The key to trauma healing is safety, and in the therapeutic setting it is absolutely essential that the therapist is aware of how to communicate safety by how they are in the room with their client – not just through what they say. This poster, taken from Webinar #2: 'Working with trauma that has become stuck', provides a checklist of things to consider in how to help clients' develop accurate neuroception (the sense of feeling safe in our body).

Trauma operates via our primitive 'back brain' and switches off our thinking, choosing 'front brain'. This poster, taken from 'Webinar #2: 'Working with trauma that has become stuck', shows some of the key differences between the front brain and back brain and especially as it relates to stuckness after trauma.

During the pandemic we lived through a time of collective trauma, which activated fresh trauma as well as reactivating latent trauma for so many survivors. This psychoeducational poster was developed as part of our webinar ‘Working with trauma in a time of trauma’ and provides a summary of the trauma dynamics inherent in the recent pandemic, and how to avoid traumatisation.

Is the way we behave in our relationships a matter purely of choice, of character, or could it actually be largely influenced by our early life experiences, and especially of trauma? That's what this poster explores. It looks at the three zones of the 'Trauma Traffic Light' and how they manifest in our behaviours in our unconscious attempts to stay safe relationally.

Dealing with difficult emotions, and even being in crisis, is par for the course for many survivors after trauma. This 'Emergency Box' poster is a starting point for discussion and planning – when I hit crisis, what things might be helpful to me? What could I reach for, like a physical first aid kit, to stem the bleeding? What are the emotional equivalents of bandages and slings?

In child sexual abuse, the blame and shame are dumped onto the victim by the perpetrator. In recovery, as survivors we need to find a way of reversing that process – and dumping back what doesn't belong to us. 'The Great Exchange' is how I've conceptualised what goes on with that transfer, and this poster, taken from my 'Child Sexual Abuse: Hope for Healing' online course details it in simple terms.