Whether you’re on a healing journey, looking to better understand your own experiences, or simply wanting to learn more about how trauma shapes the way we think, feel, and connect with others, podcasts can be an incredibly powerful and accessible resource. The right podcast can feel like sitting down with a knowledgeable friend, one who speaks honestly about the hard stuff, offers evidence-based insight, and reminds you that you’re far from alone in what you’ve been through.
To help you find the voices and conversations that resonate most, I’ve rounded up some of the best podcasts on trauma available right now, covering everything from the science of the nervous system to personal stories of survival and recovery.
The Trauma Therapist
The Trauma Therapist Podcast centers on the resilience and depth of the human spirit. Host Guy Macpherson, PhD, sits down with leading voices across the fields of trauma, mindfulness, addiction, and yoga, giving listeners an intimate look at the personal journeys and hard-earned wisdom of dedicated professionals who have made it their life’s work to guide others through the healing process. Some guests contribute a fee for sponsored appearances to help keep the show running, and any paid segments are always clearly identified.
Transforming Trauma
This podcast features in-depth conversations with leading trauma specialists and mental health professionals exploring how individuals and communities can heal from complex trauma. Through interviews with experts using the NARM® model and other trauma-informed approaches, the show offers practical insight and guidance for anyone, whether a healthcare professional, educator, survivor, or someone simply seeking personal growth, looking to understand and transform the lasting effects of trauma.
Something Was Wrong
Something Was Wrong is an award-winning documentary podcast series that follows survivors as they uncover the truth about what happened to them, navigate the trauma they’ve experienced, and work their way toward healing and recovery from crime and abuse.
This Is Actually Happening
This is Actually Happening brings listeners face to face with extraordinary true stories of life-altering events, told in the words of the very people who lived through them. From being trafficked into a cult to surviving a grizzly bear attack to enduring 27 stab wounds at the hands of a serial killer, the show explores some of the most unimaginable experiences a human being can go through.
The Crappy Childhood Fairy Podcast with Anna Runkle
Anna Runkle, known as the Crappy Childhood Fairy, is a childhood trauma survivor who has spent over 20 years teaching others how to recognize and heal the lasting effects of growing up with abuse and neglect. Drawing from her own experience rather than a clinical background, Anna focuses on calming neurological dysregulation, a common but often overlooked root cause of struggles with relationships, focus, energy, and professional fulfillment.
Thanks For Asking
Terrible, Thanks for Asking is a call-in show hosted by author Nora McInerny that invites real people to have genuinely honest conversations about how they are truly doing. Nora takes the calls herself, creating a space where nothing is off limits and authenticity is always welcome.
Life After Trauma with Jess Vanrose
Life After Trauma is a trauma-informed podcast hosted by Jess Vanrose, a fellow survivor and trauma-informed guide, offering honest and grounded conversations for women navigating life after survival. Rather than rushing or fixing the healing process, Jess creates a gentle space focused on nervous system regulation, identity, and simply feeling less alone, wherever you are in your journey.
The Healing Trauma Podcast
This podcast is built on the belief that everyone deserves to feel seen, soothed, and truly understood. Through thoughtful conversations with leading trauma experts, it offers listeners a guiding light on their healing journey, blending genuine empathy with practical tools and a steady sense of hope to help them move forward.
Therapy Chat
Hosted by Laura Reagan, LCSW-C, this podcast features candid conversations with therapists and healing professionals about holistic and alternative approaches to psychotherapy, trauma, and self-care. From EMDR and somatic methods to mindfulness and attachment, Laura explores the full spectrum of what it means to heal, and what it takes to stay well as a practitioner.
Trauma Rewired
This podcast explores the inner workings of the nervous system, diving into how trauma becomes stored in the body and offering listeners practical guidance on what they can do to begin the healing process.
Let’s Talk about Mental Health
Hosted by counsellor and writer Jeremy Godwin, Let’s Talk About Mental Health delivers straightforward, practical mental health tips every week, no interviews or filler, just solid, actionable advice to help listeners build resilience, find balance, and make their mental wellbeing a real priority.
System Speak: Complex Trauma and Dissociative Disorders
System Speak follows Emma and her system as they document their healing journey living with Complex Trauma and a Dissociative Disorder. Equal parts educational and deeply personal, the podcast offers insights, conversations, and honest reflections on recovery, making it a supportive and inspiring resource for anyone navigating similar experiences.
Life After PTSD Podcast: Healing From Trauma
Every week, the Life After PTSD Podcast shares real stories from people who have worked to build a fulfilling life on the other side of PTSD.
What Was That Like – True Stories. Real People.
Hosted by Scott Johnson and Meredith Hackwith Edwards, this storytelling podcast puts listeners directly in the shoes of people who have lived through some of the most harrowing experiences imaginable, from animal attacks and plane crashes to mass shootings and beyond. Each storyteller recounts their own experience in vivid detail, sharing not just what happened, but the remarkable and inspiring way they found their way through it.
Therapist Uncensored Podcast
Ranked among Apple’s Top 10 Social Science podcasts with over 11 million downloads, Therapist Uncensored is a female-led show hosted by Sue Marriott, LCSW CGP and Ann Kelley, PhD. Together they break down complex psychological concepts into practical, actionable insights, joined by leading neuroscientists and relationship experts to help listeners build stronger, more secure connections with themselves and others.
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