Carolyn is not currently available for in-person training. However, by negotiation she may be available for group Zoom sessions as a follow-up to a team or group completing a series of training. Please ask about cost and availability when booking group training.
We offer discounted pricing for organisations wishing to purchase our training for 3 or more people. Please visit our group training page for more information.
Our pricing strategy is based on trying to offer the best training at a price that is accessible to all. Unfortunately, we therefore cannot offer any further discounts on the published pricing. We do however run frequent promotions, so please make sure you sign up to receive our emails and then you will know about the discounts when they happen (they normally only last a week.)
We also offer discounted pricing for organisations wishing to purchase our training for 3 or more people. Please visit our group training page for more information.
Carolyn has completed extensive therapy training, but does not work as a therapist. Instead she believes she can help people best through her writing and training. There are two people in the therapy room – the therapist and the client – and she believes that all trauma therapy training should incorporate the perspective of both.
It is particularly important that trauma survivors who have been rendered powerless and voiceless are heard and seen rather than having treatment approaches imposed upon them. Carolyn’s contribution is therefore to combine the latest clinical theory and neuroscience research with the personal narrative and perspective of trauma survivors and clients.
There is no time limit on completing our courses and our lifetime access promise means that you may return to your purchased training at any time in the future. Should we ever remove the courses from our website, we will give you plenty of warning and you will be able to download all the materials to keep on your device – which you can also do at any time.
How long it takes to complete any one of Carolyn’s courses depends on how diligently you address the material – you can whizz through it with the playback speed of the videos ramped up to 1.5x or 2x, or you can take your time, reflect on the material thoroughly, take notes, and do all the additional reading as well. Click here for a document detailing how long the presentation videos are, which serves as a minimum guide to the time required. And please note that you can stop and start the videos as often as you like, and each section generally lasts only around 20 minutes, so it’s easy to work in small chunks for maximum concentration.
Although Carolyn’s training is principally aimed at counsellors and psychotherapists, and written with them in mind, it is also perfectly accessible to and suitable for survivors – after all, Carolyn is a survivor herself. Some of the discussion focuses on the specifics of psychotherapy rather than being aimed primarily at a survivor audience, but the overall content is extremely helpful for survivors and perfectly understandable by them. Carolyn’s approach is to make the complex simple and to ensure that the voice and perspective of a survivor is front and centre for those working with trauma. She speaks in a very human, compassionate way, rather than in a clinical/academic way, and feels very strongly that trauma survivors need to be equipped with the psychoeducation to pursue and take charge of their own recovery. Her training therefore does just that.
The courses most suitable for survivors, which could be used as a starting point, are ‘Dissociation and DID: The Fundamentals’, ‘Trauma and the Body’ and ‘Mental Health and the Body: Treating Trauma’.
An alternative option, which also gives an insight into Carolyn’s style and approach, is to read her blogs and listen to her podcast. If these are helpful, then a good next step would the online training.
Survivors should of course take care when engaging with content as it could be triggering.
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 40,000 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.
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:
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 aims to make the complex simple and accessible, so if you are interested in a topic, please just dive in regardless of your background.
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