Complex trauma usually means multiple traumatic experiences (such as multiple experiences of childhood abuse) with the subsequent post-trauma symptoms and struggles that follow. Trauma inherently feels unsafe for clients, but complex trauma can be particularly tricky to navigate: The concept of safety may feel foreign or unsafe to clients. How do we create therapeutic safety, if there is none?
We will explore how complex trauma differs in presentation from singular trauma. We will also look at sexual abuse in more depth: The concept of consent (legally speaking), pre-trial therapy and the taboos clients struggle with. We will also briefly cover domestic abuse and stalking (as well as high risk indicators). There has been further research around trauma and attachment, and how certain survival states might be connected to particular attachment styles. How can that information inform our work to increase the safety for clients?
We will explore and discuss various ways of how, within the legal framework (e.g. of pre-trial therapy) you might work to help you client feel safer within themselves and with others. This is often long-term work with no quick fix.
This training is experiential in nature. This means you will have the chance to discuss and practice with some of the things we will be covering. The training is suitable for both student and qualified counsellors and psychotherapists, as well as related professions.
This Training Day can be taken on its own, or as the 5th training day as part of the NCPS Quality Checked 10-day Foundation Diploma - Therapeutic Safety in Trauma. It is taught face-to-face in the area of Grays - Essex.
