About Us

Empowering Change Through Brain Partnership

The Truitt Institute is a global leader in neuroscience-integrated, trauma-informed training and education. Founded by clinical psychologist and neuroscientist Dr. Kate Truitt, the Institute is built on a foundational belief: the brain is not broken—it’s adaptive, powerful, and ready for change.

Through the NeuroTriad Model and Brain Partnership™ framework, the Truitt Institute empowers individuals, professionals, and communities with the tools to rewire trauma, regulate stress, and foster lifelong resilience. Every program is rooted in applied neuroscience, structured for immediate use, and designed to support real-life transformation.

Science-Backed. Human-Centered. Designed for Impact.

The Truitt Institute’s work spans across sectors—mental health, leadership, education, caregiving, and community care—with a single throughline: healing and growth are possible when people are equipped with tools that actually work.

Each offering draws from the NeuroTriad Model, a three-part framework that integrates trauma-informed care, resilience science, and empowerment strategies through the lens of brain-based collaboration. This is what the Institute calls Brain Partnership™—the practice of working with the brain to create sustainable change, rather than against it.

• Healing in Your Hands: Self-empowerment tools for emotional regulation and everyday resilience. Rooted in neuroscience, these accessible exercises—such as CPR for the Amygdala®, the Emotions Thermometer, and mindful touch—are designed to support nervous system regulation and personal healing.
• Brain Partnership Leadership Programs: Executive and organizational trainings that bring neuroscience into leadership. Leaders and teams learn how to create psychologically safe cultures, reduce burnout, and lead with clarity in high-stress systems.
• Community Resilience Programs: Scalable, science-backed initiatives for schools, nonprofits, peer networks, and first responders. These programs train helping professionals to apply accessible neuroscience tools in service of collective healing and empowerment—especially within underserved and neurodiverse communities.
• Professional Clinical Trainings & Certification: Advanced training for licensed mental health professionals in the Trauma Integration Protocols (TIPs) and Neuro-Empowerment Protocols (NEPs). These protocols equip clinicians to work safely and effectively with traumatic stress, narrative re-authoring, and post-traumatic growth. The flagship NeuroTriad Certification recognizes clinical mastery in applied neuroscience and trauma-informed care.

The Truitt Institute is not just an educational organization—it’s a movement. With more than 200,000 global followers and over 4 million readers and viewers, the Institute’s reach spans international platforms including the United Nations, the U.S. Department of Defense, the BBC, and classrooms, clinics, and boardrooms around the world.

Its mission is simple but bold: To democratize access to brain-based healing and resilience tools so that individuals and systems everywhere can thrive.

Dr. Kate Truitt is an internationally recognized clinical psychologist, neuroscientist, bestselling author, and expert in trauma, grief, stress, and post-traumatic growth. She is the creator of the NeuroTriad Model and Brain Partnership™ framework, as well as founder of the Truitt Institute and CEO of Dr. Kate Truitt & Associates.

Her work bridges rigorous scientific research with lived experience, and she has been widely recognized for her contributions to trauma healing, mental health equity, and resilience education. Dr. Truitt serves on advisory boards for organizations including MindUP, the Kevin Love Fund, and the Girl Scouts of America.

Her books, Healing in Your Hands (2022) and Keep Breathing (2024), blend scientific insight with deeply human storytelling, making the science of healing accessible to all.