Name: Training - Complex Trauma (NCPS Quality Checked)
Start: 2025-01-12T09:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-01-12T16:30:00+00:00
Location: 29 Alexandra St

Learn more about how complex trauma presents itself in clients, 'safe' feeling 'unsafe', consent, pre-trial therapy and attachment.
About this Event

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 clients? We will discuss trauma-bonds and the complexity around this.

We will explore and discuss various ways of how, within the legal framework (e.g. of pre-trial therapy) you might work to help you client feel safer within themselves and with others. This is often long-term work with no quick fix.

This training is experiential in nature: You will have the chance to discuss and practice with some of the things we will be covering. 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 5th 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 Southend-on-Sea.

About the Trainer - Maaike Beech

Maaike is a MBACP and NCPS Senior Accredited counsellor and psychotherapist with a specialty as a Trauma Clinician. She has been working with trauma for over 16 years’ and has trained in TF-CBT, Rewind-Technique, EMDR Level 1, 2 and 3, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level 1 and is currently training in IFS. 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.