Two-day CPD training in Manchester for psychotherapists, counsellors and mental health professionals.
An embodied approach to working safely with trauma for you and your trauma clients. Improving their quality of life and your practice and wellbeing.
Develop safe, immediately-applicable, techniques, tools and practices to use throughout the trauma-therapy journey; from initial assessments & history-taking onwards.
Training details:
The training will focus on developing understanding of trauma, PTSD, and trauma therapy through a somatic, body–mind integrative framework, with particular emphasis on stabilisation and safety.
Theoretical material will include definitions and types of trauma, phases of working with trauma, and the impact of trauma on the body and nervous system of the client, the therapist, and the therapeutic relationship.
We will focus on developing an embodied understanding of nervous system regulation and dysregulation, including recognising bodily cues that support safety, co-regulation, and practitioner wellbeing.
We will address working safely with survival responses (fight, flight, friend, freeze, and flop), safe assessment and history-taking, and recognising, preventing, and halting unintentional re-traumatisation.
The training will also include ways of working with flashbacks and nightmares, alongside a range of body-based and somatically informed strategies and embodied and creative resources for stabilisation for therapists and helping professionals to draw on in their clinical work with clients experiencing nervous system dysregulation, distressing memories, panic, and dissociation.
Cost
£275 or £245 Earlybird if you book and pay before 13th February.
Facilitators
The training is led by Vanessa Bear and Alex Jenkins, both experienced Certified Somatic Trauma Therapists.
Vanessa Bear
is a UKCP-registered psychotherapist, certified Somatic Trauma Therapist, Clinical Supervisor (in training) and eco-therapist. working with children, adolescents and adults in the South Lakes. She is additionally trained in EMDR, yoga therapy, sensorimotor art/drawing, Movement for Trauma, sandtray and other embodied, nature-connected and creative approaches, which she weaves through her workshops and training.
Vanessa regularly facilitates trainings, workshops, retreats and presentations for organisations and helping professionals, in the UK and online, with a particular focus on safe trauma recovery, self-care for helpers and nature-based wellbeing.
Vanessa has assisted on Babette Rothschild’s Somatic Trauma Therapy training courses since 2019.
She is co-author (with Babette Rothschild) of 8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery Workbook and the forthcoming Help for the Helper Workbook, and creator of the Wild and Wellbeing Card Deck, all published by W. W. Norton.
Alex Jenkins
is an experienced integrative trauma-focused psychotherapist, a certified Somatic Trauma Therapist, a Positive Psychology practitioner and researcher, a psych-educational course developer and trainer, and an assistant on Babette Rothschild’s 12-day Somatic Trauma Therapy courses, including pro-bono adaptations supporting Polish and Ukrainian therapists working with the impacts of war. She works with adults of all ages.
Alongside her private practice, GET Therapy Ltd, she works for Greater Manchester Rape Crisis and We are Survivors within the OutSpoken service. She is registered with National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society (NCPS) and Association for Counselling & Therapy Online (ACTO).
The venue
The room we are using in Bridge 5 Mill is accessible.
“We are Manchester’s centre for social change. We operate our venue with ethical, progressive and sustainable practices. Bridge 5 Mill was refurbished using sustainable building practices and as many eco-friendly and recycled materials as possible. It is a vegetarian building, and we purchase goods from ethical and sustainable sources, including our energy. We use eco-friendly cleaning products and continuously work to improve our practices. Our solar panels and water reduction solutions help us reduce our impact.”
Getting there
Address: Bridge 5 Mill, 22a Beswick St, Manchester, M4 7HR
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Walk: The venue is around a ten minute walk from Picadilly Train Station either along the pavement/roads or along the Ashton Canal Tow Path, a very pretty walk.
Cycle: We have a secure bike shelter on site.
For Bee Network Cycle Hire you can cycle by bike or electric bike to Pollard St, Bradford Rd, or Holt Town tram stop.
Tram: Take the Metrolink blue line towards Ashton-Under-Lyne or the orange line toward Etihad Campus and stop at Holt Town (from Piccadilly Train Station, it’s 2 stops away). Then it’s a 3-minute walk up Beswick St.
Parking: Parking in the area is residential. If you need to access us by car, please call 0161 273 1736. Blue badge holders can park on any resident parking restrictions for any length of time, and double yellow lines for up to 3 hours.
Carparks within a ten minute walk include: Manchester City FC Green Car Park; New Islington Tram Stop / Pollard St. Car Park; ParkBee CitiPark - Ducie Street, Manchester.