them when it was most needed.

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I help those with childhood trauma understand the most relevant psychology to their healing including area's such as self-compassion, optimism, gratitude, character strengths, meaning in life, self-efficacy, change processes, and growth mindset. Trauma in childhood colors how we learn, change, and grow. It's not that we don't learn and grow, we do. But there is a certain quality to that process, often the absence of embodied emotional connection, that becomes problematic later on. I believe this is something that can be directly helped. I teach and facilitate empowering skills that contribute to success for those disadvantaged by adversity. 

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Alongside running trauma informed coaching, I've been creating and running related on-line businesses for over a decade. One, wisegoals, supports over 100,000 visitors a year struggling with their goals. I create free worksheets that help people go through the process of choosing their goals in a way that supports sustainable motivation and wellbeing. We've supported universities, colleges, prisons, healthcare centres, charities and more.

For decades I've been writing about and researching psychology, beginning with sports psychology, then moving on to goal-setting, and finally on to coaching psychology, positive psychology, and trauma. This experience supports and guides what I do at trauma aware coaching. I combine psychoeducation with coaching making inaccessible dynamics accessible.

I'm personally passionate about using my awareness and experience of trauma's impact developmentally, to make positive psychological factors more appealing, understandable, and applicable. This provides trauma aware coaching with a uniquely balanced and nuanced approach to recovery that emphasises the obstacles and opportunities in equal measure.

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