Homelessness & multiple disadvantage: responses to address women's trauma

Homelessness & multiple disadvantage: responses to address women's trauma

Two presentations sharing expert practice and emerging research:

Therapy of Presence: a model of therapy adapted to engage people with complex needs

Drawing together the learning from 20 years of working therapeutically with women trapped in exploitation and survival sex, a model of therapy emerged which allows women who find themselves marginalised by services to address both current and historic trauma. The model has been client led, and is adaptated to overcome some of the barriers which have kept people with complex histories out in the cold.

Pippa Hockton founded Street Talk in 2005, a registered charity which takes therapy to women on the street. She has been practising psychotherapy since the early 1990s.

Precarious trust: Are we thinking enough about relationships in women’s journeys through homelessness and violence?

Drawing on interviews with women experiencing homelessness and practitioners, the webinar explores the relational impact of gender-based violence and homelessness when seeking help and accessing support. Trust, safety and relational continuity are often absent or precarious, highlighting the importance of building effective support to enable care and recovery in women’s homelessness trajectories.

Carolin Hess is an NIHR SSCR-funded PhD student at HSCWRU, King's College London and Research Fellow at Nottingham Trent University, whose research supports the evaluation of Changing Futures Nottingham.