TRAUMA & PTSD

What’s Included:

 

This training provides a comprehensive, trauma‑informed framework for understanding and working with trauma and PTSD. You’ll explore how trauma affects the brain, body and behaviour, how to stabilise clients safely, and how to use hypnotherapeutic approaches that support recovery, integration and resilience.

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You’ll explore:

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• Background and terminology

Key definitions, diagnostic language, trauma classifications, and how trauma and PTSD are conceptualised within psychological and clinical frameworks.

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• Types of trauma and presentations
  Single‑incident trauma, complex trauma, developmental trauma, cumulative trauma, and the full range of PTSD symptom clusters.

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• Symptomology and severity
  How trauma affects the nervous system, memory, sleep, cognition, mood and behaviour; understanding hyperarousal, hypoarousal, avoidance, intrusive symptoms and dissociative subtypes.

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• Related or overlapping conditions
  Conditions that may mimic or coexist with trauma, including anxiety disorders, depression, dissociation, personality adaptations, chronic stress responses and somatic presentations.

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• Psychological and emotional factors
  The role of attachment, emotional regulation, shame, identity disruption, relational patterns, and the impact of chronic stress on coping and resilience.

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• Children and young people
  How trauma presents differently in younger clients, developmental considerations, safeguarding, and adapting hypnotherapeutic approaches for safe, age‑appropriate work.

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• Assessment, screening and formulation
  Identifying trauma histories, red flags, dissociation, stabilisation needs, and how to build a safe, phased treatment plan.

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• Stabilisation and safety
  Grounding, resourcing, emotional regulation, containment, pacing, and building internal and external safety before any processing work.

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• Working with triggers, flashbacks and dissociation
  How to recognise, manage and reduce reactivity; understanding dissociative responses; supporting clients to stay within their window of tolerance.

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• Hypnotherapeutic treatment
  Approaches that support stabilisation, emotional regulation, reconnection, integration and post‑traumatic growth; adapting trance work for trauma‑sensitive practice.

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• Treatment approaches
  Overview of medical, behavioural and psychotherapeutic interventions used in trauma recovery, and how hypnotherapy integrates within a wider trauma‑informed model.

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• Support networks
  Key organisations, trauma services, crisis resources and community support available to clients.

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• Case studies
  Realistic examples illustrating trauma presentations, stabilisation needs, treatment planning, therapeutic pacing and hypnotherapeutic interventions.

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Additional Info:

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​CPD Hours: 15

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Cost: £125 (discount available to returning students)

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