Founder & Product Compliance Lead
Named owner: Jana Burkhardt, BA (Hons) Business Administration
Qualifications
- BA (Hons) Business Administration — University of Applied Sciences Erfurt, Germany
- Certificate in Trauma-Informed Counselling — The Open University
- Ongoing professional development in trauma-informed practice, safeguarding, wellbeing education, compliance, digital platform governance, and responsible platform management
Jana Burkhardt is the Founder of Recovery Trauma™ and leads the platform’s vision, product development, governance, compliance framework, safeguarding framework, risk management, and strategic direction.
Recovery Trauma™ was created from a combination of lived experience, extensive personal engagement with trauma recovery, and the desire to make trauma-informed information and wellbeing resources easier to access.
Jana is a survivor of significant childhood and adult trauma and has spent many years engaged in her own recovery, including extensive therapy and personal development work in Germany and the United Kingdom.
The idea for Recovery Trauma™ developed through this experience. While looking for support, Jana found that useful resources were often fragmented across different services and platforms. Recovery Trauma™ was created to bring educational information, grounding and regulation tools, wellbeing exercises, reflective practices, community features, and therapist discovery together within one accessible platform.
During its development, Jana created the original concept and platform structure, developed its social media presence and community, created and coordinated educational and wellbeing content, supported website and app development, established partnerships, and developed the platform’s governance and compliance framework.
What began as a personal vision has developed into a growing trauma-informed wellbeing platform designed to help people access information, practical tools, supportive resources, community, and independent therapist discovery.
Important note
Jana does not provide therapy, counselling, psychotherapy, psychological assessment, diagnosis, medical treatment, crisis intervention, or healthcare services through Recovery Trauma™. Using Recovery Trauma™ does not establish a therapist–client, counsellor–client, doctor–patient, or other healthcare-professional relationship with Jana or Recovery Trauma™. Her role focuses on platform and product development, business and strategic leadership, governance, compliance framework oversight, GDPR and privacy accountability, safeguarding framework and escalation procedures, platform-level risk management, policy development and review, operational oversight, trauma-informed wellbeing education, community development, and therapist-directory administration and verification requirements. Safeguarding responsibilities relate to platform governance, procedures, escalation, moderation, and appropriate referral or signposting. They do not constitute clinical assessment, diagnosis, therapy, crisis intervention, or professional healthcare decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Product strategy and roadmap
- Platform governance
- Compliance framework oversight
- GDPR and privacy accountability
- Safeguarding framework oversight
- Platform risk management
- Policy review and approval
- Therapist-directory verification requirements
- Coordination of technical, administrative, compliance, safeguarding, and operational functions
- Community and partnership development
- Strategic development
- Review of significant platform incidents and risks
Límites
- Does not provide therapy through Recovery Trauma™
- Does not provide counselling
- Does not provide psychotherapy
- Does not diagnose mental-health or medical conditions
- Does not provide medical or healthcare treatment
- Does not provide crisis or emergency intervention
- Does not establish therapeutic relationships with users
- Does not clinically supervise therapists listed on the platform
- Is not responsible for the independent clinical decisions or professional practice of therapists listed in the directory