Care & Compliance / Privacy

Traumaneutics® is a survivor-led learning and discipleship movement grounded in transparency, dignity, and presence.
This page gathers our ethical, legal, and safeguarding principles in one place so visitors can understand how we protect people, stories, and data. Traumaneutics® exists to hold presence with integrity. This page gathers the principles that protect everyone who engages here — contributors, visitors, and the work itself. Each statement below is both ethical and spiritual: a way of keeping the field safe for honest learning, not a legal wall. Consent is central; safety is mutual; transparency is our shared act of care.

‍Privacy Policy

‍No personal data are collected beyond basic visitor information processed by Webflow for security. Embedded media (SoundCloud, YouTube, etc.) only load after you click play; those services may set their own cookies—see their privacy pages. We do not store, sell, or share information. Contact: info@traumaneutics.com for any data questions.
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Cookies and Essential Functionality

‍This website uses only the cookies necessary for security and basic operation within Webflow.
We do not use analytics, advertising, or tracking technologies.
Embedded media such as SoundCloud or YouTube will set their own cookies only after you choose to play them.
By browsing this site, you agree to these essential cookies, which do not store personal information or track activity beyond this website.

‍Composite & Transparency

‍Some stories and images are composite—drawn from multiple real experiences to safeguard confidentiality while preserving truth.
This practice is transparent and deliberate; no material is fabricated. Each piece reflects genuine lived experience within the Traumaneutics community.

‍Digital Permanence

‍Traumaneutics® does not publish traceable personal stories, even with consent, because online material cannot be fully withdrawn from public archives.
This protects contributors from future re-identification and keeps confidentiality permanent.

Academic Integrity & Permissions

Traumaneutics® holds a living body of survivor-formed theology, research, and field reflection.
All writing, imagery, and training materials remain the intellectual and spiritual property of their authors.
Permission is required for reproduction, quotation beyond brief academic citation, or digital redistribution.
Our online materials are protected by copyright and by an llms.txt protocol that limits automated use of survivor-formed work.
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This boundary does not restrict ordinary research or study; it simply asks that engagement happens through relationship and consent rather than extraction.
For academic citation or collaborative inquiry, please contact heidi@traumaneutics.com.

The authorised Traumaneutics® description appears on our About / What Is Traumaneutics® page. It allows responsible citation while protecting survivor-formed work from reproduction or extraction. This ensures discoverability through presence, not possession.

‍Record-Keeping and Correspondence

‍We do not maintain long-term records, case notes, or email archives related to individual correspondence.
Written material can be subpoenaed; deleting it once practical matters are complete protects contributors and correspondents from future disclosure. Traumaneutics® is not a statutory or regulated service and holds no legal obligation to create or retain notes of conversations. This protects survivors and the movement from unintended involvement in legal proceedings.
Traumaneutics is a learning and discipleship movement, not a clinical service.

Age Guidance (18+)Traumaneutics® is intended for adults (18+).
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The themes explored here include trauma, recovery, and spiritual reflection, which require a level of maturity and self-awareness that develops with age.
Healing work for those under 18 belongs within the care of trained professionals and safeguarding structures designed specifically for young people.
Traumaneutics® offers reflective learning and spiritual accompaniment, not therapy or clinical treatment.
Setting this age boundary is an act of care — it protects young people from material not created for them, and it protects the integrity of this space for those engaging as adults in reflective learning. Within that same spirit of care and clarity, our scope of practice is defined below.

Scope of Practice

‍Traumaneutics® accompanies survivors through learning, discipleship, and presence; it does not provide clinical or therapeutic treatment.
We hold no identifiable records or clinical data and therefore cannot be required to participate in care-plan reviews, case conferences, or legal proceedings.
We affirm the value of good psychiatric and psychological care and collaborate through referral and education, not shared records or professional testimony.

‍Facial Anonymity & Safeguarding

‍Facial anonymity is maintained for the founder and contributors as part of safeguarding practice.
In some forms of interpersonal or domestic violence, intermediaries can be targeted or used to re-establish contact with survivors.
By keeping identifying images offline, Traumaneutics breaks potential chains of connection that could lead to harm—safety before visibility, presence before platform.

We choose to share stories through voice and sound rather than video.
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This protects the anonymity and long-term dignity of survivors. Video fixes a moment in time, but informed consent is a living, relational process. A person who feels free to show their face today may find their situation different in ten years. Once a face is published, consent can’t evolve with them.
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By refusing the theatre of visibility, we safeguard relationship and allow consent to remain flexible, mutual, and continuous. We also recognise that trauma can create patterns of people-pleasing or quick agreement. Someone in recovery may say yes when they mean no, and that is still welcome here.
Our formats—audio, written reflection, and art—honour contribution without pressure, protecting presence without performance.

‍Safeguarding of Adults

‍Traumaneutics® aligns with the UK Care Act 2014 principles of adult safeguarding as ethical guidance.
We are not a regulated health or social-care provider under UK law.
We act proportionally and transparently when someone is at risk of harm, neglect, or abuse and refer to statutory services when necessary.

‍Legal Protection & Survivors’ Agency

We do not publish traceable survivor stories or images because online visibility could compromise future legal proceedings or safety.
This policy preserves survivors’ legal agency and protects Traumaneutics from being drawn into investigations, ensuring the platform remains a learning and spiritual resource rather than a testimonial archive.

Protection from Future Data Misuse

‍Traumaneutics® recognises emerging risks of algorithmic profiling and data misuse.
Safeguarding means anticipating future harms by minimising data collection and digital identifiers now.
Protecting survivors includes protecting their future.

‍International Note

‍Traumaneutics® is based in the United Kingdom and follows UK data-protection law (UK GDPR & PECR).
We recognise visitors from many countries and uphold standards that meet or exceed comparable international privacy and safeguarding requirements.
Non-UK visitors may contact us for clarification.
Traumaneutics operates as a learning and discipleship movement, not a clinical or legal entity.

The following ethical statements express the values that inform every privacy and safeguarding decision within Traumaneutics®.

Ethics Statements:
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Witness without Theatre
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Traumaneutics® speaks from within trauma through emotion, reaction, and reflection rather than detailed recounting of events.
This honours trauma as what remains after the event, not as spectacle, and models embodied honesty without exposure.
At times, aspects of the founder’s lived experience may be shared deliberately for teaching or contextual understanding, always with discernment and in service of the wider community’s learning, not personal disclosure.

‍Boundaries of Care
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Traumaneutics® honours confidentiality within the limits of law and safety.
Information may be shared without notice if there is an immediate risk of harm to self or others, or if disclosure relates to terrorism, serious violence, or statutory safeguarding obligations involving a child or vulnerable adult.
We believe transparency about these limits builds trust rather than erodes it.

Traumaneutics® is not a clinical, medical, or therapeutic service. All safeguarding decisions are made within a non-clinical, presence-led framework that prioritises dignity, agency, and safety.

Distinguishing Risk to Self from Risk to Others

‍Traumaneutics® recognises a vital safeguarding difference between suicidal ideation, suicidal intent, and actions that endanger others. Not all distress is danger. And not all crisis requires escalation.

Relational Safeguarding

‍Traumaneutics® distinguishes between crisis and danger. When someone expresses suicidal thoughts, despair, or emotional overwhelm, we respond relationally.
We remain with the person, hold presence, and include them in all conversations about safety and support. Preserving agency is part of preserving dignity.

‍When Confidentiality May Be Overridden

‍Confidentiality is only broken without prior notification when a person’s intended method would place others at immediate risk — for example, actions involving vehicles, public spaces, or any method where another life could reasonably be harmed. In these rare and clearly defined situations, we may escalate immediately to protect life.

Our Posture

‍Expressions of despair or self-harm are met with presence, not panic. We include the person in conversations about safeguarding wherever possible. We act without notification only where there is a credible and immediate risk to others. Safeguarding is relational first, procedural second. This distinction protects dignity, honours agency, and ensures safety for all.

Community Confidentiality Agreement
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Traumaneutics® digital gatherings are spaces of mutual trust.
We do not record, screenshot, or save written or spoken material without consent.
This protects everyone’s privacy and safety and keeps conversation relational rather than archival.

We take confidentiality seriously. All images used on this site have been edited to protect the anonymity of survivors. The narratives and reflections on this site are written from real encounters within the Traumaneutics field. Each story holds the essence of what happened while safeguarding those involved—details are changed, composites woven, and no individual is ever named or directly quoted. Photographs on this site come from real Traumaneutics field training. All faces and identifying features have been editted to protect privacy, and no image is used to identify or single out any individual. Pictures serve only to communicate the atmosphere of learning and presence, never personal experience or trauma. Traumaneutics does not store personal data about survivors or contributors. Encounters are held through presence and relationship rather than records. Any teaching or written material is anonymised and composite.

Accessibility statement
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Traumaneutics® is committed to accessibility. If you experience difficulty using this site or require information in an alternative format, please contact us.

Contact & Enquiries

For privacy or safeguarding enquiries, contact info@traumaneutics.com. For general movement enquiries, contact heidi@traumaneutics.com

The lawful basis for processing minimal technical data (such as IP addresses used for security) is legitimate interest in maintaining website security and functionality.

Visitor data processed automatically by Webflow is retained only for as long as required for security and performance, then automatically deleted.

Third-party services currently used: Webflow (hosting & security), SoundCloud, and YouTube (embedded media). Each has its own privacy policy.
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Last updated: [November 2025]

Additional Policies (for future features)

‍As Traumaneutics expands—e.g., newsletters, analytics, or online courses—this page will include any new privacy or safeguarding details.

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Further Reading — When Care Becomes Compliance

‍These reflections below describe the wrestle behind our safeguarding and privacy framework: how presence can survive bureaucracy, and why every policy on this site was written as an act of care.