Healing from dissociation comes through getting back in touch with our bodies and a key way to do that is to be able to focus attention on our bodies and put into words the sensations we can feel. This poster gives a helping hand by offering a choice of words as a starting-point.

Being suicidal is not a choice, or just an extreme form of depression or despair. Instead researchers suggest that there is a specific brain state that we enter – which they have dubbed ‘the suicidal mode’ – in which key parts of our logical, thinking front brain shut down. This psychoeducational poster summarises some of these impairments and comes from my online course ‘Dealing with Distress: Working with Suicide and Self-Harm’ which explains it in much more detail.

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.