Name: Creative Ways of Working in Trauma - London
Start: 2025-06-16T09:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-06-16T16:30:00+01:00
Location: 154 Southampton Row

Creative Ways of Working in Trauma - London

NCPS Quality Checked Training that focuses on utilising creativity when working with traumatised clients, e.g. through Playmobil figures.
About this Event

Training - Creative Ways of Working in Trauma (NCPS Quality Checked)

Creativity can be a beautiful way to find an alternative of communicating with traumatised clients, as it bypasses the 'logical' cognitive brain. It gives clients a chance to verbalise that which cannot be verbalised. It can be very powerful. We will cover various principles to incorporate creativity in a safe way with traumatised clients.

This day you will be introduced to working with Playmobil figures, as they represent different family members, friends or other relations, as well as parts of the self. Survival states can be visualised with Playmobil figures and be used in an interactive way. It allows the client to explore what is going on for them on the inside from a slightly more distant perspective. We therefore use 'third-party' language and how it relates to parts: "I wonder what is going on for that part there?"

You will also be introduced to alternative creative ways of working and how they can be utilised when working with traumatised clients, including:

* Visual cards

* Play Doh

* Stones

* Drawings

We will briefly explore the application of creative ways of working to clinical supervision and group work.

Who is this training for:

The training is suitable for both student and qualified counsellors, psychotherapists, social workers, psychologists, support workers, GP's, psychiatrists, hypnotherapists, as well as any other mental health professional who works with trauma or wants to work with traumatised clients.

This Training Day can be taken on its own, or as the 3rd CPD-Training day as part of the NCPS Quality Checked 10-day Foundation Diploma - Therapeutic Safety in Trauma. It is taught face-to-face in London.

About the Trainer - Maaike Beech

Maaike is a MBACP Accredited, NCPS Senior Accredited and EMDR UK Accredited counsellor and psychotherapist with a specialty as a Trauma Clinician. She has been working with trauma for over 17 years’ and has trained in TF-CBT, Rewind-Technique, EMDR Level 1, 2 and 3, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level 1 and IFS Level 1. Maaike works as a Clinical Lead for the Children's Society for all counsellors, psychotherapists, and clinical supervisors. She is also the Director of The Beech Practice Ltd. She is a qualified clinical supervisor and runs a Diploma in Trauma-Informed Clinical Supervision, as well as a NCPS Quality Checked Foundation Diploma called “Therapeutic Safety in Trauma”.

Maaike originally trained as a counsellor in the Netherlands, whilst working for Victim Support and General Counselling Departments, with a specialty in domestic abuse. Maaike has also worked for a Hospice, 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.