How to Avoid Retraumatization: Core Principles for Safe Trauma Work

How to Avoid Retraumatization: Core Principles for Safe Trauma Work Workshop with Kate Williams

There has been a rapid rise in trauma training in recent years, bringing many models and methods into mainstream clinical practice. Yet trauma-informed work requires more than techniques. It depends on a solid grounding in the principles that help practitioners work safely, minimise the risk of retraumatisation, and protect their own wellbeing as they hold clients’ stories and states.

Trauma nearly always emerges in the context of relationship, which means the therapeutic relationship is both the container for healing and the place where unintentional harm can occur. Without a clear framework for pacing, resourcing, attunement, and working within a client’s window of tolerance, therapists can become overwhelmed, and clients can re-experience states they are not yet ready to process.

This workshop offers an accessible and clinically focused overview of the core principles that underpin safe trauma work.

Participants will explore:

• How retraumatisation happens and how to recognise early signs .
• Core elements of a trauma-safe therapeutic stance.
• How to assess and support a client’s window of tolerance.
• Practical strategies for pacing, titration, and maintaining safety in session.
• Ways to protect practitioners from secondary trauma and overwhelm.

The session provides a clear foundation you can integrate into any therapeutic modality, helping you work with trauma in a steady, responsive, and trauma-safe way.

Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event

• Learn the 3-phase trauma treatment approach and the trauma principles for safe trauma work.
• Learn the key skills of titration and pendulation for safe practice.
• Learn how to identify activation and shutdown and importantly how you help your client safely come into a place of safety.

Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?

• Therapists who would like to upskill and feel confident in their work with trauma.

How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?

• Develop confidence in working with clients who have experienced trauma.

RECORDING 

This event will be recorded and you can use the ticket function to pre-purchase the recording before the event. This will be useful for colleagues who are not able to attend the event live and also for those who attend the event live and want to watch it again.

ZOOM 

This event will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our cameras and microphones to interact with each other as a group.

SELF-SELECT FEE

The self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00, however, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training.

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If you are not a member of a professional organisation, we ask that you participate in a way that is both authentic and respectful, fostering a space of mutual learning and professional engagement.

By registering for this event, you agree to be present and interact in a manner that reflects these principles.

Kate Williams

Kate Williams has been in therapeutic practice since 2009 with a background in counselling in further education. She currently runs a busy private practice, works with NHS clients and enjoys running workshops for onlinevents and staff wellbeing workshops for NHS Hull & Humberside.

Kate is centre manager for the Bedfordshire Centre for Therapeutic Studies where she teaches on the CPCAB L6 in Attachment, Parts and Inner Child work, CPCAB L5 in Somatic Trauma Therapy course & L3 Award in Breathwork Coaching as well as the Level 4 in Therapeutic Counselling.

Kate has a passion for bringing the body into her practice supporting clients to release the trauma that is held within their bodies. Kate is know for her relaxed teaching style, experiential somatic practices and skill of bringing theory to life and making it applicable.

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