TRAUMA IN THERAPY: THE PRACTICE OF STABILISATION (2025)
Course Content
Course Information
Course Information
- This applied training course will review principles that underpin the importance of stabilisation when working with trauma presentations.
- Research demonstrates that most adults presenting for psychotherapy and counselling have experienced some form of childhood trauma, thus this approach can be useful across much of our client base.
- Through practical methods and experiential delivery, this training course focuses on application when working with clients presenting with traumatic material.
- This will include those who have experienced complex trauma that has shaped their development and identity. We will also consider working with clients who have experienced a recent traumatic incident, including where a traumatic incident in the present has revealed a deeper trauma history.
- We will look at techniques for client stabilisation, both in the room and in every day life; a crucial yet often underappreciated aspect of working with presentations involving trauma.
- The course will explore the need for a balance between stabilisation and appropriate processing, where overemphasis on/insufficient stabilisation can strengthen defences, and potentially tip into avoidance of processing difficult material, from both the client and the therapist.
- The training will also consider assessment and formulation, as well as some common interpersonal challenges around working with trauma, again with a practical emphasis on how therapists can work relationally with their clients.
Attendees can expect to gain:
- A core theoretical understanding of trauma and how this presents in the room, and a solid introduction to working psychotherapeutically with trauma presentations.
- A revised understanding of working within the stabilisation phase of the triphasic approach.
- Enhanced ability to understand and work with avoidance in trauma treatment.
- A good grasp on common issues around assessment and formulation.
- Ability to reflect more deeply on the interpersonal/relational aspects of the work.
Course Information
Course Information
Course Information
- Course structure: 3 x 4 hour sessions (same time each week for three consecutive weeks), taking place on Zoom (timings include comfort breaks.)
- The next course runs on: Saturdays 25th January; 8th February, and 22nd February 2025
- Timings: 9am-1pm UK time
- Fee: £250 for the full course, payable in full at time of booking. Sessions are not bookable separately.
Further information
- This course is for qualified psychotherapists and counsellors, and those on a recognised training course with some clinical experience.
- Please provide evidence of qualification (or accreditation with a recognised body e.g. UKCP, BACP, BABCP, NCPS, COSRT)/enrolment on a recognised training course at time of booking.
- Please email SPACEStherapy with any specific access requirements at time of booking.
- If you need to cancel your place contact info@spacestherapy.co.uk as soon as possible. Cancellation requests received more than four weeks before the first session are refundable at 50% of the ticket fee. There will be no refunds for cancellation requests received less than four weeks before the first session.
- Trainer/speaker views expressed are the individual’s own, and do not necessarily represent those of SPACEStherapy. SPACEStherapy is not liable for any views expressed.
- SPACEStherapy reserves the right to make reasonable changes to the programme if necessary.
- In the unlikely event that SPACEStherapy would need to cancel a training event attendees will be offered a replacement date, or a full refund of the ticket price.
About the trainer
Ben Gatty is an integrative psychotherapist, supervisor and university lecturer. Click here to learn more about Ben.