About.

TIDE is a trauma-informed education provider dedicated to supporting professionals in healthcare and public service.
Co-founded in 2024 by an Aboriginal Traditional Owner who recognized the incredible value of TIDE for her community, and nurse and educator Misty Carey.
​TIDE combines real-world experience with immersive virtual reality to deliver practical, compassionate training that has a lasting impact.

​From clinical insight to national impact

It started with a conversation....
After observing a series of violent incidents in a remote Western Australian hospital, nurse and educator Misty Carey got curious about the intersection of complex trauma and violence. She reached out to a local lead social worker with an idea:
"We gather data on the number of violent episodes, provide trauma informed care training, then count the violent episodes again, I feel they will reduce"...

This was the beginning of TIDE, a co-designed, community driven training organisation established to address the rising incidents of violence in WA hospitals and public service settings for the benefit of patients and staff. 

The vision is to create safer and more compassionate environments for everyone by learning and understanding safer ways to respond to distress in people with complex trauma. To avoid escalation through verbal and non-verbal language that's embedded with trauma informed principles and holistic care.

This prompted extensive research across Australia and overseas, where Misty found trauma-informed care was transforming patient and staff experiences, reducing aggression, burnout, and rates of discharge against medical advice (DAMA).  Patients felt genuinely seen, staff felt empowered and less burnt out, and organisations could focus more on therapy than crisis management. Her findings and collaborations are the backbone of TIDE’s programs and practices. 

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TIDE's Goal

To equip healthcare and public service professionals with the knowledge, skills and confidence to safely respond to challenging behaviours through trauma-informed care—reducing workplace violence, improving patient outcomes, and fostering safer and more sustainable environments for all.​​

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Meet Our Founder - Misty 

Misty Carey has a deep passion for nursing and providing care and support. Her nursing journey has taken her across Australia and overseas, nursing in major hospitals, working at sea as a ship’s medic, and eventually joining the Africa Mercy hospital ship in Liberia.

Returning to WA, Misty combined her nursing experience with a growing passion for education, remote health, and supporting vulnerable communities. Her work in the Kimberley and in the prison, system deepened her understanding of the complex eco-systems, of trauma and the challenges faced by both clients and staff.

Drawing on extensive lived experience, qualification and a genuine understanding of human emotions and responses, Misty is a subject matter expert with multiple industry knowledge. 

​In observing the positive effect of providing trauma-informed care to clients and colleagues the creation of TIDE began.
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Today, Misty continues to nurse, educate, and advocate for trauma-informed approaches and restorative practice through TIDE Education.  

​Explore more on the of the intersection of complex trauma and violence with these podcasts from Australian, USA, UK & Scandinavian models of escalation response.

​Just click on each image to listen

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It's been over 30 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody urged the nation to do all it could to reduce incarceration rates for Indigenous people, and yet rates have gotten worse. Through my work in Indigenous/non-Indigenous relations over that same period, I've become clear on one of the key causes of this incarceration rate.
Indigenous people can become critically stressed in settings that often feel threatening or unwelcoming (for both historic and contemporary reasons) and that stress can lead to conflict.  I've also observed the profound difference in short term outcomes that result from different styles of interactions.  When staff understand the roots of trauma and the profound importance of humanizing, person-focused interactions, 'critical incidents' can be easily avoided, or quickly de-escalated.  When, on the other hand, they opt for 'constraint' or 'control' based responses, the stresses can explode into conflict, often leading to involvement of police. This hurts everyone involved AND creates a broader ongoing culture of conflict that makes positive interactions ever more difficult for everyone. It creates a vicious cycle of alienation that hurts us all. TIDE is showing that different ways are possible. Founder, Misty Carey has not only identified the skills that de-escalate rather than inflame tensions, but she is also showing that the skills can be taught and learned. Working in health and other service settings can be horribly stressful and we betray service providers if we don't equip them with the capacity to contribute to safer rather than more hostile environments.
​TIDE's training is good for everyone. I'd love to see it rolled out in all of our service settings. 

Tim Muirhead

CSD Network

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The value of trauma informed care lies in its potential to restore dignity in systems that often deny it.
Over the years of working within the health and ethics space, I have come to emphasize that healing is not just physical, it is deeply moral, social and political. For that kind of healing to occur, we must recognize the pain, histories, and silences of both patients and healthcare professionals, especially those who are marginalized within the system. 
​This recognition is an act of ethical acknowledgment, and this approach offers ways to rebuild trust with communities.

Supriya Subramani 

Asst. Prof/ Lecturer 

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University of Sydney 

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