Working Relationally with Trauma

Service Description

Cognitive Analytic Therapies’ (CAT) unique integration of theories allows for a multi-dimensional and dynamic conceptualisation of human experience and mental health. This module focus’ on how and why disruptive developmental and traumatic experiences can influence relational patterns. When we are more attuned to the co-constructed nature of relational experiences, we can work with greater relational accountability and complexity. This module will explore frameworks and techniques for connection and awareness amidst “landmines” in practice relationships and contexts. It will teach containing ways to share awareness of our own, and others contexts and influences in the helping process. Resourcing ourselves and the people we work with to have empathic conversations about experiences, hope and fears, leads to more trauma-informed, authentic and connecting working alliances. This builds engagement and scaffolds pathways for relationally reparative and trauma specific interventions.