Complex Trauma - Southend-on-Sea

Training - Complex Trauma (NCPS Quality Checked)

Complex trauma usually means multiple traumatic experiences (such as multiple experiences of childhood abuse) with the subsequent post-trauma symptoms and struggles that follow. Trauma inherently feels unsafe for clients, but complex trauma can be particularly tricky to navigate: The concept of safety may feel foreign or unsafe to clients. How do we create therapeutic safety, if there is none?

We will explore how complex trauma differs in presentation from singular trauma. We will also look at sexual abuse in more depth: The concept of consent (legally speaking), pre-trial therapy and the taboos clients struggle with. We will also briefly cover domestic abuse and stalking (as well as high risk indicators). There has been further research around trauma and attachment, and how certain survival states might be connected to particular attachment styles. How can that information inform our work to increase the safety for…