CPtsd Trauma and Identity Series

A Trauma-Trained Framework for Supporting Identity Integration and Relational Safety

Designed for professionals seeking advanced CPtsd education.

Certification is optional. CEU hours available for eligible professionals.

DEVELOPMENTAL trauma  impacts
THE BRAIN

Developmental trauma isn’t just psychological - it changes how the brain builds memory, emotion and identity.

  • 62 % of Australian adults report at least one adverse childhood experience; 23 % report four or more

  • The more adversity a person experiences, the greater the risk - those with 4+ ACEs are 4-12 times more likely to develop depression, addiction, autoimmune illness or early death.

  • These early experiences alter the brain’s structure and chemistry, wiring it for protection instead of connection.

DEVELOPMENTAL TRAUMA IS a Hidden Epidemic

What happens in childhood shapes adult capacity for connection, learning, and trust.

  • Up to 1 in 3 adults meet criteria for developmental or complex trauma.

  • One in three Americans experienced abuse or neglect before age 18.

  • The economic cost of child maltreatment exceeds US $800 billion annually in lost productivity and healthcare.

    Symptoms often hide beneath labels like anxiety, burnout, or personality disorder — leaving trauma untreated and misunderstood.

Healing the professionals Through NeuroSynqt™

Working with trauma carries emotional load and cognitive fatigue.

  • Around half of helping professionals report moderate-to-severe burnout every year.

NeuroSynqt™ restores coherence between thinking, feeling, and relating - for both client and practition

  • The NeuroSynqt™ process heals the healer and the client simultaneously, using experiential, brain-based integration.

  • By working inside the brain’s adaptive logic, it transforms protective wiring into patterns of safety and authentic connection.




💡 Take the Developmental Trauma & Brain Impact Quiz

Explore how early experiences may have shaped your brain’s patterns for safety, connection, and learning.
This brief, anonymous reflection includes two parts - a developmental trauma self-check and a brain impact overview - designed to help you reflect if CPtsd has impacted memory, focus and identity formation. It also includes the tests your professional can do to help you in these areas too. No email required.
✅ Anonymous | 🕒 3 minutes | 🧩 Educational only

Core Unit 7 - MPCTC Accredited Professional Certification Pathway
Master Practitioner of Complex Trauma Coaching (accredited globally) 
Certification is optional. CEU hours available for eligible professionals.

  • Accredited Trainer – Linda Meredith
  • Course Level: Advanced (Professional Training)
  • Payment Plan available
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  •  Time: 18 hrs
 Portfolio: 1
 Exams: 1
 CEU: 6

👉Core Unit 7 of the Master Practitioner in CPtsd Recovery (MPCTC Accredited).
 CEU hours available for eligible professionals.

International Complex Trauma Association
Healing from Complex Ptsd

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🔑 Overview

When trauma fractures identity clients do not just lose confidence they lose connection with who they were before survival took over.

This unit explores how trauma reshapes self concept memory and belonging and how professionals can help rebuild a coherent sense of self.

You will examine the brain’s adaptive design behind identity loss. The prefrontal cortex hippocampus and limbic regions reorganise around threat creating protective selves that keep clients safe yet disconnected.

Talk based approaches often mistake these adaptive identities for resistance which misses the neurological reality driving them.

Across four integrated courses you will learn to map the psychological wound trace how family and social systems reinforce identity distortion and apply practical methods that restore internal coherence.

Each lesson builds toward identity repair helping clients move from fragmented survival roles into authentic integrated living.

Through the NeuroSynqt™ lens you will explore how the brain reconnects through safe relationship how identity can re emerge with support and how counsellors can hold space for both protection and possibility.

💡 The Missing Link in Trauma and Identity Recovery

Professionals supporting adults with developmental or complex trauma often see a quiet identity crisis beneath the surface. Clients can describe their trauma story in detail yet still struggle to feel like themselves. What looks like lack of insight is often the brain’s adaptive identity at work - parts of self built for safety, not authenticity.

Standard models rarely address the intersection between identity, attachment, and brain integration, leaving survivors highly functional but internally fragmented. The result is a sense of self that can manage life, yet feels disconnected from purpose, emotion or belonging.

This Core Unit provides a clear, trauma trained pathway for professionals to:

  • Understand how identity forms through survival learning and why early disconnection becomes the foundation of adult confusion.

  • Recognise the neurobiological cost of suppression and its link to emotional fatigue, perfectionism and people pleasing.

  • Identify the adaptive identities that develop in unsafe environments 

  • Apply brain-based frameworks that guide safe reconstruction of identity without retraumatisation or collapse.

  • Teach clients to recognise internal conflict between who they are and who they had to become

  • Integrate practical strategies that support coherence between memory, motivation and self-awareness.

  • Support meaning making and narrative integration using experiential methods that rewire the brain toward wholeness.

  • Recognise how identity repair restores capacity for joy and connection instead of over analysis or withdrawal.

  • Strengthen practitioner insight and empathy through understanding how the same adaptive mechanisms appear in helpers.

  • Guide clients from survival self to authentic self through grounded, brain-based experiential work.

These courses bridge neuroscience with compassion - helping professionals see beyond behaviour to the brain’s quiet logic for survival and how to gently rewire it toward truth, coherence, and belonging.

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Flexible Learning Support

🎧 Prefer to Listen While You Learn?

Complex trauma can make on screen reading feel heavy or disconnecting. Listening allows the brain to process the material more gently and helps you stay present as you learn.

You can now have your slides read aloud on any device using built in accessibility tools.

Full instructions for Mac, iPhone or iPad, Android, and Windows are included right inside this course.

💜 This feature is designed to support your learning style, not replace it.
🎙️ Linda’s teaching, coaching, and voice remain throughout every course. You will still hear Linda guiding you through the concepts, unpacking examples, and coaching from the slides as part of your learning experience.

👉 Use the Have Your Slides Read To You tab inside the course for device specific instructions and start listening your way through the course.

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Here’s what you’ll walk away with…

  • Practical identity repair frameworks that integrate neuroscience, emotional development and relational mapping.
  • Language to explain identity fragmentation without pathologising clients or reinforcing shame based narratives.
  • Skills to identify adaptive roles such as pleaser, achiever or caretaker and translate them into their original protective purpose.
  • Methods to trace family and social patterns that maintain fractured identities and teach clients how to interrupt them safely.
  • Tools for mapping the psychological wound so clients can see the adaptive logic behind their survival strategies.
  • Confidence to differentiate between true self and survival self using clear brain based concepts clients can grasp easily.
  • Frameworks to support integration where fragmented experiences are gently reconnected without emotional flooding.
  • Insight into intergenerational identity transmission showing how trauma roles are passed down and how to stop the cycle.
  • Brain informed strategies for self coherence that build internal consistency, trust and emotional stability.
  • Guidance for reflective dialogue that restores agency and belonging in both client work and practitioner identity.

The depth of the content and the support this course offers is phenomenal! If you’re on the fence, I’d highly recommend taking the leap

Candace Alley,
CEO candacealley.com

Over the past year and a half, Linda has helped me experience growth that I thought was impossible. In a loving and compassionate manner, she has taught me tools and strategies to manage my trauma symptoms. Most importantly, she made me feel heard, seen, and understood.

Lisa Armele,
Ed.S., MA., CAS.

Linda Meredith is a powerhouse when it comes to bringing research and information together to help us understand complex trauma. More importantly, she breaks things down in a way that is easily accessible. The homework isn’t about memorising terms - it’s about embodying the knowledge while healing ourselves and supporting our clients. practically and effectively. As a professional who has had burnout 3 times, Linda's work has helped me not only return to work but to do so in increasing good health whilst helping clients globally achieve the recover results they also desire.

Sherry Yuan Hunter,
CEO Sandwich Parenting

What Makes the 4 Courses Impactful?

The four courses inside this unit reveal how trauma quietly reshapes identity, memory and belonging. They move beyond theory to uncover the lived brain patterns that make survivors feel both self aware and disconnected.

You will learn how identity splits form as the brain adapts to early threat and how those same adaptations keep clients repeating familiar roles long after danger has passed.

These courses bring together neuroscience, developmental theory and systemic practice to show why clients cannot think or talk their way into identity repair. Instead they need experiences that allow the brain to reconnect what trauma divided.

Through the NeuroSynqt™ lens, you will gain practical frameworks that help clients build coherence step by step. The approach invites empathy for the brain’s design - not blame for its defences - so that healing becomes integration, not performance.

Each course builds confidence, clarity and compassion as you learn to see beyond behaviour to the brain’s beautiful logic for survival and the pathways that restore authentic selfhood.




🧰 Made for Those Who Work in the Messy Middle of Healing

  • Counsellors, psychologists, and social workers seeking advanced training in CPtsd and narcissistic abuse recovery.
  • Allied health and pastoral care professionals supporting trauma-bonded or abuse-impacted adults.
  • Educators and community leaders wanting a neuroscience-based, trauma-trained framework for complex trauma recovery.
  • Students and emerging practitioners building professional credibility with CPtsd-specific, brain-based practice.
  • Practitioners working toward certification and CEUs in CPtsd Recovery.
  • Individuals with lived experience pursuing structured, professional-level CPtsd education and personal integration.

🌟 The Shift You’ll See in Clients (and Yourself)

Imagine sitting with a client who says, “I know who I’m meant to be, but I can’t seem to feel it.” Their voice carries the exhaustion of someone who has spent years trying to hold themselves together while quietly wondering who they really are underneath.

Maybe you recognise that experience too - capable on the surface, but shaped by old survival roles that once kept you safe?

These four courses don’t just expand professional skill, they transform how you understand identity formation and repair through a CPtsd and brain-based lens. You’ll walk away with clarity, confidence and compassion to support clients who are still living from survival-shaped selves rather than authentic identity.

You’ll be able to:

  • Recognise the brain patterns that keep clients looping between performance, withdrawal and over-functioning.

  • Explain identity fragmentation in clear, client-friendly language that normalises survival adaptation rather than pathologising it.

  • Validate clients’ inner conflict between who they are and who they had to become while maintaining professional steadiness.

  • Differentiate survival roles from integrated identity and guide clients toward coherence through brain-based reflection.

  • Facilitate practical identity reconstruction that rebuilds agency, self-trust and belonging step by step.

  • Identify generational and social templates that reinforce fractured self-concepts across family and community systems.

  • Support clients in releasing shame and confusion through insight into how the brain protected them from unbearable reality.

  • Guide reflective dialogue that reconnects meaning, memory and motivation for sustainable identity repair.

  • Strengthen your professional confidence and presence as you learn to recognise your own adaptive identity patterns with compassion.

  • Model integrated selfhood so that clients see what wholeness feels like — calm, grounded and congruent.

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Course 1

The Neuroscience of the Psychological Wound

Course 2

Recovery from a Psychological Wound

Course 3

Trauma and Identity

Course 4

Bowen Family Systems Theory

Course 1 -The Neuroscience of the Psychological Wound

Examine how developmental trauma fractures identity and learn approaches for guiding clients toward repair.
Course includes 23 slides
  • Explore how psychological wounds alter brain development and identity.
  • Identify how meaning and direction are disrupted by developmental wounds.
  • Explore how trauma disrupts values and beliefs, fracturing identity.
  • Explore the neurobiological roots of identity disruption.
  • Understand the formation of negative self-image in survivors.
  • Explore the link between attachment injuries and fractured identity.
  • Identify how trauma suppresses authentic identity.
  • Identify how trauma-driven coping reshapes brain function.
  • Learn why relational safety becomes difficult after early trauma.
  • Connect neuroscience insights with practical identity recovery frameworks.

Course 2 -  Recovery from a Psychological Wound

Learn how developmental trauma recovery unfolds, and how to guide clients through its challenges and opportunities.
Course includes 22 slides
  • Learn the five stages of recovery from psychological trauma.
  • Identify shame and stigma as barriers to progress.
  • Understand why creating safety and stabilisation is the essential first step.
  • Explore the impact of avoidance and survival defences on healing.
  • Recognise how mourning and grief emerge as part of recovery work.
  • Understand how co-occurring conditions complicate recovery journeys.
  • Examine the role of reconnection in restoring identity and belonging.
  • Review practical interventions that support psychological wound repair.
  • Identify how meaning-making supports resilience and growth.
  • Connect recovery frameworks to daily practices clients can sustain.

Course 3- Trauma and Identity

Understand how developmental trauma fractures identity and how to guide clients in rebuilding a coherent sense of self.
Course includes 28 slides
  • Understand how childhood trauma fragments self-concept and continuity.
  • Explore how meaning-making supports identity integration.
  • Explore the development of false selves and survival-based personas
  • Understand how trauma disrupts identity formation across the lifespan.
  • Learn how identity collapse emerges in unsafe family systems.
  • Recognise the tension between authentic self and survival self.
  • Recognise how trauma shapes beliefs, values, and self-perception.
  • Consider how relational disconnection fuels identity disruption.
  • Examine the role of shame in reinforcing distorted identity.
  • Connect identity repair with resilience, belonging, and self-worth.

Course 4- Bowen Family Systems Theory

Examine Bowen’s 8 Core Concepts and their value in understanding identity and family patterns shaped by trauma.
Course includes 37 slides
  • Learn differentiation of self as balancing autonomy and connection.
  • Explore emotional triangles and family stabilisation patterns.
  • Understand nuclear family emotional systems in trauma context.
  • Recognise projection and its role in passing down trauma.
  • Examine emotional cut-off and its impact on identity repair.
  • Learn how multigenerational transmission shapes family dynamics.
  • Consider sibling position and its influence on self-perception.
  • Explore societal emotional process as an extension of family reactivity.
  • Recognise anxiety as the driver of family dysfunction.
  • Apply practical tools – infographics, genograms, and Bradshaw’s insights.

Complete CPtsd Trauma and Identity Series Outline

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💻 Learning That Fits Real Life ➡️

Accessible. Practical. Designed for the trauma-trained mind.

Because true recovery requires integration, not just information.

Your course access includes:

  • 24/7 online learning that fits your daily rhythm

  • Immediate access to all six modules

  • Printable resources, client-ready visuals, and worksheets

  • Experiential exercises that turn theory into transformation

Trauma-trained learning means the education process mirrors the healing process — gradual, safe, and built for integration.

🌱 Free Weekly Supervision & Study Space

Free weekly supervision is included with your course enrolment.
You’re welcome to come along each week - to study, ask questions, or simply sit in community.

Supervision provides a safe, supportive environment to:

  • Deepen your NeuroSynqt™ and CPtsd understanding

  • Develop reflective practice and professional confidence

  • Receive real-time discussion and mentorship

  • Reconnect with the “why” behind your work

📍 Access your Supervision Module inside your student account - it explains the schedule, what’s included, and how supervision supports your professional growth and personal integration.

💬 “No one heals in isolation - we heal through safe, structured connection.”

CPtsd Education

Six in-depth modules (Neuroscience, Recovery, Identity, Family Roles)

Extra CPtsd Information

8 Units of extra Complex Trauma information

Homework Canva Templates

Homework books, canva templates for clients ~ apply your own brand

Client Materials

9 Units of client materials for coaches. Professional infographics, diagrams, and client handouts.

Business Development

11 Business Units to help develop your coaching business

Extra Coaching Tools

7 Units of coaching tools. Lifetime access to all course updates and materials
Free Canva Course - Canva is used to complete Portfolio material (We also use pdf's)

🧠 The NeuroSynqt™ Difference

Connecting the mind, soul, and body for seamless integration

Adults with Complex PTSD have lived in trauma states for so long that dissociation, fragmentation, and survival scripts feel normal. Many do not recognise they are dissociating until explicitly taught how to begin reconnection and how to recognise that the brain is the driver.

Most models (polyvagal, IFS, bottom-up somatics) assume regulation is the starting point. In reality:

  • Regulation is not an entry point.

  • Regulation is a byproduct of integration.


Most recovery models focus on either emotion or behaviour.
NeuroSynqt™ is a brain-based, experiential recovery modality that uses side door entry points. Regulation is not forced; it emerges naturally as a consequence of integration. NeuroSynqt™ recognises that trauma lives deeper - in the brain’s survival patterns and identity systems that form long before language.

Developed by Linda Meredith, a peer reviewed, certified complex trauma educator, counsellor and coach, this neuroscience-based approach helps clients reconnect before regulation.

Dr Dan Siegel

"Every form of self regulation we've been able to look at -

  • regulating attention
  • regulating emotional affect
  • regulating mood
  • regulating thought
  • regulating physiology
  • regulating relationships
  • regulating behaviour
all those terms come under the broad term "Self Regulation"

Every aspect of regulation we could explore depends on integration of the brain"

Why Being Trauma-Trained Changes Everything

Beyond trauma-informed into truly brain-based care

Trauma-informed language is compassionate.
Trauma-trained practice is transformative.

Being trauma-trained means understanding:

  • How narcissistic patterns entangle with CPtsd survival mechanisms

  • Why clients appear “functional” but remain in trauma loops

  • How to build relational safety that rewires identity, not just regulates emotion

When we work with trauma through the brain - not just behaviour - change lasts.


📊 Grounded in Science, Guided by Humanity

Bringing research and lived experience together

Recent studies show:

  • 🧩 Up to 80% of adults raised by narcissistic or emotionally unavailable parents show symptoms consistent with complex trauma

  • 🩺 1 in 3 mental health professionals report moderate to severe burnout (APA, 2024)

  • 🧠 Neuroscience confirms that trauma impacts perception, not just emotion - changing how clients interpret safety, power, and connection

This course bridges clinical research with experiential recovery, giving professionals language that resonates with both the data and the heart.


Trauma Informed vs Trauma Trained

Meet your instructor

Linda Meredith


Passionate, Innovative, and Dedicated to
Complex Trauma Recovery


An Advanced, Neuroscience-Based Approach for Mental Health Professionals

Linda Meredith is an accredited trainer, counsellor, and creator of the NeuroSynqt™ modality for CPtsd recovery. Known as a Professional Brain Untangler, Linda combines advanced neuroscience, lived experience, and years of client practice to develop trauma-trained education that’s both practical and deeply human.

Her work has been peer-reviewed and accredited by trauma specialists, ensuring every course is grounded in professional standards as well as real-world application.

👉 Want to know more about Linda’s background, qualifications, and journey? Read Linda’s full story here ➜
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"Linda Meredith is a powerhouse at making complex trauma understandable and accessible. Her program is flexible, practical, and deeply supportive — allowing me to go at my own pace and truly engage with the material. What stands out is how the homework helps me embody the knowledge, not just memorise it. It’s sparked real ah-ha moments about how to support my clients more effectively. Linda’s generosity shines through everything she creates — from beautiful workbooks to business tools that make it easier to succeed as a coach. It honestly feels like she’s in my corner 24/7. This program is exactly what I needed. Thank you, Linda — you’re a gift. "
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"I don’t know if anyone else can resonate, but I’m so hungry for more critical information to better serve my coaching clients that I simply cannot get enough of the material Linda creates! The Complex Ptsd survivors around the world are so fortunate to have someone as amazing as Linda Meredith creating courses for helping professionals! The depth of the content and the support this course offers is PHENOMENAL! If you haven’t started taking the course and you are on the fence, I would HIGHLY recommend you take the leap and sign up

Thanks Linda for what you do!"
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“Linda has a warm, caring attitude with a sense of humour to boot about the effects of CPtsd on someone. Her insight, videos, articles, and support have helped me over humps and I have seen the effect it has had on others too. Linda speaks not only through her education, but also from her own experience. She understands what brings about CPtsd and how to help you address that trauma in a caring, kind, compassionate, and sometimes firm fashion. I highly recommend her if you are looking to heal from trauma you’ve experienced or even if you’re looking to understand more about the impact of CPtsd. Be kind, be understanding, and do yourself a favour and learn from Linda’s materials!.”

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🏆 Certification Pathway
The NeuroSynqt™ by Linda program offers some of the most practical and effective online education available in the complex trauma field. Rooted in neuroscience and trauma-trained practice, the program is designed specifically for professionals working with CPtsd and developmental trauma.

You can choose flexible pathways:

  • Individual Courses - like Core Unit 7, focusing deeply on identity repair
  • Full Certification - becoming a Master Practitioner of Complex Trauma Counselling, accredited globally and eligible for CEUs

This certification has been peer-reviewed and accredited by professionals in the trauma field, ensuring credibility and recognition worldwide.

Developed by Linda Meredith through years of study and application with both clients and her own recovery, the NeuroSynqt™ framework is a unique, brain-based approach that delivers results in real-world practice.

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