Do you work with people coming for help following experience of trauma?  This course may be for you.

As a course running over one year (one half day a week) it offers a substantial experience of learning within a supportive context, aiming to develop and enhance the practice of any professional working with the psychological aftermath of trauma.

The course primarily adopts a psychoanalytic approach to understanding and working with trauma, but is open to professionals working within any model, as it explores the specific contribution a psychoanalytic approach can make.  Core course staff are from the Tavistock Trauma Service.  This service combines trauma expertise from the adolescent and adult departments of the Tavistock, and offers psychoanalytic interventions and trauma focussed CBT.   Past students include professionals working in generic mental health settings such as clinical psychologists, counsellors, psychotherapists, and those working in more specialist settings such as professionals working with the police, medical trauma settings, refugees and asylum seekers.

Students on the course have the opportunity to present their work in a work discussion group, to learn more about psychoanalytic theory relevant to understanding trauma, and to reflect on their own personal experiences of the work in a supportive experiential group.

The course will help you

• to understand more about a psychoanalytic approach to the aftermath of trauma and the contribution it can make to work with traumatised people
• apply the concepts being studied to your own working practice

Comments from past students

'This course has really helped me to grow as a therapist and to engage more robustly with my patients'

'I feel more competent of working in-depth with trauma'

'Excellent teaching - this course has enabled me to see why the Tavi has such a good reputation'

Organising tutor
Linda Young

Time commitment
One year, Thursday afternoons.