Trina Laughlin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has focused her twenty plus year career on trauma. She is the former Family Violence Program Director at The Society for the Protection and Care of Children. As an adjunct faculty member at SUNY Buffalo Graduate School of Social Work she offered trainings and courses in the Trauma Certificate Program. She has spoken locally and nationally about the negative impact of trauma, and pathways to recovery.

Trina believes that degrees of horror are not to be compared, and that people are negatively impacted by trauma in mind, body and spirit. She also firmly believes that there is healing and hope after someone has been exposed to these life changing events.