Two-day CPD training online for psychotherapists, counsellors and mental health professionals.
An embodied approach to working safely with trauma for you and your trauma clients. Improving their quality of life and your practice and wellbeing.
Develop safe, immediately-applicable, techniques, tools and practices to use throughout the trauma-therapy journey; from initial assessments & history-taking onwards.
Training details:
The training will focus on developing understanding of trauma, PTSD, and trauma therapy through a somatic, body–mind integrative framework, with particular emphasis on stabilisation and safety.
Theoretical material will include definitions and types of trauma, phases of working with trauma, and the impact of trauma on the body and nervous system of the client, the therapist, and the therapeutic relationship.
We will focus on developing an embodied understanding of nervous system regulation and dysregulation, including recognising bodily cues that support safety, co-regulation, and practitioner wellbeing.
We will address working safely with survival responses (fight, flight, friend, freeze, and flop), safe assessment and history-taking, and recognising, preventing, and halting unintentional re-traumatisation.
The training will also include ways of working with flashbacks and nightmares, alongside a range of body-based and somatically informed strategies and embodied and creative resources for stabilisation for therapists and helping professionals to draw on in their clinical work with clients experiencing nervous system dysregulation, distressing memories, panic, and dissociation.
Cost
Early Bird £245 (until 16th January)
Full Price £ 275
If you work for an organisation that will be paying for the training, they can use the PayPal booking link or contact us directly for an invoice/alternative payment options. For larger groups, we can also look at private options on- or off-site.
Timings
Friday 5th February: 10am to 4.30pm
Saturday 6th February: 9.30am to 4pm
With regular breaks and a half-hour lunch. Teas, coffees and biscuits provided.
Facilitators
The training is led by Vanessa Bear and Alex Jenkins, both experienced Certified Somatic Trauma Therapists.
Vanessa Bear is a UKCP-registered psychotherapist, certified Somatic Trauma Therapist, Clinical Supervisor (in training) and eco-therapist. working with children, adolescents and adults in the South Lakes. She is additionally trained in EMDR, yoga therapy, sensorimotor art/drawing, Movement for Trauma, sandtray and other embodied, nature-connected and creative approaches, which she weaves through her workshops and training.
Vanessa regularly facilitates trainings, workshops, retreats and presentations for organisations and helping professionals, in the UK and online, with a particular focus on safe trauma recovery, self-care for helpers and nature-based wellbeing.
Vanessa has assisted on Babette Rothschild’s Somatic Trauma Therapy training courses since 2019.
She is co-author (with Babette Rothschild) of 8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery Workbook and the forthcoming Help for the Helper Workbook, and creator of the Wild and Wellbeing Card Deck, all published by W. W. Norton.
Alex Jenkins is an experienced integrative trauma-focused psychotherapist, a certified Somatic Trauma Therapist, a Positive Psychology practitioner and researcher, a psych-educational course developer and trainer, and an assistant on Babette Rothschild’s 12-day Somatic Trauma Therapy courses, including pro-bono adaptations supporting Polish and Ukrainian therapists working with the impacts of war. She works with adults of all ages.
Alongside her private practice, GET Therapy Ltd, she works for Greater Manchester Rape Crisis and We are Survivors within the OutSpoken service. She is registered with National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society (NCPS) and Association for Counselling & Therapy Online (ACTO).
““An invaluable training experience delivered engagingly and with clarity and conciseness.””
““I now feel confident and better equipped to integrate this approach into my client work.””
““The course struck an excellent balance between theory, practice and experiential work, which demystified an area I had previously found challenging.””
““A well paced informative and practical course.””