Therapy Skills Training
Vanessa Bear is a UKCP-registered psychotherapist, certified Somatic Trauma Therapist, Clinical Supervisor (in training) and eco-therapist. working with children, adolescents and adults in the South Lakes. She is additionally trained in EMDR, yoga therapy, sensorimotor art/drawing, Movement for Trauma, sandtray and other embodied, nature-connected and creative approaches, which she weaves through her workshops and training.
Vanessa regularly facilitates trainings, workshops, retreats and presentations for organisations and helping professionals, in the UK and online, with a particular focus on safe trauma recovery, self-care for helpers and nature-based wellbeing.
Vanessa has assisted on Babette Rothschild’s Somatic Trauma Therapy training courses since 2019.
She is co-author (with Babette Rothschild) of 8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery Workbook and the forthcoming Help for the Helper Workbook, and creator of the Wild and Wellbeing Card Deck, all published by W. W. Norton.
Alex Jenkins is an experienced integrative trauma-focused psychotherapist, a certified Somatic Trauma Therapist, a Positive Psychology practitioner and researcher, a psych-educational course developer and trainer, and an assistant on Babette Rothschild’s 12-day Somatic Trauma Therapy courses, including pro-bono adaptations supporting Polish and Ukrainian therapists working with the impacts of war. She works with adults of all ages.
Alongside her private practice, GET Therapy Ltd, she works for Greater Manchester Rape Crisis and We are Survivors within the OutSpoken service. She is registered with National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society (NCPS) and Association for Counselling & Therapy Online (ACTO).