TRAUMA HEALING INSTITUTE

23 years of healing and hope

Our story is best told by the ones who receive healing. We continually receive reports like this one from a healing group participant who is a professor at the University of Camagüey in Cuba:

“A very special workshop…I had been carrying wounds for a long time without knowing how to resolve them (the death of my parents), and we received tools to channel them. The cross of Christ is the solution for everyone (although we knew it), but I didn’t know the process. Now I understand what I went through, and it prepares me to understand and help others. A blessing!!!”

Every story of healing you’ll encounter on this page reveals a life changed—together, our impact is real.

Our Mission

To help the Church address the effects of trauma, grief and loss with resources that integrate biblical and mental health principles.

2002-2025

THI’s ministry began as a workshop for pastors in central Africa to help them serve their congregations who had endured years of violent civil war. Today, THI’s robust catalog includes small group curricula for children, teens and adults, and special audiences like incarcerated people, refugees, and survivors of natural disasters. Trained facilitators lead groups in-person and online in 155 countries around the world.

We’ve also expanded over the years to offer crisis response resources and standalone tools in multiple formats and languages.

Ten million lives touched

Since 2002, our ministry has reached ten million people in 155 nations

Radio and TV programs in 33 languages

514,000 Participated in healing groups

59,000 Healing group facilitators equipped

This year

THI spent 2025 developing new resources and building new relationships to help the Church meet the ever-growing need for healing and hope.

Middle East:

During a year of violence and unrest in the Middle East, we’re thankful that this healing ministry is actively sharing God’s love with displaced people and refugees from places including Iran, Sudan, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon. In November, we gathered as a region for a Community of Practice event with renewed vision and strength for the days ahead.

Latin America:

This summer marked the launch of trauma healing in Cuba—starting with training facilitators to lead Healing Hearts Club groups for children.

Africa:

We published the African French version of Healing the Wounds of Trauma, making it easier to lead healing groups in francophone Africa.

Asia:

A Hindi language healing program launched for the first time in Delhi in partnership with Good News Centre’s vast church network. Facilitators from nearly every state in India received training.

United States:

We launched Unstuck: Expanded Edition, a new Bible-based resource that follows the story of a brother and sister caught in a school shooting. We also launched Anchored in Hope, our new app-based small group program.

Healing by the Numbers

Healing groups

In 2025 so far, 27,778 people have participated in healing groups, including 3,000 children and teenagers. 105 countries have active trauma healing ministries — including in Panama for the very first time.

Audio healing groups

This year we launched Anchored in Hope, an app-based audio version of the healing group curriculum. Feedback from pilot users in 136 countries helped us improve the program. Hear ministry leaders explain to how it works:

So far this year, 966 new facilitators were trained to lead healing groups with the audio program. In the countries where facilitators have already started leading healing groups using the app, 3,152 people have completed healing groups.

Anchored in Hope is available in 13 languages so far:

  • English,

  • Spanish,

  • African French,

  • Bengali, Russian,

  • Swahili,

  • Sudanese Arabic,

  • the Twi language of Ghana,

  • the Philippines’ Cebuano,

  • the Hausa language of central Africa,

  • Liberian Kolokwa English,

  • West African Pidgin English from Cameroon, and

  • Mooré from Burkina Faso

Soon, the program will also be available in Hindi and the Acholi language of Uganda.

Healing group facilitators

With the support of THI partners around the world, 5,000 newly trained peer facilitators have joined the Global Community of Practice and are ready to lead healing groups on their own.

The power of healing in community

Our approach to trauma healing is uniquely effective, bringing together proven mental health practices with the wisdom of the Bible. What truly sets our method apart is that it works in community, by inviting people into a process of healing and resilience-building together with others and with God. In person or online, THI resources help people who are suffering discover that they are not alone.

Healing happens in a group

“When I was doing my training I wondered, ‘why groups?’ Why could we not just do trauma healing sessions with individuals? I realized community is critical because you tend to think you are the only one having difficulty or suffering or experiencing pains in life. A group has a way of encouraging you that you are not the only one….you share experiences and become motivated to push even harder despite the challenges of life.”

– Istifanus Jeremiah, Nigeria

Healing happens in churches

Through Restoring Hope, American Bible Society’s ministry of healing and resilience to churches, congregations in the United States are addressing unhealed pain through healing groups which include THI’s programs. What they’re experiencing is people being freed and building stronger relationships with their Savior and with each other.

Print and digital resources

Crisis response tools

From wildfires in California and flooding in Texas to the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, this year has been marked by crises around the world — one reason THI has distributed 21,296 crisis-response materials so far this year. These resources help people who have experienced disasters cope in the immediate aftermath of a devastating event.

Comfort among the Ashes

As we witnessed the devastating effects of California wildfires in January 2025, THI partnered with 23 organizations, churches, and individuals to distribute over 3,700 resources to those impacted by the fires. Here’s one story of Beyond Disaster being used to help bring healing there:

“I want to express my deep gratitude for these resources. … One story that stands out is of a survivor … overwhelmed with grief and struggling to process everything. When I shared the Beyond Disaster booklet with them, they found comfort in realizing they weren’t alone in their emotions. The reflections and guidance helped them begin to make sense of their trauma, and they’ve since started using the exercises to regain a sense of stability. They now keep the booklet with them as a reminder that healing is possible, even in the midst of devastation. Thank you for making these resources available — your work is truly making a difference.”

Karen Gonzales, Helping Hands Resource Center

Standalone resources

Our Bible-based standalone resources — convenient, free, and shareable — provide pathways for people and communities to find help in a time of need or to go deeper in their healing journeys at their own pace.

Restoring Hope Resources

Restoring Hope Daily Resources are easy-to-use resources that help people deal with common life challenges like stress, anxiety, grief, disappointment and loss. One is Forgiveness, a pamphlet that shares insights and practical actions that can help those who want to forgive and heal. Watch a webinar about the resource here.

Trauma Healing Basics

Trauma Healing Basics are simple, practical tools that help people learn about trauma and start to heal, from short videos to a lesson on lamentation. You can find them all on the Trauma Healing Basics Resources page.

All these materials are available in both digital and print formats. So far this year, 99,325 resources helped churches and organizations meet the ongoing crisis of emotional suffering in their communities with sound mental health counsel and the healing wisdom of God’s Word.

Television and radio

Several multimedia programs, including the children’s Arabic-language TV program Leah Kida, and Farsi language TV program of Healing the Wounds of Trauma, distributed by Mohabat TV, were widely broadcast throughout the Middle East. And trauma healing radio programs were broadcast in Fulfulde, West African Pidgin English, French, Tiv, and Nigerian English.

2025 Global Community of Practice:

This October, three hundred people from 60 countries came together in Nairobi for our Global Community of Practice gathering! The theme for this year’s event, Stronger Together, speaks to a truth: Trauma healing ministry is rewarding and inspiring, but it is also difficult and heavy — too great a burden for any one of us to bear alone. This highlight from day one shares how together, we can keep going.

The healing ahead

Here are just a few of the ministry plans we’re excited about in 2026:

Piloting Rise Up in the THI Mobile app, a new small-group program for youth, in partnership with Compassion International, focused on emotional flourishing and resilience. Now being piloted in Spanish and English in five countries, including the U.S.

National and regional Communities of Practice will continue to gather all around the world. Facilitators will come together to learn best practices, build capacity, and be encouraged in their healing ministry.

Piloting the Restoring Hope Church Toolkit for American pastors, in English and Spanish. The coming year brings a new opportunity for Restoring Hope, our healing and resilience ministry that includes THI programs: pastors nationwide will use the beta version of our Church Toolkit to help us make it work even better to make U.S. churches communities of healing.

At a time of deep uncertainty in America and the world, THI and our global community of facilitators look to the future of our ministry with hope and joy. Whatever the future will bring, our work ensures that the Church will continue to meet every kind of human suffering with the good news of God’s infinite love for every one of his children. We invite you to join us — by holding those who are hurting in your prayers, by exploring the healing resources we offer, or just by staying in touch.