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Expert Training on Childhood Trauma & Trauma-Informed Care

Organisations are welcome to contact me to arrange a workshop date tailored for their staff training needs. Workshops available:

Working With Childhood Memories Within Short-Term Treatment Models

1.5-hour seminar + Q&A

This seminar provides practical strategies for integrating childhood memory work within short-term or time-limited interventions. It demonstrates how focused exploration of early experiences can support symptom relief, emotional regulation, and improved mental health outcomes, even within brief treatment frameworks.

Clinicians will learn structured ways to guide clients safely through relevant childhood memories to enhance trauma recovery and engagement.
Recommended for practitioners working with survivors of domestic violence, childhood and complex trauma, addiction, and eating disorders.

Accelerate and Brake: Childhood Memories and Natural Avoidance in Trauma Counselling

3-hour workshop + Q&A

This workshop examines how childhood memories frequently surface in trauma counselling and how natural avoidance often follows. It addresses cultural barriers, the need to protect family of origin, and the reluctance to stay with painful early experiences.

Participants will learn how to identify avoidance in sessions and support clients to work through treatment barriers. The focus is on maintaining engagement, preventing therapy dropout, and helping clients move beyond being stuck.

Recommended for counsellors working with survivors of childhood trauma, complex trauma, domestic violence, addiction, and related adversity.

Safety in Clinical Supervision

3-hour interactive workshop for supervisors and practitioners

This interactive workshop explores the foundations of safety, collaboration, and trust in clinical supervision. It addresses common dilemmas such as trust versus performance anxiety, evaluation versus openness to vulnerability, and risk management versus allowing time for professional growth.

Participants will examine how these dynamics shape supervision relationships and impact reflective practice, accountability, and clinical confidence. The workshop offers a practical framework for supervisors and supervisees to strengthen safety, address power imbalances, and enhance the overall effectiveness of the supervisory process.

Suitable for both supervisors and practitioners seeking to deepen their understanding of supervision as a safe and productive space for growth and learning.

Invisible Trauma: Treating Emotional Abuse in Childhood

Full-day workshop for mental health professionals

This workshop focuses on the treatment of clients who have experienced emotional abuse in childhood, including dynamics such as parentification, enmeshment, and personality disturbance within parent–child relationships. Participants will examine how to identify and address “invisible” forms of trauma that often present with shame, guilt, and other barriers to recovery.

Through in-depth discussion, clinical case examples, and practical intervention strategies, the workshop strengthens clinicians’ capacity to work with complex relational trauma. Participants will engage in reflective dialogue, apply trauma-informed frameworks, and develop greater confidence in supporting long-term healing from emotional neglect and abuse.