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Blue Knot Foundation

People who experience complex trauma often struggle as an adult with their mental and physical health and wellbeing. People supporting them often don’t know what to do and say. Blue Knot Foundation empowers survivors to recover and supports those around them.

Vision and mission

Blue Knot Foundation is Australia's National Centre of Excellence for Complex Trauma. They empower recovery and build resilience for the more than 5 million adults impacted by complex trauma. This includes 1 in 4 adult Australians who have experienced childhood trauma. Complex trauma is interpersonal (between people) trauma as a child, young person or adult e.g. violence, abuse, neglect or exploitation.

How Blue Knot Foundation can help

Blue Knot provides trauma specialist phone counselling and referrals, educational workshops for survivors and their supporters, training and therapeutic services for practitioners and workers, trauma-informed consultancy for services, evidence-informed publications, newsletters for survivors and practitioner, advocacy, research and health promotion in the areas of complex trauma and trauma informed care and practice.

Blue Knot Helpline and Redress Support Service is a trauma specialist phone and webchat service for adult survivors of complex childhood trauma and their personal and professional supporters.

Information lines/help lines

  • Call the Blue Knot Helpline and Redress Support Service 1300 657 380, 9am to 5pm Monday to Sunday AEST/AEDT.

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Last reviewed: May 2024

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Blue Knot Publications

Access to range of Blue Knot publications for survivors and supporters for purchase or free download.

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Videos

We provide videos for survivors of complex & childhood trauma and for their supporters, counsellors and researchers. Watch now

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Coping Strategies, Impacts and Healing

Information about ways survivor of complex trauma coping strategies, its impacts and healing and recovery and resilience

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Healing and Resilience

information about possibilities for healing and recovery from complex trauma, strengths, resilience and post traumatic growth

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What is Child Abuse?

We provide information about child abuse including physical, sexual, emotional abuse, neglect, domestic and family violence. Read more

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What is Childhood Trauma?

Childhood trauma generally means trauma between birth and the age of six. Read more about experiencing childhood trauma and coping strategies

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What is Complex Trauma?

Information about complex trauma across life cycle, difference from single incident trauma, complex PTSD, diagnoses and recovery

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Supporters

If you are supporting a person who has experienced complex trauma, we hope the information and resources for supporters will help. Read more

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Survivor Self-Care

Caring for yourself is often challenging for people who have experienced complex trauma. Find out here strategies for self-care for survivors

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Grounding

We provide information and strategies for grounding for survivors of complex trauma, childhood trauma, child abuse. Explore more here

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