When trauma is experienced at a young age a child’s identity and way of being in the world will shape around their survival mechanisms. This will then become who they are and often goes un challenged.
Not feeling fully here in the world, being airy fairy, laid back, easy going, in their own world, always so calm, so bubbly, always kind are only a few labels/identities a person might find familiar. When we start to look beneath the surface, however, we often see unmet needs, attachment disruptions and trauma that has had a person shape their being to survive.
In this workshop you’ll learn some of the key trauma survival strategies that a person unconsciously adopts when they need to survive from a very young age. This includes 3 survival strategies that can often go unnoticed: dissociation, freeze and fawn.
In this workshop you’ll get to understand how these survival strategies can present in your adult clients, how to identify them and importantly, how to work with them.
Kate is know for her relaxed teaching style, experiential somatic practices and skill of bringing theory to life and making it applicable.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- Identify the 3 key trauma survival strategies occurring in early childhood wounding
- Learn how to work with these are they present in the therapeutic space
- Understand what is happening in the nervous system
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- Therapists and anyone with an interest in trauma
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- This workshop is designed to update therapist understanding of the nuances of relational and developmental trauma; how trauma responses often go unnoticed and how to identify trauma responses in adult clients.
Course Content
Presenter
Kate Williams has been in therapeutic practice since 2009 with a background in counselling in further education. She currently runs a busy private practice, works with NHS clients and enjoys running workshops for onlinevents and staff wellbeing workshops for NHS Hull & Humberside.
Kate is centre manager for the Bedfordshire Centre for Therapeutic Studies where she teaches on the CPCAB L5 in Somatic Trauma Therapy course & L2 Award in Breathwork Coaching as well as the Level 4 in Therapeutic Counselling.
Kate has a passion for bringing the body into her practice supporting clients to release the trauma that is held within their bodies. Kate is know for her relaxed teaching style, experiential somatic practices and skill of bringing theory to life and making it applicable.
