Consultation and training
We offer bespoke training and consultancy sessions to meet the needs of your organisation. We will always take time to speak with key team members to understand your team's particular resources and challenges, working collaboratively with you to develop training and interventions which meet the unique needs of your team.
Our consultancy services and trauma-informed practice audits guide you in the development of trauma-informed policies and practices to benefit not only your service users, but also to enhance staff wellbeing and promote organisational resilience.
We work with a range of organisations and professionals including lawyers, voluntary sector workers, researchers, and humanitarian workers, as well as NHS and social care professionals.
Sector-specific training modules we currently offer include:
- Trauma-informed legal practice: including, for example, taking instructions safely and sensitively from vulnerable clients; understanding the impact of trauma on memory, disclosure, and perceived credibility
- Introduction to culturally sensitive practice: including, for example, cross-cultural working in your setting (mental health, physical health, legal settings); understanding the impact of cultural and racial trauma; working with interpreters
- Clinical and therapeutic skills for working in mental health settings with trauma survivors
- Working with refugees, asylum seekers and victims of trafficking
- Working with survivors of sexual and domestic violence
- Working with adult survivors of childhood abuse
- Identifying and mitigating moral injury and distress
- Identifying and preventing vicarious traumatisation and burnout and enhancing vicarious resilience and post -traumatic growth
- Trauma-informed practice in Primary Care
- Identifying traumatic brain injury
Training in trauma-informed organisational practice includes:
- Understanding the impact of trauma on individuals, teams and systems
- Strategies for embedding trauma-informed practice into people management, policy, and culture
- Trauma-informed leadership
- Creating emotionally safe, inclusive spaces
- Responding to staff distress in a supportive way while maintaining boundaries and ensuring psychological safety for all
- Managing disclosure and safeguarding
- Psychoeducation: how to identify signs of vicarious trauma, empathy fatigue, burnout, anxiety, and low mood associated with work for those with management responsibility
- Basic strategies for peer support and self-care
