Mission
• To identify local practitioners in conflict areas of the world who are dedicated to healing the complex trauma of their communities, but who lack opportunities for training through government, academia, or international NGOs.
• To travel to conflict areas to collaborate with local practitioners on the development and refinement of culturally-based ways of treating complex trauma.
• To bring two practitioners per year from conflict areas to Olympia to share with them how practitioners in the United States treat complex trauma and to learn what they have found successful in their home countries.
• To improve our local practitioners’ knowledge and understanding of how to treat complex trauma.
• To increase the Olympia community’s understanding of diverse cultures through exposure to practitioners from conflict areas of the world.
• To create liaisons between the Olympia community and conflict areas of the world.

Vision
To develop an international community of practitioners skilled in the art of creating culturally appropriate treatment protocols for complex trauma.

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Values

Those who have been unable to prevent being traumatized often lose confidence in their ability to avoid further trauma. Practitioners who attempt to educate colleagues in less-developed nations can inadvertently reinforce, if not further undermine, that lack of confidence. Thus, well-meaning efforts may result in the inability to treat effectively.

ITTP believes that every culture has its own innate ways of treating trauma, however undefined as psychological theory and technique. Just as we in the West base treatments on elaborations of everyday interactions, so can practitioners in every culture. Thus, we collaborate rather than indoctrinate. We believe that collegiality and community with practitioners worldwide are the basis for improved treatment both at home and abroad.