After enduring decades of trauma as both a child and adult, Bobbi struggled with depression, disability and homelessness – bouncing in and out of psychiatric wards seven different times. As she tried to get help within the mental health system she was labeled as a “difficult patient” because she didn’t improve in the retraumatizing non-trauma informed hospitals and clinics who treated her. After deciding to try to help trauma survivors more compassionately and with her lived experience, her graduate school program told her she had “no potential to contribute to the field” due to her mental health struggles. It took her two decades to shed that belief because it so accurately mirrored what her childhood and adult abusers taught her. But in 2017 she founded The International Association of Trauma Recovery Coaching, which has trained more than 600 Trauma Recovery Coaches around the world, disrupting the Western mental health model’s current treatment of trauma survivors. Over the past five years Bobbi has written and developed five different coaching certification programs where more than 90% of the students entering the coursework are trauma survivors themselves. The Association has the only Code of Ethics, Safety Protocols and Supervision for Trauma Recovery Coaches worldwide.
Bobbi maintains a successful coaching practice using Internal Family Systems, Trauma Informed Stablization and HeartMath in service of both individuals and couples with trauma histories.
She is also well versed in Religious and Spiritual Trauma, which informed the writing of her book Creating Your Personal Sacred Text. It teaches a unique writing process that supports individuals developing a spiritual practice to define and celebrate their personal beliefs.
As a queer, neurodivergent mental health provider who has had her own mental health struggles, Bobbi also speaks out against marginalization and her own experience of being "othered" outside the mainstream Western Mental Health Community.
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