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The Complex Trauma Training Hub – Live!

Live and recorded training and support for psychotherapists and counsellors

APPLY NOW for The Hub Live

Come and train with me in the Complex Trauma Training Hub

Run by Carolyn Spring with Sally Atkinson, the Complex Trauma Training Hub is a professional development and training membership for counsellors and psychotherapists who work with complex trauma – to ensure that they’re:

  • properly trauma-informed
  • ‘doing no harm’
  • equipped to navigate the challenges of disorganised attachment
  • working both ethically and effectively
  • supported, not isolated
  • and able to avoid and mitigate secondary trauma.

Why join the Hub Live?

Since 2010 I’ve provided training to tens of thousands of therapists. I’ve delivered hundreds of 1:1 consultations. I’ve supported counselling centres and mental health facilities both in the UK and overseas. And so I’ve worked with therapists worldwide who face similar challenges: trauma which is profoundly stuck, difficulty for the therapist in maintaining the therapeutic frame, and challenges in managing the intensity of the work.

Therapists want to know what a roadmap for recovery looks like and what exactly they should be doing in sessions with their most traumatised and vulnerable clients. How do you work with trauma without either retraumatising the client or being traumatised yourself? How do you move beyond the stuckness? How do you work with ruptures and attachment challenges?

And that’s what we’re all about. We provide essential support and live, interactive training where we help you work through the unique challenges of working with complex trauma.

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Flexibility

  • attend live training sessions via Zoom 2-3.30pm on Fridays, or occasionally at other times
  • attend a monthly discussion/process group with Sally Atkinson 6.30pm-7.50pm on Wednesdays
  • other live sessions at other times
  • if you can’t attend live, watch recordings of sessions or other training on-demand
  • watch clips, read articles, and interact in discussion groups even if you only have 5 minutes to spare
  • access everything in one place via a website and app, available 24/7

Benefits

  • both tutor-guided discussion groups and live interactive training sessions with Carolyn (come to as many or as few as you want to)
  • an extensive video training library including recordings of live sessions (100+ hours of existing content) plus all of Carolyn’s existing training
  • weekly discussion questions and peer networking and support
  • downloadable and printable resources to use with your clients
  • new client referrals where appropriate

Costs & Criteria

Qualified counsellors and therapists: £65 pcm (inc VAT)
Student membership: £40 pcm (inc VAT).
Groups and organisations: Bespoke pricing available.

To join please provide evidence of:

  • membership of a professional therapy organisation (e.g. BACP, UKCP, NCPS, COSRT, BABCP etc)
  • qualified status (or, for trainees, enrolment on a Level 4 course)

Feedback from our members

“What you have created here is so precious and possibly the most helpful and beneficial resource I have ever been involved in. As my work specifically is trauma-based, I have no desire to keep buying or attending other CPD ‘trainings’ as I am gaining so much from being a part of this community. I honestly love it! And I love the safety it is bringing, to enable me to be me more. THANK YOU – it’s just excellent.”

“I really appreciate this community. It can feel very isolating as a therapist and at times it’s too easy to over-identify with your shame gremlins. Carolyn makes me feel seen and very valued professionally. Hearing from other therapists about their own shame gremlins and how they work with them has been incredibly inspiring and hopeful.”

“The felt experience of being with Carolyn and the group supports my nervous system’s learning capacity. All of the live or recorded content is delivered with such consideration, realness and congruence, really supporting the members through a lens of ‘Unshame’. This safety and honesty is something I have not experienced in other training forums.”

The principal training session by Carolyn takes place most Fridays from 2-3.30pm, and occasionally at other times. It usually last for 90 minutes but you can arrive and leave whenever you need or want to. We encourage participation but if you’d rather just observe, even with your camera off, that’s absolutely fine. Everyone is welcome and we endeavour to maintain a safe, respectful environment at all times.

Recent topics covered:

  • Managing holidays and breaks from an attachment perspective
  • What do flashbacks look like in the therapy room?
  • Working with lies and deception
  • Avoiding secondary trauma
  • Assessments, boundaries and contracting
  • Terminal ambivalence
  • The subtle signs of trauma
  • Dissociation in the therapy room
  • Ritual and organised abuse
  • Therapist self-care: avoiding burnout
  • Dysregulation in the therapy room
  • When therapy sessions become stuck
  • Managing the therapeutic frame in trauma work
  • Ending sessions on time

Join our Community

Membership is via application during which we check your eligibility. If approved, we will then send you a joining link which is valid for 7 days. We’re seeking members who are keen to learn, and want where possible to be actively engaged.

The Community is hosted by ‘Mighty Networks’ on a separate platform to the main www.carolynspring.com website. You will need to register a new account on the new site (your credentials from the www.carolynspring.com will not work). We provide full instructions and are on hand to guide you through the process should you encounter any difficulties.

Your monthly membership runs from the date of joining for a full calendar month, and you can cancel at any point before the renewal date – there is no long-term commitment.

Any questions?

Please get in touch if you have any questions at all about the Community! We’ll get back to you ASAP.