Practitioner Certificate in Working with Trauma

This autumn Metanoia will offer a series of workshops leading to a Practitioner Certificate in Working with Trauma.Individual units may be taken alone or combined in order to gain the Certificate.

These workshops may also form an integral part of a post-qualification MSc. For further information on this please contact: Lynda Osborne.

Aims of the programme:

The primary aim of this programme is to develop competence in working with single event and complex trauma using a phased model. The course presents a phased model of working with trauma.This will include single event, PTSD and complex trauma and will draw on relevant humanistic, integrative and CBT approaches.

The course is aimed at practitioners from diverse modalities and work settings.It is suitable for counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers and others in the helping professions.Participants need to have a minimum of 100 hours supervised practice.

Learning opportunities will draw on the experience and skills of the tutors and also include opportunities to share the resources within the group.The emphasis is on the integration of theory and practice to best support participants’ clinical work.

Objectives for participants:

• Understanding the background of trauma and current research
• Developing understanding of a phased approach and the relevant knowledge and skills for each stage
• Developing the necessary assessment skills including recognition, risk assessment, resource availability and referral possibilities
• Being aware of potential ethical issues involved
• Understanding the nature of traumatic memory
• Having an overview of differing approaches to working with trauma
• Understanding a CBT approach to working with single event trauma
• Stabilising and resourcing the client
• Working safely with clients’ dual awareness
• Understanding of the body in trauma
• Avoiding re-traumatisation
• Processing and integrating traumatic memories
• Being aware of the importance of the practitioners self support, the risk of vicarious trauma and understanding co-transferential processes with particular references to this particular client group

Learning outcomes:

By the end of this course participants will be supported to:

• work more safely without re-traumatising the client
• assess levels of trauma/dysregulated arousal
• select appropriate methods of working in a phased approach
• draw on a range of resources for each phase
• pay attention to self support

Entry requirements:

Applicants must be practitioners in a helping profession with a minimum of 100 hours supervised practice.

Programme design:

The course has been structured on five 2-day modules spaced over six months to make it more possible for practitioners who are not London-based to attend the course.

For the Certificate participants need to complete at least four of the modules.Modules 3, 4 and 5 would usually all be taken.There is a subsequent written submission demonstrating the integration of theory into clinical practice.

Each module can be taken alone for professional development if you do not wish to take the certification.

Course dates:

Autumn 2012 - exact dates tbc

Teaching days start at 9.30am and end at 5.30pm at Metanoia Institute.

The Modules:

Module 1: Overview – with Sue Cowen Jensson.
In this module we will outline both the history and definition of trauma. Single event and complex developmental trauma will be considered as a continuum.This module will include current research, an overview of differing approaches to working with trauma and the nature of traumatic memory. Participants will focus on the necessary assessment skills for working with trauma including recognition, risk assessment, resource availability and referral possibilities.

Module 2: Single event trauma – with Sally Denham-Vaughan
This module with focus on a CBT approach to working with clients who present with single event trauma.Other approaches to working with single event trauma will also be included.

The following 3 modules adopt a Phased Specific Approach to Working with Complex Development Trauma.

Module 3: Stabilising - with Miriam Taylor
Traumatised people lack both an internalised and externalised sense of safety and the work at this stage is to begin to re-establish both.Participants will be encouraged to experiment with increasing the client’s capacity to self regulate through the “window of tolerance”.This will include developing awareness, psycho-education, mindfulness, sensory motor approaches and the fundamental importance of building and drawing on support networks.

Module 4: Processing the trauma - with Kim Hosier
In this module you will focus on how to work safely with the client’s dual awareness.The significance of co-transferential processes will be considered.The skills of effective intervention will be practised with memory in the present moment and, by this stage, working on the edges of the “window of tolerance”.The overarching principal is the avoid the client’s re-traumatisation.

Module 5: Integration and consolidation - with Miriam Taylor & Kim Hosier

This module will consider how clients may be supported to integrate traumatic experiences, to manage the emotions they experience and to move forwards.

A video case study will be included for discussion and as a basis for evaluation of the learning.

Trainers:

Sue Cowan-Jenssen is a UKCP registered integrative psychotherapist who works both in private practice and for five years was a Trauma Therapist at Watford General Hospital. She is an EMDR Practitioner and Consultant, specialising in post-traumatic stress and she has a training from The Tavistock Clinic, in working with the dying and bereaved. She is recognised as an accredited psychotherapist by some private medical insurance companies.

She is a founder member of the London Association of Primal Psychotherapists and of the Relational School in the UK. She has over 25 years of experience of working with individuals and groups both here and in Scandinavia. She has published articles in books, journals and magazines on a wide range of psychological issues

Sally Denham-Vaughan was originally trained as a Clinical Psychologist, Sally has over 30 year’s clinical experience in a range of mental health settings. She currently works as a Senior Clinical Leader and Consultant Clinician in the NHS and has a private training, coaching and coaching supervision practice. Sally trains Gestalt Psychotherapists and Organisational Practitioners nationally and internationally, is the International Faculty Associate at the Pacific Gestalt Institute in California and Board Advisor to The Relational Centre in Los Angeles. Her particular interest is in relational aspects of psychotherapy and organisational change with a focus on presence, embodiment and dialogue

Kim Hosier has been working with survivors of sexual violence over 15 years. She originally trained as a Social Worker.Her particular interests are working with the legacy of sexualised trauma and the relationships between sexual abuse and choice and responsibility.

Miriam Taylor has a background as a trainer in community settings.She trained as a counsellor in the mid-1990s and later as a psychotherapist.Miriam has substantial experience of working with adolescents, and was a co-ordinator of a counselling service for young people for some years.Her particular interests are in body work and working with trauma.Miriam works as a specialist therapist for a trauma service and has a small private psychotherapy and supervision practice.

Costs:

£280 Members/£320 for Non-Members per two day workshop.

To book a place, please contact Hannah Rootham

Associate Membership is open to BACP Accredited Counsellors, UKCP Registered Psychotherapists and BPS Chartered Psychologists, sponsored by two existing senior Members.

For further information about Associate Membership please email Kate Fromant or call her on 020 8832 3078