Our Project Trauma Support news feed brings together stories, resources, and expert perspectives dedicated to mental health and trauma recovery. Explore content created to support those who serve, those who care for them, and those navigating their own healing journey.
It is said that suicide is the permanent solution to a temporary problem. When a person is feeling hopeless and comes to believe that their unbearably painful situation is never going to end, they [...]
Winston Churchill described Depression as the “black dog” that follows you everywhere. Churchill was one of the most famous people that was besieged by episodes of deep depression. This is indeed a sneaky [...]
Anxiety is a great thief. It can rob you of the most precious things. It can take away your peace of mind, your confidence and your sense of self It can steal away your [...]
Group Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy for Operational Stress Injuries in First Responders, Military Members, and Veterans: Observations from Participants, Families, and Mental Health Providers. Manuela Joannou M.D. CCFP (EM) FCFP, Markus Besemann CD1, B.Sc., [...]
If you’ve visited Project Trauma Support before, you’ll notice a refreshed look and improved navigation—but everything you relied on is still here. The original content remains available. What’s changed is how quickly and clearly [...]
This documentary produced by Gordon Hurley of All the Way Factory shows the novel and innovative path these men found to further their healing from service related traumatic injury. In doing so, they hope to light the way for others who are suffering so that they may explore these alternative pathways and to encourage further research and funding of psychedelic assisted psychotherapy.
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Don’t thank me for my service. Instead, remember us when we’re gone— carry on with honour strong, and live the life for which we bled.
Visit to Kyiv: Training Psychiatrists and Psychologists working with Ukrainian Veterans Dr. Manuela Joannou of Project Trauma Support recently provided a transformative two-day lecture series at the Humanitarian Institute of the National Defense University of [...]
Resilient leadership focuses on helping leaders stay grounded, manage emotional dynamics, and lead with calm, clarity, and conviction, especially in high-pressure or uncertain environments.
Peer Resilience Coaches: A Novel Approach to Mitigating Operational Stress Injuries within the Emergency Services and the Canadian Armed Forces We would like to introduce a new entity, the “Peer Resilience Coach” that works in [...]
Vision for a Comprehensive Mental Health Support System for First Responders and Military Members Manuela Joannou M.D. CCFP(EM)FCFP Medical Director, Service Injury Support Centre Founder, Project Trauma Support Military Members for a variety of [...]
Project Trauma Support is grateful to have received a grant from the J.P. Bicknell Foundation which allows us to offer this special program for First Responders and Military Members who are staying on the job [...]
Hey guys, While I was under the Ketamine, I saw a Samurai. In the jobs we all did we were brainwashed into thinking that in order to do this we had to be a certain [...]
Ketamine, like all psychedelics, is a vehicle that allows us to face our suffering and change our relationship to it. It can transport a person’s consciousness to another, more mystical realm where more liberal possibilities [...]
It has been said that soldiers fight mostly for love of their comrades in arms. As both a civilian and military physician, over the last 34 years I have heard hundreds of stories from the [...]
To those who share our concern for the mental health and wellbeing of our military members, veterans, first responders, and front-line health care workers, As you are likely aware, we are seeing an escalation in [...]
How does one regain peace of mind and joy for living when Post Traumatic Stress and Moral Injury have set in? We cannot go back in time and rewrite our histories. We cannot wipe out [...]
Download the research paper Download the research paper Abstract Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) amongst military, police, Royal Canadian Mounted Police and first responder personnel often includes a moral injury component. The Project Trauma [...]
When the first responder you love has been psychologically injured as a result of his or her service, you need to be prepared to weather the storm. Because the impact of their injury is going [...]
