the Trauma Counseling Center of Los Angeles. In 2013 she founded the Truitt Institute to provide cutting-edge training, courses, and workshops that bring together the newest advancements in the fields of neuroscience and mental health. Dr. Kate is the founder of the NeuroTriad Model and Brain Partnership framework, integrative neuroscience frameworks that synthesize contemporary research on affective neuroscience, psychophysiology, interoception, and learning-dependent neuroplasticity. Her work examines how traumatic stress and chronic threat exposure alter neural circuits involved in threat detection, affect regulation, executive functioning, and relational safety, and how these systems can be reorganized through experience-dependent interventions that support long-term recovery and adaptive resilience.

Dr. Kate’s work focuses on how traumatic stress and chronic threat exposure affect core neurocognitive systems responsible for threat detection, affect regulation, interoception, and adaptive functioning. Her applied framework integrates contemporary research on neuroplasticity, affective neuroscience, and psychophysiology to elucidate how survival-based neural networks can become entrenched and how they can be reorganized through systematic, experience-dependent processes. This approach aligns with converging research on trauma’s impacts on brain function and structure, and the role of learning-dependent neural change in recovery (e.g., neuroplastic adaptations following stress-related neural sensitization).

Dr. Truitt is the international bestselling author of Healing in Your Hands: Self-Havening Exercises to Harness Neuroplasticity, Heal Traumatic Stress, and Build Resilience and her memoir Keep Breathing: A Psychologist’s Intimate Journey Through Loss, Trauma, and Rediscovering Life, integrating personal narrative with neuroscientific insight. She is also the author of the Brain Partnership Toolbox for Addiction, Mental Health, & Trauma Treatment Professionals, a neuroscience-informed resource designed to translate core concepts of brain regulation and adaptive resilience into clinician-accessible tools for professional practice, leadership, and self-care. The Toolbox supports professionals in rewiring survival-based stress patterns and partnering effectively with their own neural processes to foster regulation, agency, and compassionate leadership in trauma-exposed fields.

Across her professional contributions, Dr. Truitt emphasizes mechanisms by which the human nervous system can be engaged and shaped through intentional, science-based practice, moving beyond symptom management toward sustainable neural and functional recovery. Her presentations are distinguished by their methodological clarity, integration of peer-reviewed neuroscience, and direct applicability to mental health practice, professional education, and trauma-informed systems transformation.

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