Embracing Recovery from Trauma
About this Event

A gentle introduction to trauma therapies including EMDR you will learn:

Nice guidance related therapies for trauma
you will consider the relational context to benefit from these and
you will leave with at least one technique to help soothe and recover from trauma

Your Facilitator

Steph Hunter - Speaker, Trainer, Social Worker, Therapist
NNEB, Dip S/W. BA, BSC, MA, PGCE, FHEA, Advanced Award in Social Work

Steph has been a social worker for 26 years. During her career, she has worked in Cafcass, children and families, and substance misuse. The main focus of her career has been children's mental health and she managed an award-winning mental health service for children and adopted children for over a decade. This won three national awards and three regional NHS awards. From 2015 to 2019 Steph was a Senior Lecturer at Sunderland University. Steph is a qualified therapist, author, trainer. More recently she has worked as Head of quality and practice and Prinicipal Social Worker.

Your Host

Lisa Cherry is the Director of Trauma Informed Consultancy Services Ltd leading a dynamic and creative organisation that provides a 'one stop' approach to delivering on research, consultancy and learning and development. Lisa is an author, researcher, leading international trainer and consultant, specialising in assisting schools, services and systems to create systemic change to the way that we work with those experiencing and living with, the legacy of trauma. Lisa has been working in and around Education and Children’s Services for over 30 years and combines academic knowledge and research with professional expertise and personal experience. Lisa has worked extensively with Social workers, Educators, Probation Workers and those in Adult Services, training and speaking to over 30,000 people around the world including in the US, Australia and Pakistan and across the whole of the UK.

Lisa has produced multiple pieces of research for various settings and Lisa's own MA research looked at the impact on education and employment for care experienced adults who experienced school exclusion as children in the 1970's and 1980's. Lisa has recently completed her DPhil research at The University of Oxford in the Department of Education, asking the research question "How do care experienced adults who were also excluded from school make sense of belonging?"

Lisa is the author of the hugely successful book 'Conversations that make a difference for Children and Young People' (2021)and ‘The Brightness of Stars’ 3rd Edition published in June 2022. Lisa is working on her latest book due for publication in 2024/2025 on Cultivating Belonging.