Trauma Focused Therapy helps identify a child's mental, behavioral, emotional, physical and spiritual well-being, being impacted by a traumatic experience. Understanding the link between the trauma and the child's emotional and behavioral response is the pivotal factor here. The aim is to teach a child skills and strategies to help foster understanding, process emotions and memories associated with traumatic events, thereby allowing the child to create a healthier and more adaptive meaning for the event that has occurred. This therapy is also for adults.

It can be helpful with various issues: