The major aim of Trauma Aid is to improve the quality of trauma treatment of people who have been exposed to violence and other forms of extreme psychological distress. To achieve this Trauma Aid focuses on the training of therapists in countries where so far no sufficient training in psycho-traumatology is available. European standards of training and therapy are taken as the relevant quality level.

EMDR stands for "Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing" and is a trauma therapy developed by the American psychologist Francine Shapiro.

The therapists trained by Trauma Aid since 2007, along with their trainers. They work in the Mekong Project (Indonesia, Thailand, and Cambodia) and in India and China. The picture was taken in early 2011.