Complex Trauma WA Inc.

In addition to carefully curated resources relevant to complex trauma, the COTWA website (www.complextraumawa.org.au) features an online service directory resource (referred to as the COTWA Spatial Directory ) and an accessible onestop hub of curated information relevant to complex trauma for survivors, their loved ones, and professionals in WA. The COTWA Spatial Directory differs from all other mentalhealth service directories currently available. It will fill a muchneeded gap for survivors of childhood abuse and neglect and the people who care about them: The Directory was designed with input from people with a history of complex trauma. It is traumainformed in its design and meets many of the needs survivors have indicated they seek when choosing a trauma therapist. Practitioners approved for inclusion on the COTWA Spatial Directory are not selfassessed psychotherapists claiming expertise in working with complex trauma. The training and experience of every clinician on the COTWA Spatial Directory have been independently assessed by Blue Knot Foundation, Australia s National Centre of Excellence for complex trauma. Referrers and survivors can, therefore, trust that clinicians listed on the COTWA Spatial Directory are traumainformed, competent, and experienced clinicians who meet bestpractice guidelines for evidencebased treatments in traumaspecific clinical expertise.