Academic Family Health Team

Sunnybrook Academic Family Health Team is facilitating a group workshop aimed to help support adult patients who have experienced past childhood trauma or adverse childhood experiences (distressing events that caused physical or emotional harm or neglect between 0-18 years old). In this workshop, we will focus on learning about the impacts of trauma, identify the symptoms of trauma and develop new coping strategies to help manage trauma symptoms (i.e. overwhelming emotions, anxiety, depression, numbing, dissociation, flashbacks, etc). This workshop is built upon Women’s College Hospital trauma therapy program.

Please note: this is not a group for processing and sharing the details of an individual’s trauma history.

Dates: Mondays, June 30 to August 25, 2025 (8 weeks)
Time: 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm each session
Location: at Sunnybrook Campus Room A1-21
This is an in-person workshop - masking may be required if
policy changes at time of workshop

• Week 1 (June 30) -Trauma & Recovery
• Week 2 (July 7) – Neurobiology of Trauma
• Week 3 (July 14) – Trauma & Emotional Regulation
• Week 4 (July 21) – Trauma & Responding to Triggers
• Week 5 (July 28) – Trauma & CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy)
• Week 6 (Aug 11) – Trauma & Boundaries
• Week 7 (Aug 18) – Trauma Re-enactments

Who Can Attend: SAFHT patients 21 years of age and over who have experienced childhood trauma. All interested participants will be screened and assessed for readiness for this group.

To register: If you are interested, please contact Tom Nguyen at [email protected] to move on to the next steps of the screening process