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Individual Evergreen courses are available for $30* each. Bundles and memberships are available too—choose what works best for you.
*Prices are in Canadian Dollars.
All Evergreen Courses by Topic
- Anxiety
- Attachment
- Authenticity
- Boundaries
- Burnout
- Christmas
- Emotional Development
- Family
- Foundations
- Healing
- Identity
- Inner Child
- Loving Someone..
- Narcissism
- Nervous System
- People-Pleasing
- Procrastination
- Relationships
- Self-Care
- Self-Discovery
- Shame
- Survival Patterns
- Trauma Responses
- Trauma Wounds
- Work
Never Good Enough: Perfectionism + Complex Trauma
If nothing you do ever feels good enough, this course looks at what perfectionism is often really protecting you from. It traces the pattern back to shame and Complex Trauma, showing how striving for flawless can become a prison of false guilt, comparison, and hidden struggle. You'll learn to tell perfectionism apart from healthy effort and build a gentler, more human standard to live by.
Worst-Case Thinking and Complex Trauma: Why I Expect the Worst
If you spend your days waiting for the other shoe to drop, even when nothing is actually wrong, this course looks at why. It traces worst-case thinking back to its roots in Complex Trauma, including fearful caregivers, unsafe homes, and cycles where calm always came right before harm. You'll learn to tell real danger apart from old alarm and build practical ways to sit with uncertainty instead of bracing against it.
Abandonment + Complex Trauma: Why Am I So Afraid They’ll Leave?
If closeness always seems to come with the fear that it will end, this course looks at what may be underneath that dread. It traces the fear of abandonment back to a real wound in Complex Trauma, including early attachment injuries and the shame that says you are not enough to make someone stay. You'll learn to recognize the patterns that can push people away without meaning to, and build a steadier, more trusting way to stay connected, to others and to yourself.
The Need For Control: Why Letting Go Feels Unsafe
If you feel like you can never fully relax because someone has to keep everything on track, this course looks at what usually sits underneath that drive. It traces the need for control back to its roots in Complex Trauma, including shame, broken trust, and old fear, and shows why managing the outside world so rarely calms what is happening inside. You'll come away with a clearer understanding of the pattern and practical ways to build trust and inner steadiness in its place.
Grief and Complex Trauma: Mourning What I Didn’t Get
Complex Trauma is often shaped as much by what was missing as by what happened. This course explores grief connected to unmet needs, lost childhood, disrupted attachment, hidden parts of yourself, and years spent surviving. You’ll learn how these losses continue to affect relationships, identity, emotions, and recovery, while developing a healthier understanding of grief, healing, and self-compassion.
Triggers, Flashbacks and Overreactions: Why Do I React This Way?
Small moments can feel overwhelming when they activate old shame wounds. This course explores how Complex Trauma shapes emotional triggers, shame beliefs, protective reactions, and shame spirals. You’ll learn why certain situations feel so intense, how past experiences influence present-day responses, and how greater self-awareness can help you interrupt old patterns and respond with more understanding, responsibility, and self-compassion.
Shame in Relationships: Why I Hide, Please or Pull Away
If you want close relationships but find yourself hiding, people-pleasing, pulling away, or becoming defensive when things feel vulnerable, this course will help you understand why. You’ll learn how shame shapes intimacy, boundaries, conflict, emotional honesty, and the fear of being fully known, so you can begin building connection without abandoning yourself.
Childhood Emotional Neglect: The Trauma No One Saw
If you've ever thought, "Nothing that bad happened, so why do I struggle the way I do?" this course may help you make sense of that question. Childhood Emotional Neglect explores how growing up without enough emotional connection, validation, comfort, or attunement can shape self-worth, relationships, emotional awareness, and the ability to trust your own needs. You'll learn why emotional neglect is often difficult to recognize, how it continues to affect adult life, and what healing can look like when you begin understanding the trauma no one saw.
What Are Emotions?
If emotions feel overwhelming, confusing, numb, or hard to trust, this course will help you understand why. You’ll learn how Complex Trauma shapes the emotional system, why certain emotions become difficult to handle, and how to begin noticing what your emotions may actually be trying to communicate.
Why Can’t I Feel My Emotions?
If you struggle to know what you feel, go blank emotionally, stay stuck in your head, or feel numb and disconnected from yourself, this course will help you understand why. You’ll learn how Complex Trauma can shape emotional shutdown, emotional numbness, overthinking, and disconnection, and why reconnecting with emotions often has to begin slowly and safely.
What Do I Do With My Emotions?
If emotions tend to escalate quickly, leave you overwhelmed, or create problems in relationships, this course will help you build practical emotional skills. You’ll learn how Complex Trauma affects emotional regulation, triggers, shutdown, conflict, and emotional reactions, along with concrete tools for grounding, self-awareness, communication, boundaries, repair, and healthier emotional responses.
Why Do I Need Emotions?
If emotions feel overwhelming, confusing, exhausting, or hard to trust, this course will help you understand why. You’ll learn how Complex Trauma shapes anger, guilt, fear, anxiety, grief, and hope, and how emotions often point toward needs, boundaries, safety, loss, and connection rather than simply being problems to get rid of.
Introduction to the 12 Basic Needs
Learn the fundamentals of the 12 Basic Needs. If you’ve felt a persistent sense of emptiness, restlessness, or that something never quite feels resolved, this course will help you understand why. You’ll learn how unmet needs shape patterns and coping, and how to start recognizing what may actually be underneath those experiences.
The Four F’s: Fight, Flight, Freeze and Fawn
If you find yourself overreacting, shutting down, avoiding conflict, or constantly trying to keep others happy, this course will help you understand why. You’ll learn how fight, flight, freeze, and fawn responses develop, and how to start recognizing the patterns that may still be shaping your reactions and relationships today.
Introduction to Complex Trauma - Part 1
If you’ve struggled with anxiety, shame, relationship patterns, or a sense that something doesn’t quite make sense in your life, this course will help you understand why. You’ll learn how Complex Trauma can shape multiple areas at once, and how to start seeing your patterns as connected rather than random.
Introduction to Complex Trauma - Part 2
If you’ve started to recognize patterns of Complex Trauma but don’t fully understand where they came from, this course will help you connect the dots. You’ll explore how early environments, unmet needs, and relationship dynamics shaped your patterns, so they begin to feel understood rather than confusing.
Healing After a Narcissistic Relationship
Transform your life by understanding and healing from the impacts of a narcissistic relationship. Gain tools to rebuild self-esteem and reclaim your happiness.
Boundaries with Narcissistic or Emotionally Immature People
Gain practical strategies to establish and maintain healthy boundaries with narcissistic or emotionally immature people for improved relationships and personal wellbeing.
Why Narcissistic Relationships Are So Hard to Leave
Understand the dynamics of narcissistic relationships and gain the tools to break free and heal for a healthier future.
Identifying Narcissistic Patterns in Relationships
If you keep second-guessing your judgment in relationships or struggling to trust what you feel, this course helps you understand why. It gives you a clearer way to recognize narcissistic patterns if present, properly read behaviour, and rely on your own perception again.
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Bundles
$60
Save over 70% when you purchase all 7 Procrastination + Complex Trauma courses together.
Includes courses on Procrastination and: Work, Creative Dreams, Self-Care, Relationships, Financial Worry, Hoarding, and Healing.
$50
Save over 70% when you purchase all 6 Boundaries + Complex Trauma courses together.
Includes courses on Boundaries and:
What They Are and Why They Matter, People-Pleasing, Anger, Saying No Without Guilt, With Yourself, and Relationships.
$45
Save over 62% when you purchase all Christmas + Complex Trauma courses together.
Includes holiday-themed courses on: Setting Boundaries with Family, Navigating Triggers, Resting and Recovering, and Thinking Differently About Gifts.
EVERGREEN FAQs
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No — our Evergreen courses have been developed as a place to begin. You can do one course or many, and it does not matter in which order.
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We have a few options!
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EVERGREEN courses are $30 each when purchased on their own.
You get lifetime access to the course as long as you have your Thinkific account.
Some courses are included in themed bundles. When purchased in a bundle, you’ll usually save a lot on each course.
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Yes! During checkout, check the “This is a Gift” box and Thinkific will prompt you to enter the recipient’s information.
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Currently we are growing our Evergreen library frequently to offer more affordable and introductory options for all. Each course is bite-sized and offers complex trauma recovery education on a specific, related topic. If you’re looking for more in-depth options, you can also check out our ALIGN Self-Study courses and our most popular resource, LIFT Live Online Learning.
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No, our Evergreen courses are not accredited or intended for training purposes. They have been developed as an affordable and gentle way to begin learning about complex trauma and its characteristics.
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All of our courses and programs are hosted through Thinkific! Click Student Login in the main menu above, or log in here. We recommend bookmarking the page for later.
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Our courses and programs are online-only and hosted through the Thinkific learning platform. You can access them through your computer, tablet, or smart phone. We recommend using a computer or tablet for the best experience.
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You will gain indefinite access to the course materials as long as you have your Thinkific account.
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Our EVERGREEN courses are self-paced and self-study only, so you can get started right away. You will be working through lessons, watching videos, and working through journals.
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If you’ve gone through any of our EVERGREEN courses and decide you’d like to go deeper, we encourage you to explore our ALIGN Self-Study Courses and LIFT Program.
If you’re looking for more guidance, book an Intake Session with us! Our team will be happy to get to know you and make program recommendations.
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If you still have more questions about our Evergreen Courses, reach out to us at contact@timfletcher.ca.

