Name: Training - Refugees, Migrants & Trauma (NCPS Quality Checked)
Start: 2025-04-06T09:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-04-06T16:30:00+01:00
Location: 29 Alexandra St

Training - Refugees, Migrants & Trauma (NCPS Quality Checked)

Experiential training focusing on the different traumas and difficulties refugees, migrants and victims of trafficking & exploitation face.
About this Event

Training - Refugees, Migrants, Trafficking & Exploitation vs. Trauma (NCPS Quality Checked)

The topic of refugees, migrants, asylum seekers, exploitation and trafficking is often in the news. These clients have often experienced trauma and loss on 3 different levels:

In their country of origin
On the journey to the UK
Within England as well

On top of that, there may be a variety of legal challenges, including age assessments and asylum claims (or appeals).

This training will shed some light on the challenges this clientele might face and specific traumas they might have experienced (including exploitation, trafficking and FGM). We will have a brief look at cultural identity and cultural awareness, using a systemic approach. We will explore how to increase therapeutic safety with often presenting complex trauma cases and we'll practice on various fictional cases.

We will have the chance of working with a live Dutch "client", giving us a chance to practice with some of the technicalities and challenges of working with an interpreter in a triad.

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 8th 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.