Trauma, Suffering, and Spiritual Restoration
Find healing and learn to bring restoration to others.
Course Details
Pricing Options
Continuing Education
$375.00
Includes 10 video lessons, all course materials, and 15 continuing education credit hours.
Contact the School of Adult Education for group pricing or payment arrangements.
About This Course
This course is an invitation to heal — and to learn how to bring that healing to others. Through 10 video lessons, you’ll explore how trauma and suffering shape our lives, our relationships, and our faith, and you’ll discover a biblical path toward restoration.
You’ll examine how trauma impacts us physically, emotionally, and spiritually, and learn to recognize what that looks like in your own life and in the lives of those around you. More than just head knowledge, this course is designed to be a restorative experience in itself — a space to rest, reflect, and encounter God’s healing presence.
Our hope is that you’ll walk away with a deeper understanding of spiritual restoration, practical tools you can use in ministry and everyday life, and the confidence to help others find the same healing God offers to each of us.
What You'll Learn
Each topic builds on the last, giving you a complete framework for understanding trauma and walking with others toward restoration.
Understanding Trauma & Its Impact
Explore how trauma and suffering affect us physically, emotionally, relationally, and spiritually — and learn to recognize its effects in yourself and others.
Biblical Foundations for Healing
Discover what Scripture teaches about suffering, pain, and God's heart for restoration — building a theological framework for understanding trauma through a biblical lens.
Personal Healing & Restoration
Experience the course as more than information — engage in guided reflection and spiritual practices designed to bring rest, healing, and renewed connection with God.
Recognizing Trauma in Others
Develop the ability to identify signs of trauma and suffering in the people around you, and learn compassionate, informed ways to respond and offer support.
Tools for Ministry & Care
Gain practical skills and biblical strategies for walking alongside others through their healing journey — whether in ministry, counseling, small groups, or everyday relationships.
Becoming an Agent of Restoration
Learn how to carry the healing you've received into the lives of others, extending God's grace and restoration to your family, community, and sphere of influence.
Who It's For
This course is for anyone who wants to understand trauma through a biblical lens — whether you're seeking personal healing or preparing to help others.
Licensed clinicians: this course offers 15 continuing education hours. CEU acceptance for license renewal varies by board and state — please confirm with your licensing board before enrolling. See the disclaimer below for details.
Trauma Through a Biblical Lens
What sets this course apart from secular trauma training is its starting point: a biblical understanding of suffering, healing, and the God who restores.
Suffering and God's Heart for Restoration
Scripture doesn't minimize suffering or rush past it — it takes pain seriously while pointing consistently toward restoration. This course builds a theological framework for understanding trauma that holds both the reality of suffering and the hope of healing.
Equips you to sit with pain honestly while holding out genuine hope.
Healing as More Than Technique
A biblical view of restoration treats healing as something God does in whole persons — body, mind, and spirit — not just a clinical outcome. The course is designed as a restorative experience, not only information transfer."
Prepares you to care for others as whole people, not just symptoms.
Carrying Restoration to Others
Scripture frames those who have been comforted as uniquely able to comfort others. The course treats your own healing as preparation for becoming an agent of restoration in your family, community, and ministry."
Grounds your care for others in the healing you've received yourself.
Where This Course Takes You
The course is built to produce both personal healing and practical capacity to help others heal.
Recognize Trauma in Yourself and Others
Identify the physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual signs of trauma and suffering.
Respond With Informed Compassion
Offer support that's both compassionate and informed, without overstepping or minimizing.
Use Restoration Tools in Ministry
Apply biblical strategies for walking alongside others in counseling, small groups, ministry, and everyday relationships.
Become an Agent of Restoration
Carry the healing you've received into your family, community, and sphere of influence.
Why Take This Course
A Restorative Experience, Not Just Content
The course is designed to be healing in itself — a space to rest, reflect, and encounter God's presence.
15 Continuing Education Hours
Earn 15 CE hours toward professional or ministry continuing-education requirements.
Biblical Lens on Trauma
Engage trauma through a biblical framework that secular training doesn't offer — without sacrificing practical, informed care.
Both Personal and Practical
Built for those seeking their own healing and those preparing to help others — most participants are both.
Register Now
Enroll today and begin your first lesson this Monday.
Getting Started
This is a self-paced online course you can begin any week.
Register and Pay
Complete registration and the $375 continuing education fee.
Get Course Access
Receive access to all 10 video lessons and course materials. New cohorts begin every Monday.
Work Through the Lessons
Move through the ten lessons at your own pace, engaging the guided reflection along the way.
Earn Your CE Hours
Complete the course to receive your 15 continuing education hours.
Have Questions?
The School of Adult Education is happy to help with enrollment, group pricing, or payment arrangements.
Continuing education credit hours are offered for professional and ministry development. Acceptance of these hours toward a specific professional license (including LPC, LCSW, and LMFT renewal) varies by licensing board and state. Please confirm acceptance with your licensing board before enrolling. This course is not therapy and is not a substitute for professional mental-health treatment. Course content, pricing, and availability are subject to change. No academic credit or degree is awarded for this continuing education course.
