Carrie Davidson laughing with open arms at a garden doorway

Meet your coach

Trauma recovery coaching, from a nurse who has been the patient.

I’m a registered nurse, certified trauma recovery coach, and author of Addicted to Trauma. I help people who can explain everything, and still repeat it, interrupt the pattern at its source: through the body, not around it.

BSPH, BSN, RN · Certified Trauma Recovery Coach · More about me →

The ARC process

Healing happens in an ARC.

Three stages, and this is the whole map. Everything I teach sits inside one of these three, whichever door you come through, so there is nothing else you need to learn before you start.

Awareness

See what’s true beneath the surface.

Regulation

Build capacity to stay present with what matters.

Creation

Act from alignment and create new outcomes.

How the Method works →

One method, three levels of support

Choose your door

Three containers for the same work. What changes is how much company you have while you do it.

If you already know the pattern and want my full attention, begin with the ARC Program. The cohort remains open when a lighter container is the honest fit.

Together

The Conscious Creation Cohort

$639 · six weeks live, ten people

Six weeks to name the pattern that costs you the most, learn the pause that stops it, and practice it live with nine people who get it. You leave with one loop you can interrupt on purpose.

See the cohort

Free, once a month

The Monthly Gathering

Free · 45 minutes on Zoom

A short teaching and an open room, once a month, with people who already understand the hard part.

See the Gathering

Every door stays open. Start small and go deeper whenever you’re ready.

Getting started is simple

  • Book a Call

    A free half hour, just to talk.

  • Get your plan

    We find the honest fit, even if it isn’t me.

  • Do the work, accompanied

    Weekly sessions. A nervous system learning something new.

Feel a piece of the work

Before you read another word, try one minute of it

The gentle pause

In for four, out for six, five rounds. Follow the circle with your belly, not your shoulders. This is the smallest version of what we practice together.

Press begin

Questions, answered plainly

Common questions

Is this the right fit for me?

It fits when you’re stable, you know your story, and it keeps repeating anyway. It isn’t the right season if you’re in acute crisis or need diagnosis or treatment first, because licensed care comes before coaching, and it isn’t a fit if you want the pattern named but not changed.

Is this therapy?

No. Therapy looks back to diagnose and treat. I work with the present pattern and what you build next: awareness, regulation, creation. I’m a registered nurse, not a therapist, and I refer out when someone needs clinical care. Many people do both, therapy for the wound and coaching for the pattern; coaching sits alongside therapy and doesn’t replace it.

What does the work look like week to week?

The work is weekly, whichever door you choose. In the ARC Program that means twelve sessions with me, support between them for the hard mid-week moments, and enough practice that you know what to reach for when the old loop starts. In the course and the cohort it means six weeks of short teachings and small practices, self-paced or live with a room around you.

What if I’m not ready for coaching yet?

Start free. Take the three-minute pattern quiz, download the Trauma Tree Workbook, or join the Sunday Letter. The Monthly Gathering is also free, online, and open to everyone. The door to the deeper work stays open, and there is no clock on it.

My work is LGBTQ+ affirming and inclusive of all identities and relationship structures. If you’re a therapist or clinician considering this work for someone you support, read the professional referral page →

Ready when you are.

Deciding slowly is allowed here.

Free, three minutes

Which pattern is running you?

Fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. Take the quiz and get your result, plus the first step that fits it, by email.

Take the 3-minute quiz