CPD - Certificate in Working with Trauma

Trauma Intensive Training

For many therapists, trauma inevitably comes into the consulting room, it can feel overwhelming to know how best to respond. This training offers a supportive space to deepen understanding and build confidence in managing trauma in the clinical setting.

Workshop Content

Trauma Intensive is a six-day training for qualified therapists who wish to strengthen their ability to support, educate and validate clients who have experienced trauma. This training is designed to help therapists integrate a trauma informed approach into their existing practice. Each day combines clinical theory with practice-based learning: Mornings focus on theoretical frameworks and ways of weaving trauma-informed thinking into psychotherapeutic work. Afternoons offer opportunities for clinical application, experiential exercises, and focused supervision in a supportive

group setting.

Days 1-2

Recognising trauma and regulating the nervous system covers core definitions of trauma, with an emphasis on how clinical understanding of trauma has significantly changed. We consider the intersection between the traumatic environment and how this shows up in the body. We learn how to develop a respectful collaborative approach with our clients as we consider

how a traumatic environment has impacted the body (body function, behaviour, physiological responses, nervous system, emotional regulation).

Days 3-4

We focus on working respectfully with our client's experiences of trauma. We cover the importance of co-regulation when working with trauma. Practitioners learn to focus on validating the ways traumatic experiences in the past, impact current life, with emphasis on environment, the body, relationships, and feelings of self-worth and sense of shame. Techniques focus on clients gaining a sense of mastery and empowerment in places

where they may have felt alone, or helpless in the past.

Days 5-6 

Living with trauma is complex and clients can feel as if there is only space for survival. In the final two days we work on clients learning some mastery in controlling their stress responses, environments and life as well as understanding and mourning what is out of their control. Clients learn an increased capacity to come back from dark places. In these final training days we allow space for our clients to re-imagine their future, with more moments for connection, healing and recovery. 

A CPD Certificate of attendance will be awarded following the completion of this workshop.

Dates: 

7th & 8th February

7th & 8th March

18th & 19th April

Time:

10 am – 4 pm

Cost: 

£875

Early bird rate (if booked before December 1st) £750

The Practice members £625

payment in instalments available

Meet the Trainer

Natasha de Meric is an experienced Psychodynamic Psychotherapist and Counsellor (BACP registered and UKCP accredited). Alongside her core psychodynamic training, Natasha has undertaken extensive specialist training in trauma, including:

• EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) practitioner (Levels 1–4) and member of the EMDR Association
• Level 1 certificate in the Integrated EMDR and Internal Family Systems (IFS) model. 
• Has written several articles on working with clients who experienced trauma and complex trauma. 

Natasha brings many years of clinical and teaching experience to her work. She spent nine years as a staff counsellor in a mental health hospital, and has also taught as an associate lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London. She now works in private practice with a particular focus on adults who have experienced childhood trauma.

In addition to her clinical practice, Natasha founded Time for Change (www.timeforchange.org), a collective of therapists who come together to think openly and vulnerably about the aspects of our work that can feel difficult to name. She is committed to bringing openness and humanity into

challenging spaces. Natasha’s teaching is known for its warmth, depth and embodied, experiential approach.

Feedback from previous workshops:

“Natasha has a beautiful way

       of bringing even the most difficult 

       subjects to life.”

“Your lectures and playful way of

       delivering them has a strong link 

       to my journey. Thank you!”

“Natasha’s workshops are truly

       profound – deeply human and 

       connecting.”