ECPT Working with Trauma: Foundations, Complexity and Practice

?day Evenings for 6 Weeks from TBC

Working with Trauma: Foundations, Complexity and Practice

CPD Certificate, 18 hours

Tuesday Evenings, 6pm to 9pm, for 6 Weeks from TBC. Live Online.

£375 [plus VAT], payable at booking. 

Join us for an 18-hour online CPD course for practitioners who work therapeutically with adults. The course is led by Dr Lynsey Holmes, Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Lead of the Humber Traumatic Stress Service. You will learn to recognise, formulate and work safely with trauma across a phase-informed model of care, and to identify when a case needs specialist referral.

Who the course is for

Practitioners with a current or recent adult caseload, including:

• practitioner psychologists;
• trainee psychologists in the final two years of doctoral training;
• counsellors and psychotherapists registered with UKCP, BACP, NCPS or an equivalent body;
• CBT therapists and psychological wellbeing practitioners;
• mental health nurses and allied professionals in therapy roles;
• ECPT trainees at Level 5 and above.

The course is pitched at an intermediate level. No previous specialist trauma training is needed.

Entry requirements

To book, you must:

• hold a relevant professional qualification, or be enrolled on a doctoral psychology programme or an ECPT programme at Level 5 or above;
• have current, or recent, therapeutic work with adults;
• have access to regular clinical supervision;
• be registered with, or a member of, a relevant professional body, or be a trainee on such a programme;
• have a computer with a camera, microphone and a stable internet connection.

We check registration numbers before confirming your place.

Working with Trauma Course Schedule

By the end of the course you will be able to:

• classify trauma presentations, and tell PTSD from complex PTSD using ICD-11 and DSM-5-TR;
• give clients an accurate, non-pathologising explanation of trauma and memory;
• carry out a phase-informed assessment and stabilisation plan, and judge readiness for processing;
• appraise the NICE-recommended processing therapies, and decide when to refer;
• formulate relational, attachment and dissociative processes in complex cases;
• adapt your practice for refugees, veterans, moral injury and interpreter-mediated work;
• build a supervision and self-care plan for your own trauma caseload.

Please note: this course does not qualify you to practise TF-CBT, CPT, Prolonged Exposure or EMDR. Each of these requires separately accredited training.

Assessment will take place throughout the training. However, the following need to be submitted to gain certification:

• Weekly online knowledge checks (formative)
• A weekly reflective log (formative, not submitted)
• A 1,500-word written case formulation, or a 15-minute recorded presentation, based on a fictional case. Due TBC 2027.

Certificate of Completion: attend at least 15 of the 18 hours and pass the case formulation. Delegates who attend without passing receive a Certificate of Attendance.

Taking part safely

The course involves discussion of traumatic material, including sexual violence, torture and combat. You will receive a content note before each session. You can keep your camera off or step out at any time. You will never be asked to share your own history. A second facilitator attends every session to offer support. Captions and accessible materials are standard, and you can request reasonable adjustments when you book.

By buying your ticket via Ticket Tailor, you are committing to paying the full course fee of £375 (+ VAT), and you agree to ECPT’s Booking and Cancellation Policy. To confirm: CPD cancellation terms, including your right to cancel within 14 days of booking online.

If ECPT cancels the course, you will receive a full refund or a transfer to a later date within 12 months.

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