The extensive impacts of complex trauma underline the importance of stabilization, affect regulation, and the capacity to self-soothe and tolerate emotion prior to the processing of traumatic experience (`It is almost impossible to overstate the importance of traumatized patients maintaining an appropriate level of functioning in their lives’; [processing] must be deferred pending the development of basic skills concerning relating and coping’; Chu, 2011). Acquiring the necessary skills requires resourcing, which takes many forms and which encapsulates in a single word the primary task of Phase 1. This session focuses on the multifacted task of client resourcing in contexts of complex trauma, and the many issues and challenges it involves.