FROM THE WORLD OF COACHES AND STUDENTS

+350 TRAINED COACHES 

Already in 2024, the first cohort of basic-level TraumaNeuro coaches graduated, among them: Tanja Sipilä – @neurotransformation_by_tanja, Saija Viljakainen, Inga Söder.

The TraumaNeuro Method Coach Training was updated in 2025 into the TraumaNeuro Transformation Coach Training.

The coaches below are upgrading this foundation-level training, or have already graduated:

- As advanced-level Transformation Coaches ♡

SUCCESS STORY  

"Nothing was really wrong — but nothing felt right either.


Life felt heavy, sticky, repetitive.

I had been the good one, doing my best,
trying to heal myself and grow spiritually.
And yet, there was always this quiet emptiness inside — a feeling of being unseen, invisible.

I had never even heard of emotional trauma, or how the body carries the pain of generations before us.

When I first heard about it through Susanna,
my mind truly exploded.
And when I realized that this script —
my life — could actually be rewritten,
the best journey of my life began.

I found joy.
Power.
Peace.
My dream work.

If you’re wondering whether you should…
yes. You absolutely should. 💫

- Anne Sydänpelto  

TraumaNeuro Coach

THE REAL DEAL 

Explore our students’ mid-term reflections, transformations, and experiences.

The mid-term assessments are designed to support each student’s personal process — not to measure or grade, but to offer a moment of pause, reflection, and deepening integration.

Each mid-term is completed with the help of TraumaNeuro Student Support GPT, personally trained by Susanna.

And yes — anyone can use GPT! For many of our students, it has become a trusted companion on their journey. ✨

SUCCESS STORY  

My whole life has completely changed.
I’m in awe. I can’t even grasp it — is this really me? 


Like a constant stream, the pieces keep falling into place.

This process! Susanna, how do you even do this?
I love it. I crave it.

There are no words to describe this transformation — or life itself, really. There’s a new light in my eyes, and I’m radiant.

I’m connected — to myself, to everything — and it no longer feels overwhelming.

I’m enjoying every single moment.💫 

 

Kaiju Savukoski  TraumaNeuro Coach

I started Susanna’s TraumaNeuro Coach Training last spring — not really knowing what I was getting into.

Well… actually, I did know a lot.
I had already worked with my developmental trauma — in therapy, through somatic work, even with psychedelic-assisted processes.
And still, I was in so much pain.

My heart hurt. 💔

I had gone so deep into my soul’s pain
that there was only one way deeper than that.

I joined the training thinking I’d just get a “title,”
so I could start helping others —
hoping maybe that would distract me from my own pain.

Little did I know!
This training is absolutely insane!

In just four months, I’ve been able to melt, soften, and come home to myself — my beautiful, vulnerable, authentic self — and I’ve realized that this is the power I’ve needed to live a life free from pain.

And by pain, I mean anxiety, fear, worry, distress — even terror, or that deep hatred, judgment, jealousy toward everything and everyone.

I’ve felt all of that, because I was missing
what had always been meant for me:
my own life — and the permission to be me. ❤️

And I’m not even halfway through the training yet.
I’m still at the beginning — and already, I’ve received so much
that words can hardly describe it. ❤️‍🔥

Niina, TraumaNeuro opiskelija

"I can't belive this is so amazing! Thank you🥰

I just attended the Reborn to Remember webinar,
and I have to say — I was in the right place at exactly the right time!

I’ve spent 30 years working on myself, trying to heal from a traumatic childhood.

Last year I completed a wellness coach training, but I felt lost — the next steps weren’t clear, because my own inner work was still so unfinished

Now it feels like I’m finally receiving the keys from you,
the ones that unlock the doors that have kept me trapped
for almost my entire life —
and life itself has often felt like a stage play.

Thank you for that — and for the beautiful moments of connection with you. 🥰 - Sirkka Siirtola

Experiences from the Practice

From the Heart

Pure Love

I couldn't believe the answer could be found in me — in my own body!

I used to wonder:
Why is it so hard to be me?
Why did it feel like there was a glass wall between me and life itself?

I moved through life as if in a fog, guided by some inner programming.
I didn’t even really know myself — and yet I kept trying to survive, to be good, to hold it all together.

Back then, I never would have believed
that calming my chronically activated nervous system
and working with the suppressed memories and emotions stored in my body could change my life so radically.

Today, my body signals safety —
to myself and to the world around me.
Through the vagus nerve, peace and a sense of safety flow from my body to my brain — no more alarms.

This isn’t magic or a miracle —
it’s neurobiology, made possible through TraumaNeuro work.

I’ve found my way back to my own power —
and now I’m creating my life from an entirely new place,
meeting more and more of my true self every day.

We all deserve that —
a life created from safety. 💕

And my journey continues —
I keep discovering new layers in this nervous system work,
deeper connections to myself,
and gentler ways of being me.

 

Jenni Rantalainen TraumaNeuro Coach

"This understanding and skill —
I’ll be grateful for it for the rest of my life.

The most important thing I’ve learned from Susanna
is that real trauma work isn’t about being able to explain what happened to you.

It’s about letting your body finally metabolize what it still carries —
and complete what was once left unfinished."

Hanna 

Vibes from new Somatic Pleasure Journey members

"Embodied safety feels like heaven compared to living in a constant state of emergency."

I never want to let go of it again.
It feels wonderful to be me — just as I am. 🩷

Joining the TraumaNeuro Training has profoundly changed my life over the past two years.
I’m now calmer and more at peace in almost everything I do.

I live free from pain and tension — and it feels unbelievably good.
Meeting people no longer makes me anxious; I’m more confident and self-assured than ever before.

Even when I drive, the former “restless driver” in me has turned into a calm one —
road rage is completely gone.

Fear has been replaced by trust.
Thanks to this training, I no longer feel those sharp hits in my chest,
no matter what’s happening around me.
I stay calm and relaxed,
and I can often see beyond people’s harshness or gossip —
understanding the pain that lies beneath.

I’ve found understanding and self-compassion.
And I now see how fragile a human being is without them —
because I used to be that person,
living in a chronic state of survival.

That state was not truly living.
But back then, I thought that’s just how life was.
Only when you’re free from it
do you realize how completely different life can be.

Grateful — and free.

Satu K. TraumaNeuro Coach

💛

I warmly recommend this training! 


We all carry trauma in our bodies - and it cannot be processed through thought alone. But with these practices, real change truly becomes possible.

For some time, I had felt that maybe I wasn’t as capable of regulating my emotions and reactions in certain situations as I had thought.

Old thought patterns were still lingering, casting shadows over an otherwise meaningful life.

Quite soon after the training began,
I realized that my nervous system had been overloaded and overstimulated.

From the very start, I received practical, real tools for nervous system regulation.

My biggest realization has been this: I can influence the state of my own nervous system — I can be “behind the wheel” in my own life.

Simple breathing and pendulation exercises have helped me pause in daily life and interrupt old, harmful reaction loops.

This has brought me peace of mind, because I now know how to face challenging moments without shutting down.

I’ve also found the courage to look at experiences in my relationships from new perspectives.

I had already done a lot of personal work through various studies before,

but this training was completely different — practical, concrete, and holistic in the way it truly integrates the body–mind connection.

Susanna as a teacher is warm, genuine, and feels like a friend walking right beside you, holding your hand. 💛

Laura Braz, TraumaNeuro Student.

 

 

 

 

Experiences from the Reborn to Remember Workshop...

Thank you for your heartfelt approach!


Even though the Polyvagal Theory is familiar from my own work, you managed to present it in a new and gentle way.

Saara 

 

I didn’t believe this could really help me, even though my sister recommended it — but I was wrong. 

I opened the door to a completely new world, and now I almost wish I had known about this earlier.

It would have saved me from so much.

 Anita 

An excellent, research-based training —and perfectly suited for men, too. Thank you!

 
Jarkko

The nervous system connected everything I'd learned

Piia Vartiainen
Integrative Psychotherapist
 

❝ In my experience, TraumaNeuro Method creates a sense of safety and connection in the body that a person has never experienced before.

This breaks the old cycles and shifts us from a state of survival into a state of aliveness.

I'm an Integrative Psychotherapist by training, and I want to share what the TraumaNeuro coach training has given me — both for my work and for my personal life.

The understanding that connected everything

Professionally, understanding how the nervous system works and how it's regulated has tied together everything I'd learned.

It's been knowledge that wasn't part of my psychotherapy training.

We were taught about developmental trauma, schema modes (emotional schemas), mentalization, mindfulness and so on — but the whole embodied understanding of all of this was missing. 

What changed in my work as a therapist

The TraumaNeuro training has given me a wonderful understanding of the intergenerational transfer of burden behind developmental trauma, and especially of its effects on how the nervous system functions.

Of how these formed schemas — the repeating patterns of thought and behavior — show up in the body, and why such powerful patterns get built into a person: the avoidant and overcompensating modes, for instance, that are so hard to break with talk therapy alone.

I began to understand these patterns more deeply by grasping their core: how emotional neglect, the trauma of abandonment, creates in childhood a survival threat that is stored in the body and the nervous system (a neurobiological response).

Now I look at people's patterns of thought, emotion and behavior always through this lens.

 

❝ With what I learned in the TraumaNeuro coach training, I notice myself constantly growing toward my true self and my potential, as the experience of safety in the body grows stronger.

I now understand how the root cause of over-performing, people-pleasing and perfectionism lies in childhood — when a child didn't receive unconditional love, but had to adapt to their parent in order to survive.

These patterns then operate deep in the body and nervous system in adulthood too, and even when a person understands this intellectually, they can't change them.

In my experience, the TraumaNeuro method, through the means of nervous-system regulation, makes it possible to create in the body an experience of safety and connection that the person has never felt before, and this breaks those patterns, and the person moves from a state of surviving into a state of living.

All of this has been astonishing to understand and to witness in the therapy process.

Now I know how to guide clients to hold difficult emotions.

It's completely pointless to expect a client to be able to do presence exercises and to mentalize if the nervous system isn't regulated and stabilized, and they don't have the capacity to hold their emotions.

For myself, this has also meant the ability to regulate myself as a therapist, so that I stay steady and safe.

With this, the risk of burnout decreases, boundaries stay clear, and I don't tumble too far into the other person's emotion.

I've also learned not to "give too much," so that I don't take away the client's own opportunity to grow.

In the face of the setbacks life brings, I've been able to hold and keep space for grief, among other feelings, on a whole different level.

My own boundaries have grown stronger too.

And this is just a small part of everything I've learned.

The learning has been, above all, a deep, personal, embodied process that has turned my whole way of living completely around — into living as an embodied, feeling human being, not merely a human being thinking inside their head.

I'm grateful that intuition guided me to this training!

The nervous-system model of people is in urgent need of a renovation — from a state of surviving into a state of living — and I hope I'll soon get to spread this good news myself in my own online coaching!

Susanna has created something truly magnificent!

 Piia Vartiainen, Integrative Psychotherapist

"A few years ago, I wasn’t sure I’d still be here."


Actually — even just a few months ago.
I wasn’t supposed to live long enough to finish middle school, let alone see this day — my 17th birthday.

Even last autumn, I still believed that the grave was where I belonged.

But now… the thought of dying tomorrow feels terrifying.
And that’s such a new and beautiful feeling for me — because since I was about 10 or 11 years old, I’ve wanted to disappear.

And yet — somehow — the person I once doubted, wondering if she was even for real, has become one of the most important and meaningful people in my entire life.

Someone I deeply respect.
Someone who has changed everything for me.

The first person, after my mom, who ever told me out loud that I could become something — something more than a doormat.

The first person who’s given me the real experience of safety, love, and presence. The first person I’ve never been afraid of.

Sometimes I still wonder if I’m dreaming — if life can really feel like this.

I’ve never before seen myself as valuable.

I never knew what it felt like to truly know that I’m not alone, that I’m loved, that I matter.

Now I know. And I can feel it.

Thank you, Susanna —
you gave me back my will to live. 🩷

Maria 17 TraumaNeuro Student

Experiences from the Practice

From the Heart

Pure Love