About Us

ATSS is an international organization dedicated to serving the needs of professionals working with the traumatized.

Our members benefit from networking, resource linkage, and certification.

ATSS offers three certifications:

  1. Certified Trauma Specialist for those involved in ongoing individual/group work;
  2. Certified Trauma Services Specialist for those who provide crisis intervention;
  3. Certified Trauma Responder to those providing posttraumatic stress reduction groups/interventions.

Certifications entitle members to be recognized as having met a rigorous standard of educational and experiential requirements in the field of trauma provision.


Read our Mission here

View our Board of Directors here

Association of Traumatic Stress Specialists