Trauma-Informed vs. Trauma-Focused: Why the Difference Actually Matters With Kat Grassetti

Season 2, Episode 14 of the Element Q Podcast features host TJ Woodward in a conversation with Kat Grissetti, LCSW—Chief Clinical Officer for Monima Behavioral Health, Monima Wellness Center, and Element Q Healing Center. Kat brings her background in university counseling, intensive outpatient programming, restorative justice facilitation, and interdisciplinary leadership into a powerful conversation about trauma care and LGBTQ+ mental health. She shares why trauma-focused treatment must go deeper than training, techniques, or EMDR acronyms—and instead look at the realities of story-holding, team culture, and human connection within care environments.

Together, Kat and TJ explore the difference between trauma-informed vs. trauma-focused treatment, emphasizing how real healing requires attunement, sacred space, relational presence, and soma ...