Living Proof with Tyra
Turn pain into purpose, and purpose into impact.
Equipping organizations to build healing-centered cultures.
Living Proof with Tyra is a trauma-informed strategy firm. We give organizations and professionals the understanding, frameworks, and tools to support their people well, grounded in SAMHSA's principles of trauma-informed care and led by lived experience.
Four ways we equip your organization.
Every engagement is customized to your mission, your people, and the communities you serve. Choose one, or build a program that combines them.
Workplace Strategy
Organizational assessments, policy development, and implementation support that help your workplace become a trauma-informed environment, where people feel safe enough to do their best work.
Professional Workshops
Customized, interactive learning experiences that equip public-service professionals, first responders, educators, healthcare workers, and frontline teams with practical trauma-informed frameworks.
Speaking & Keynotes
Keynotes, conference sessions, and panels on resilience, trauma-informed leadership, and turning pain into purpose, delivered with lived experience and handled with dignity.
Curriculum Development
Custom training materials and curricula built for your specific organization, mission, and the people you serve, so the learning outlasts the engagement.
Grounded in SAMHSA's six principles.
Trauma-informed care realizes the widespread impact of trauma, recognizes its signs, responds by building that knowledge into everyday practice, and actively resists re-traumatization. Six principles shape everything we do.
Safety
Physical and emotional safety for staff and the people they serve, throughout the organization.
Trustworthiness & Transparency
Decisions made openly, so trust can be built and kept among staff and those served.
Peer Support
Shared experience as a vehicle for building safety, hope, and mutual self-help.
Collaboration & Mutuality
Leveling power differences and recognizing that healing happens in relationships.
Empowerment, Voice & Choice
Prioritizing skill-building, shared decision-making, and a real experience of choice.
Cultural, Historical & Gender Responsiveness
Moving past stereotypes and bias, offering culturally responsive services, honoring history.
Evidence-based, SAMHSA-aligned
For government agencies, public institutions, and organizations that require a clear separation of faith and professional services.
Rooted in faith, aligned in evidence
For faith communities and organizations that welcome spiritual principles woven through the work. Both formats stay fully aligned with SAMHSA practices.
Led by someone who has lived it.
Tyra K. Little turns lived experience into work that helps the next person through.
She is the Founder and Chief Strategist of Living Proof with Tyra, a 20+ year U.S. Air Force and Navy veteran, and an Everytown Survivor Fellow. As Founder and Executive Director of the Both Sides of the Coin Initiative, she has built trauma-informed programs for the people most systems overlook. Now she helps organizations do the same.
Tyra is a Certified Trauma-Informed Practitioner who holds a Certificate in Trauma-Informed Practices from Columbia College and a B.S. in Legal Studies from South University. She is also the author of Grief Etiquette. She brings SAMHSA-grounded frameworks together with the hard-won wisdom of someone who has lived what she teaches, so the work is both rigorous and real.
Tyra has a remarkable ability to transform unimaginable loss into hope and connection. Her message stays with you long after she leaves the microphone.Kassy Ali Ray, PhD · Founder & CEO, Serve & Connect
Let's build a workplace that heals.
Tell us a little about your organization and what you are hoping to change. We will follow up to talk through the right fit, whether that is strategy, a workshop, a keynote, or a full program.
Prefer email? Write to info@livingproofwithtyra.com. Your details are used only to respond to your inquiry.
Living Proof with Tyra provides trauma-informed strategy, training, and education. Our services do not constitute therapy, clinical treatment, or legal advice.