About this event
Trauma is considered a ‘wound’. Trauma is different from stress, in that we survive it, rather than ‘cope’ with it. Survival strategies include fight, flight, freeze, disconnect and shut-down, please and appease and attachment-cry.
Because of these survival states, our clients may often present with dysregulation in their nervous system, which may look like hyper-arousal (mobilisation through the sympathetic nervous system) or hypo-arousal (immobilisation through the dorsal vagus).
This workshop will focus on various safety and regulation techniques you can use as a professional when you work with traumatised clients, so that clients start to feel safer within themselves, others and the world around them. This is in line with the 3-Phase Trauma Model, originally developed by Janet and later Herman.
The safety techniques we will cover include:
- Using our own regulated nervous system
- Using an anchor
- Container exercise
- Grounding Techniques
- Breathing techniques
- Dual awareness
And much more!
This workshop will include a demonstration of the Anchor, which allows for more experiential learning.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- To gain knowledge and an understanding of a variety of safety techniques relating to the nervous system.
- To be able to discern which techniques resonate most, so that participants can start to implement them safely with traumatised clients.
- Participants recognise which state of the nervous system might benefit most from which particular technique.
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- Student and qualified counsellors, psychotherapists, hypnotherapists, psychologists, social workers, support workers, nurses, GP’s, psychiatrists, mental health workers, probation officers, and anyone else who works with trauma.
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- When you start to incorporate these techniques, you are supporting your client to become more regulated, which helps them to feel safer within themselves, with others and in the world around them.
ZOOM
This workshop will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our cameras and microphones to interact with each other as a group.
SELF-SELECT FEE
The self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00, however, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training.
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All the colleagues at ONLINEVENTS and the presenters we collaborate with are committed to working in a manner consistent with the BACP Ethical Framework, which can be accessed on the link below. When registering for this event you are agreeing to be present and interact in a manner that is consistent with this Framework.
Maaike Beech
Maaike is a MBACP, SNCPS and EMDR UK Accredited counsellor / psychotherapist with a specialty as a Trauma Clinician. She has worked with trauma for over 17 years’ and has trained in TF-CBT, Clinical Supervision, the Rewind-Technique, EMDR Level 1, 2 and 3, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level 1 and IFS Level 1.
Maaike originally trained as a counsellor in the Netherlands, whilst working for Victim Support and General Counselling Departments, with a specialty in domestic abuse. After immigrating to England, Maaike has also worked for a Hospice, counselling college, Rape Crisis and the Children’s Society, who work with refugees, migrants, trafficking and exploitation. She has set-up several counselling services for various organisations and is an experienced group therapist.
Maaike currently works as a Clinical Lead for the Children’s Society and is the Director of The Beech Practice Ltd. where she provides predominantly long-term psychotherapy to traumatised clients. Maaike also runs the Beech Trauma Academy, which provides a NCPS Quality Checked Foundation Diploma called “Therapeutic Safety in Trauma”, a Diploma in Trauma-Informed Clinical Supervision and a Trauma-Informed Leadership Program.
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