This is a must-do workshop for all those working with trauma.
This workshop will support you in carrying out a trauma-informed assessment in both an agency setting and private practice (both short and long term work). Gaining a quick insight into your clients nervous system and trauma patterns will hugely inform your work together as well as understanding when to appropriately refer ensuring that you are working within your competency range.
Using trauma-informed assessment skills will help you to:
- Identify your clients trauma type for appropriate trauma work
- Identify short-term explicit goals (e.g. appropriate resourcing)
- Longer term implicit goals (e.g. relational patterns)
- Your clients nervous system default
- Mild, moderate and severe mental health issues
- Provide appropriate psycho-ed
- Consider power & privilege
- Identify and understand your countertransference
- Balance relational skills with assessment skills
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- Competently adapt your current assessment for your trauma clients
- Explore a range of assessment evaluation tools for trauma work
- Explore how to formulate a treatment plan with trauma clients
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- Therapists wishing to develop their assessment skills
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- To develop your assessment skills and sharpen your trauma-informed skills
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.
