Trauma-informed, somatic, and culturally grounded education.
Trauma-informed, somatic, and culturally grounded education.
TIES
1 Course • 5 StudentsBiography
Ist’tłā (Wanda Wiwcharuck) is Tahltan and Gitxsan, a member of the Tsesk’iye (Crow) Clan, living and working on Ts’msyen Territory in Kxeen, Prince Rupert, BC.
She is a certified Trauma-Informed Coach, certified Somatic Coach, and has completed the Somatic EMDR Therapy Certificate Program. She is also a qualified BC educator with more than twenty years of experience in education and social development. She carries C-PTSD and brings thirty years of lived research alongside her formal training.
TIES was created to help helping professionals better understand and support people carrying complex trauma, especially those whose survival responses may have been misunderstood through frameworks that don’t fully account for the depth and complexity of what they have lived.
