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Trauma Recovery Community (Join Page for Students)

Helping you to help your clients recover from trauma

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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.

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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)

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.

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
  • Who sets the agenda for the therapy session?
  • Maladaptive daydreaming
  • Dissociation in the therapy room
  • Working with grounding
  • 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

When are the next live sessions?

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.

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!)