About Us
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Our mission is to raise global awareness about Complex PTSD — and to make it easier for survivors to understand, talk about & heal from.
We provide trauma survivors and their loved ones with the tools, language, and support they were never given.  By combining education, neuroscience, and lived experience, we’re breaking the silence around trauma and making healing more accessible — no matter where someone is in the world or on their journey.
Kristin Francis
Founder of Complex PTSD Warrior
Trauma Educator, Survivor, Speaker, and Mental Health Advocate
Kristin Francis is the founder of Complex PTSD Warrior — a global movement empowering trauma survivors with trauma-informed education, nervous system tools, and compassionate support. What began as a personal healing journey has grown into a worldwide platform, offering resources and support to people across more than 60 countries through her Facebook community and online content.
Until six years ago, Kristin felt like a child trapped in an adult body — stuck in a cycle of emotional overwhelm, constant exhaustion, and finding it harder and harder to perform daily tasks. Through her dedicated daily healing practices, she learned to recognize her triggers, regulate her emotions, and create daily patterns that supported her nervous system. Today, she feels more present, grounded, and at peace.
Diagnosed with Complex PTSD in 2019, Kristin has since spent over 10,000 hours immersed in personal healing, trauma education, nervous system research, and integrative daily practices. Her work blends lived experience with neuroscience-backed approaches, making healing feel less clinical — and more human.
As both a survivor and a partner to someone doing their own healing, Kristin brings a unique dual lens to her work: she understands what it’s like to live in survival mode — and what it takes to rebuild safety, connection, and trust from the ground up.
Her free and paid resources, trauma-informed guides, and weekly writings have helped trauma survivors feel seen, supported, and safer in their own bodies. Within a month of launching her Complex PTSD Warrior Substack, it was named one of Substack’s Top 100 Health & Wellness publications — a reflection of the deep need for this kind of honest, trauma-informed content.
Kristin also serves as Vice President of the Board of Directors for Humanity Hale, a nonprofit supporting trauma-impacted youth on the Big Island of Hawai’i where she is also a weekly mentor, providing trauma-informed guidance, nervous system tools, and a safe, loving space for local keiki.
Kristin lives on the Big Island of Hawai’i with her husband Travis and their sons, where healing is woven into everyday life — and where she continues to create tools, spaces, and stories that remind others they’re not broken — they’re healing.
Travis Francis
Educator, Mentor, and the Other Half of Complex PTSD Warrior
Father and Advocate for Men’s Emotional Growth
Travis Francis is a trauma-informed educator, mentor, and the other half of Complex PTSD Warrior. An admitted recovering narcissist, he offers a refreshingly vulnerable perspective on what it means to support someone living with Complex PTSD — while doing the inner work himself to unlearn patterns, rebuild trust, and grow from the inside out.
Before stepping into trauma-informed work, Travis spent over 25 years building and leading businesses in the fitness and financial sectors — helping thousands of individuals improve their physical, mental, and financial wellbeing. That chapter laid the foundation for his deeper calling: to guide others not just toward outward success, but inner transformation.
Travis has spent the past several years learning how to be a steady, emotionally present partner in the midst of his own deep healing. Rather than trying to fix or avoid, he’s embraced the deeper work of regulating his own nervous system, listening with compassion, and becoming a safer, more grounded partner.
Transforming from someone who used to respond with defensiveness, intensity, and pain-driven reactions to someone who can pause, breathe, and respond with care and presence — has become one of his most meaningful personal achievements.
With over 5,000 hours of trauma healing research and personal inner work, Travis brings lived insight and a deep commitment to transformation. His focus includes healing generational trauma, exploring narcissistic patterns, and building emotional resilience through daily practices like meditation, breathwork, yoga, and men’s work.
Travis offers a rare window into what it really looks like to support someone healing from Complex PTSD — not by fixing or rescuing, but by staying grounded and doing his own work alongside her. By choosing to heal alongside someone he loves, Travis is showing what’s possible in relationships affected by trauma — that emotional closeness, trust, and safety are possible. He shares the raw, human side of his journey to remind other partners that they’re not alone in the often invisible role they carry. His commitment to growth, accountability, and nervous system regulation has led to the kind of trust and emotional closeness that now defines his most important relationships.
Travis lives on the Big Island of Hawai’i with Kristin and their sons, where family healing is part of everyday life.
Aesha S.
Kristin and Travis are so inspiring in the way that they saw things in their individual and family life wasn't working and chose to work hard to heal themselves individually, together and their family and home life. To take that level of accountability is unparalleled.Â
Virginia S.
I wish I had someone like you when I had a young family. What you are doing is so important! I am so proud of you and the work you put in. What you do is important!!!
Brianna T.Â
 Kristin, your dedication to healing trauma in your own life, in the community, and all the spaces to tackle trauma in families is so powerful and special. You have such a vast wealth of knowledge to share with others and your services are so needed in so many families. You’re healing so many families that need it. Ending generational trauma one family at a time.  I wish my family had you when I was just a lil girl.