Name: Training - Trauma & Suicide (NCPS Quality Checked)
Start: 2025-02-09T09:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-02-09T16:30:00+00:00
Location: 29 Alexandra St

Training - Trauma & Suicide (NCPS Quality Checked)

An experiential training to learn how to safely work with traumatised clients who also struggle with suicidal thoughts and/or planning.
About this Event

Training - Trauma and Suicide (NCPS Quality Checked)

Research has shown that there is a connection between trauma and suicide. Simply put: Clients who have experienced trauma may also experience suicidal ideation or planning at some point. This training day will give you hands-on experience in putting some of the theory in practice. We will cover risk factors and protective factors related to suicide, but also how it connects to trauma.

This training brings in a "live client" (a safe actress, who is also a PhD qualified mental health professional), so that we can actively practice with some of the theory. We will put the 3 steps of a 1st conversation into practice:

1. Say the words (E.g. "Are you telling me you don't want to live?")

2. Explore the risk (suicidal ideation vs. planning)

3. Safety planning

Whilst exploring the world of the client, what is going on for them in a safe way, we will also monitor for any signs of dysregulation, so that we can increase therapeutic safety for the client. The focus will also be heavily on our own safety and regulation, as this is a key part in co-regulation (one of the principles of polyvagal theory). After all, therapeutic safety starts with us as professionals! The group learns together as a whole, rather than an individual taking on the session. We will also explore the latest NICE Guidelines around suicide and the topic of self-harm.

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 6th 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.