The "Ethics of Healing" Series

The Ethics of Healing - A Let Us Heal Series is an advanced professional training for mental health professionals working with trauma survivors across complex systems of care. While most clinicians are trained to treat symptoms, far fewer are prepared to recognize, prevent, and repair the systemic harm that often follow trauma, including misdiagnosis, institutional betrayal, re-traumatization, and ethical injury.

This multi-course program integrates trauma neuroscience, ethical psychology, survivor-centered practice, documentation ethics, and systems accountability into a unified learning experience. Participants examine how legal, medical, educational, forensic, and digital systems can unintentionally replicate harm—and how psychologists can ethically intervene to mitigate risk and restore dignity, even when systems cannot be changed.

Don't miss any of the "Ethics of Healing" Series:

Part 1: Trauma Neuroscience & Survivor Experience
Part 2 (this course): Systemic Re-Tramatization
Part 3: (Live) Thursday, July 30
Part 4: (Live) Friday, July 31
Part 5: (Live) Monday, August 3
Part 6: (Live) Tuesday, August 4

This Course

Ethical psychology is not only about what happens in the room. It is about what we normalize, what we document, what we enforce, and what we choose not to question. When systems harm survivors, ethics demands more than neutrality—it demands courage.

This Course examines how psychological harm is perpetuated not only through interpersonal trauma, but through the very systems meant to provide care, protection, and justice. Designed for licensed clinicians and advanced mental health professionals, the course frames systemic re-traumatization as a central ethical concern—one that emerges through policies, procedures, institutional culture, and professional silence rather than overt misconduct.

Participants explore institutional betrayal, procedural harm, and epistemic injustice—the ways survivors are discredited, misunderstood, or erased as knowers of their own experience within clinical and institutional settings. Drawing from trauma psychology, ethics, and philosophy of knowledge, the course expands ethical responsibility beyond the therapy room to include documentation, organizational participation, and systems-level decision-making.

Using real-world cases from healthcare, courts, schools, and correctional environments, the module demonstrates how unexamined policy adherence can replicate powerlessness, coercion, and moral injury. Clinicians leave equipped with practical frameworks to identify ethical risk, challenge harmful norms, and use professional influence to reduce systemic harm—while remaining aligned with ethical standards and legal mandates.

This course positions psychologists not only as clinicians, but as ethical actors within systems—capable of either reinforcing institutional trauma or interrupting it.

This training can be taken both as a part 2 of a series or as a standalone course.

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