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.
Project Trauma Support Shares Trauma Recovery Knowledge in Ukraine
Project Trauma Support extends sincere thanks to everyone who donated and supported our recent initiative in Ukraine. Project Trauma Support and Ukrainian-Canadian project materials are displayed during the Ukraine training session. Thanks [...]
The Brotherhood Project Golf Tournament Supports Project Trauma Support
Project Trauma Support extends sincere thanks to The Brotherhood Project for their generous donation and support through their First Annual Brotherhood Project Golf Tournament. Devon Reed, founder of [...]
Building Resilience on the Front Line
A One-day Retreat Hosted by Project Trauma Support Sponsored by a grant from The Perth and District Community Foundation When: Saturday June 20th Where: Tay River Reflections 279 Canal Bank Road, Perth Coffee and [...]
The dangerous allure of suicide
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 [...]
The Black Dog of Depression
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 [...]
Understanding Anxiety
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 [...]
Impact of Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy
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., [...]
Website Updated
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 [...]
Advance Force Operation
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.
2027 Perth Polar Plunge
❄️ 2027 Perth Polar Plunge ❄️ Take the leap. Feel the cold. Make a difference. Register. Donate. Plunge.
Brian’s Remembrance Poem
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.
Helping Ukraine
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
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.
A Novel Approach to Mitigating Operational Stress
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
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 [...]
Recharge and Re-Engage
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 [...]
Ronin
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: The Psychedelic Journey
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 [...]
What Veterans have taught me about love
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 [...]
Funding Request
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 [...]
