Level 5 Diploma in Trauma-Informed Counselling – a CPCAB -Approved Tailor-Made Qualification

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Ready to deepen your understanding of trauma and therapeutic practice?

Develop your understanding of trauma, deepen your therapeutic skills and build greater confidence in working safely and effectively with clients affected by traumatic experiences.

This advanced counselling qualification is designed for practitioners who want to develop a deeper understanding of trauma and its impact on the mind, body, relationships and therapeutic process.

The course provides an opportunity to deepen your existing counselling practice through trauma-informed learning, reflection and practical application, helping you develop greater confidence when working therapeutically with clients affected by trauma.

Develop your trauma-informed practice

Understanding trauma involves more than understanding what has happened to a person. It also means exploring how traumatic experiences can affect the brain and nervous system, relationships, attachment, emotional regulation and the way a person experiences themselves and others.

Throughout the course, you will be encouraged to bring together theory, therapeutic skills and reflective practice, developing a more informed and sensitive approach to working with trauma.

What will I explore

The course explores key areas of trauma-informed counselling, including:

  • Trauma, the brain and nervous system
  • Attachment and developmental trauma
  • Dissociation and protective responses
  • Somatic awareness and working with the body
  • Regulation and stabilisation
  • Trauma-informed therapeutic relationships
  • Clinical application, reflection and integration

Is this course right for me?

This Level 5 Diploma is designed for counselling practitioners who want to deepen their understanding of trauma and develop their therapeutic practice.

It may be particularly suitable if you want to:

  • develop greater confidence when working with trauma:
  • understand the impact on the mind and body
  • deepen your understanding of attachment and developmental trauma
  • explore dissociation, regulation and stabilisation
  • bring greater trauma awareness into the therapeutic relationship and
  • integrate trauma-informed thinking into your existing counselling practice

Learn, reflect and develop your practice

The course combines advanced learning with opportunities for reflection and practical application

A key part of the course is dedicated group supervision, providing space to reflect on your clinical work and consider how your developing trauma-informed knowledge can be integrated safely and ethically into your counselling practice.

The course also includes two face to face training sessions, providing additional opportunities for experiential learning and skills development.

Course at a Glance

Qualification: Level 5 Diploma in Trauma-Informed Counselling
Award: CPCAB approved tailor made qualification
Start date: Saturday 2 January 2027
End date: Saturday 10 July 2027
Course day: Saturdays
Course time: 10.00am – 3.30pm
Delivery: Online, with two face to face training sessions included
Group supervision: Dedicated group supervision included

Working with trauma with greater confidence

Trauma can present in many different ways within the counselling room. Developing a deeper understanding of trauma can help practitioners recognise and respond to clients experiences with greater awareness, sensitivity and confidence.

This course provides an opportunity to develop your knowledge while also reflecting on how that knowledge informs the therapeutic relationship and your work with clients.

The emphasis is not simply on learning about trauma, but on developing and integrating trauma-informed therapeutic practice.

Important information

This is an advanced Level 5 CPCAB approved tailor made qualification designed for counselling practitioners wishing to develop their knowledge and practice in trauma informed counselling.

The course includes dedicated group supervision and two face to face training sessions.

Applicants will need to meet the course entry requirements before enrolment.

Deepen your practice. Understand trauma. Work with greater confidence.

If you are ready to develop a deeper understanding of trauma and bring trauma informed thinking into your counselling practice, we would be happy to discuss whether this course is right for you.

Interested in joining us?

Call Synergie on 01895 254 660 and we will be happy to guide you through the enrolment process

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