Support survivors safely.

Trauma-recovery training for organisations.

If your organisation serves the public in any way, chances are you’re already working with trauma survivors. Whether or not those stories have been disclosed, they’re present.

How your staff responds can shape whether survivors move closer to safety and recovery, or retreat further into silence or danger.

Protect both trauma survivors and your team.

This training provides your organisation with the clinical understanding and practical tools to work more safely and effectively with trauma survivors. All within a clear, structured, informed framework.

Who this training is for

This training is tri-structured for teams, organisations and individual professionals who work with the public. It’s for leaders and staff in settings such as:

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Training institutes and crisis centres (such as women’s aid)

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Local government and councils

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Schools and educational authorities

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Police and frontline services

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Legal teams and court advocates

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Forensic network and allied agents

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Social care and safeguarding teams

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Healthcare providers (like dentists, doctors, physiotherapy) and charitable trusts

If your organisation engages with people affected by trauma, this training is relevant.

What your team will learn

This is not a one-size-fits-all trauma training. It is specialist clinical training developed to help organisations understand:

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What trauma actually is and how it shows up in behaviour and communication

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How to hold structure, clarity and boundaries while staying engaged and compassionate

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What “safety” really means for survivors, and how to co-create safeguarding blocks of data at every stage of contact

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Why forensic awareness matters and how trauma-informed practice prevents harm

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How to recognise signs of dissociation, shutdown, and trauma-related responses

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How to reduce risk, increase continuity and avoid retraumatisation

Your team will receive the building blocks for safer intervention, the right language, and with confidence in their work.

Trauma survivors often can’t disclose what they’ve experienced for years, sometimes ever. On average it takes a child 25 years to find the words and verbalise what has happened to them. 

Learn how to use the Four S’s

When your organisation is trauma-informed, survivors of trauma experience an increased sense of being met with care. 

Your team will learn how to recognise the signs, symptoms and physical spots that indicate trauma. They will also learn how to safeguard themselves and the survivors from risk. 

What are the Four S’s?

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Signs

Survivors of child abuse reveal signs of hurt and harm in the tri-structured clinical interview process. 

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Symptoms

The body often holds the score in the form of symptoms of hate (self-hate, etc) and violence.

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Spots

Sensorial scars of trauma wounds or piercings need clinical interpretation and protection.

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Safeguarding

Risk assessment is central to safeguard interventions when the trauma has been relational.

You and your team will learn how to assess the four risks (risk to self, risk from self, risk from others, risk to others) in this training. 

Anyone working with a trauma survivor is working forensically.

Participant feedback

Transformative training that truly makes a difference.

She highlights unseen aspects that shed light onto clinical cases, including recognition of dissociative symptoms and ways of managing risk.

— Psychotherapist

Carolynne is an outstanding supervisor with a specialist focus on clinical issues of complexity and risk.

- Psychotherapist

Her extensive experience of working in forensic therapy was evident from the outset. She worked with consistent skill and dedication throughout a sophisticated five-year therapy.

Psychiatrist

This invaluable experience enriched my practice and greatly increased my confidence and understanding when working with people with complex needs and fluctuating risk, across all domains.

Psychiatrist

There was universal warm praise for the course from participants, some of whom had travelled from Italy to attend, which I know was also reflected in excellent formal feedback.

Psychiatrist

Carolynne was an excellent role model and teacher, always [maintaining] her calm and positive, constructive approach. We all learned a great deal

- Psychiatrist

Next steps

If you’d like to discuss how this training can support your organisation, I’d be glad to explore your needs and tailor the work accordingly.