Trauma Recovery Community | Carolyn Spring

What is the Trauma Recovery Community?

Run by Carolyn Spring, the TRC is a monthly 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 Trauma Recovery Community?

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 the TRC is all about. It provides essential support and live, interactive training where I help you work through the unique challenges of working with complex trauma.

Flexibility

attend live Zoom sessions at different times of day and on different days of the week depending on your availability
watch recordings of live sessions at your convenience
watch clips, read articles, and interact in discussion groups even if you only have 5 minutes to spare
interact as much or as little as you want to
access everything in one place via a website and app, available 24/7

Benefits

1-2 live interactive training sessions with Carolyn each week (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)
group discussions and peer networking and support
downloadable and printable resources to use with your clients
new client referrals
support when you need it

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)

Click here to apply

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 of the Community through a lens of ‘Unshame’. This safety and honesty is something I have not experienced in other training forums.”

What are the live sessions like?

We have three types of live session:

general Q&As where you can bring or send in your question on anything related to working with complex trauma;
‘implementation sessions’ where we cover a specific topic (often suggested by a member), discuss it in breakout groups with other attendees, and then seek to apply our learning and insights to what actually goes on in the therapy room
and ‘Unshame’ book club/training sessions where we read one chapter a month from Carolyn’s book, as a platform for discussion, learning and self-reflection.

The sessions usually last for 60-90 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.

Join our Community

Membership is via application during which we check your eligibility. We aim to process all applications within 2 working days. Once approved, you will receive an invitation link to join which will be valid for 14 days.

The TRC 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.

Click here to apply

Any questions?

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

(But please don’t use this form to actually apply – instead use the ‘Click here to apply’ button, which will take you to a form to fill in with the info we need. Thank you!)

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Unfortunately we cannot recommend individual therapists. However, there are a number of good directories where you can search for therapists in your area, specifying that you are looking for someone to help with trauma, sexual abuse, dissociation etc.

The two most helpful directories are:
www.counselling-directory.org.uk
www.bacp.co.uk/search/Therapists

You may also find this article helpful: 'How to find a therapist for a dissociative disorder'.

Other useful resources are available here: Getting help

Unfortunately, Carolyn does not offer supervision herself and is not able to recommend individual supervisors.

Carolyn very occasionally offers 1-1 consultations, principally for professionals to discuss specific complex case issues, but at this time she has no further capacity to take on new consultation work. Should this change in the future it will be announced on our website and to our mailing list which you can join here.

Carolyn receives many thousands of messages every year and regretfully it is not possible for her to respond to each one individually, but please know that they are appreciated.

This website offers a lot of useful information via our blog, podcasts and training. If you are looking for one-to-one help from a therapist, these directories are a good starting point:
www.counselling-directory.org.uk
www.bacp.co.uk/search/Therapists

Other useful resources are available here: Getting help

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We offer trauma training across a range of topics including child sexual abuse, dissociation and dissociative identity disorder (DID), suicide and self-harm, attachment and trauma.

Delegates from a wide range of backgrounds and sectors purchase our training, including:

counsellors
psychotherapists
psychologists
rape crisis or helpline staff and volunteers
CPNs / healthcare staff
police, prison and probation staff
social care staff
education staff
survivors
supporters
anyone working with people who have suffered trauma in childhood

If you are a survivor, you may find aspects of our training challenging or triggering, but most people can manage this well with planning.

Carolyn’s training has been successfully accepted as CPD for BACP and UKCP’s purposes for a number of years. Over 17,000 people have attended her live training and there are currently over 27,000 people (mostly therapists) currently enrolled on her online courses. We are not aware of the CPD certificate issued upon completion ever not being accepted for CPD purposes by any of the main organisations.

Carolyn is a survivor of trauma and although she has completed extensive therapy training, she does not work as a therapist as she has identified that she can help a greater number of people as a writer and educator. She believes firmly in the fact that there are two people in the therapy room – the therapist and the client – and that therapy training should hear from both.

Alongside her personal experience, she grounds everything she says with reference to her reading and research in the field, so that the theory and the clinical literature can be brought alive by her experience, with a unique combination of the two informing each other.

Carolyn does not offer live in-house training. However, we are able to offer all of our online courses and webinars at a group booking discount for groups of 5+.

Please visit our group training page for more information.

Whilst Carolyn’s main focus at the moment is on writing, she does occasionally accept invitations to speak at conferences, symposiums etc. If you would like to discuss this further, please contact us at requests@carolynspring.com.

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