The TR6 Trauma Model™ Assessment

Six Stages. One Map.

The TR6 Trauma Model™ identifies six universal stages through which individuals oscillate as they adapt to complex trauma. Together, these stages form a single map of human adaptation, tracing movement from unreconciled harm toward reclamation and transcendence. Each stage encompasses cognitive, affective, and somatic domains, allowing clinicians and individuals to identify both adaptive and maladaptive patterns of functioning across the recovery process.

Your results are not a diagnosis—they are a map. They are designed to help you identify where you are adapting well, even in the presence of difficult emotions, where you are moving through recovery, and where you may have become stuck in maladaptive patterns that continue to influence your thoughts, emotions, behaviours, relationships, and nervous system. Awareness is the first step towards change. If your results indicate areas of entrapment or maladaptive adaptation, your next step is to deepen your understanding. The TR6 Trauma Model™: Descent into the Shadow by Deirdre Rolfe provides the most comprehensive explanation of each stage, the mechanisms that keep people stuck, and practical pathways for moving towards adaptive functioning, integration, and recovery. For those seeking additional support, working with the author or a trauma-informed practitioner trained in the TR6 Trauma Model™ can provide personalised guidance in applying the model safely and effectively to your own recovery.

1. 1

   Lack of Reconciliation

2. 2

   Re-Injury

3. 3

   Ruminations

4. 4

   Resentment

5. 5

   Rage

6. 6

   Revenge