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Join us for a full day of immersive learning, reflection, and community at the Trauma & Attachment in Practice: Embodied Healing Conference 2026.
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM Welcome & Introductions
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM Whole Group - Creating a community container
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Morning Break
Workshop Session 1
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
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12:30 PM – 1:30 PM Lunch Break
Workshop Session 2
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
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3:00 PM – 3:30 PM Afternoon Break
Workshop Session 3
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
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5:00 PM – 5:30 PM Q&A and reflections
5:30 PM – Close Closing Remarks
Trauma & Attachment
Exploring Embodiment, Connection, & Healing
Beginning Session
Settle, Ground & Connect
An Attachment-Centred Opening
Closing Session
Kate will facilitate the 30 minute conference ending with a Q&A and reflections on endings with our trauma and attachment clients. You'll have the opportunity to appreciate the hero's journey that your clients are on.
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Kate Williams - Parts After Harm: Applying IFS & Structural Dissociation to Understand Attachment Patterns After Sexual Abuse
Preeti Bath - Tracing the Threads: A Clinical Guide to Transgenerational Trauma
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Mike Carrington - Minority Stress & Attachment: Clinical Perspectives for Safer Practice
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11am - Emma Dowrick From Limbic Cues to Secure Bonds: The Origins of Body Language in Attachment
11.45am - Dr. Sunni Patel - From Noise to Nervous System: HRV‑Informed Sound Practices for Regulation
11am - Charlotte Carroll - Always Online, Rarely Together: How Technology Shapes Family Ties
11.45am - Alison Emmerson & Phiona HuttonBreathwork for Nervous System Support
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Kelly Lane - Toward Safety & Agency: Clinical Tools for Trauma Bonds & Codependency
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Preeti Bath & Anita Duke - From Harm to Holding: Anti‑Racist, Attachment‑Informed Therapy in Practice
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Fiona Breaker-Rolfe & Ros O'Hanlon - Felt‑Sense Boundaries: Somatic Skills for Clients with Attachment Wounds
1.30pm - Honorata Chorazy-Przybysz - From Numb to Noticing: Art‑Based Steps out of Dorsal Vagal States
2.15pm - Kate Williams - From Survival Patterns to Choice: Bottom Up Skills to Shift Stuck Habits
1.30pm - Peter Hayward - Beyond Stoicism: Helping Men Name, Feel and Heal After Loss & Trauma
2.15pm - Claire Humphries - Move at the Speed of Trust: Somatic Practices to Build Safety & Choice
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Charlotte Carroll - Repair in Relationship: Attachment, Presence & Practice with Young People
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Honorata Chorazy-Przybysz - From Polyvagal Theory to Play: Art Based Tools for Soothing & Regulation
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Ali Oliver - Vicarious Trauma in Supervision: Recognising Risk & Building Protection
3.30pm - Anita Duke - Widen the Window: Using Pendulation & Titration to Prevent Overwhelm
4.15pm - Preeti Bath - Humming, Breath and Ground: Building a Somatic Toolkit via the Vagus Nerve
3.30pm - Fiona Breaker-Rolfe - Clean Language for Trauma: How Metaphor Transforms the Inner World
4.15pm - Ros O'Hanlon - From Self Critic to Self Compassion: Practical Tools to Interrupt Shame Loops
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Workshops Session 1 Facilitators
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Through the lens of Internal Family Systems Therapy Kate will explore with you how a person’s internal parts can configure after sexual abuse to help them navigate a threatening world.
Clients of sexual abuse often carry a lot of shame and self-loathing, not only towards their inner ‘victim’ but they hate how their ongoing relational behaviour reduces joy, connection and intimacy. After such a boundary violation protective parts emerge carry highly sophisticated and strategic ways of being to, for example, keep a client alert through hypervigilant, safe through avoidance, or vulnerable and small through intrusive thoughts.
In this workshop you’ll develop knowledge and understanding to:
Help your clients identify the parts at play that protect them
Discover the vulnerability they are protecting Creative methods to explore protectors and the exiled wounded child / part Skills for developing self-compassion to promote choice within current day relationships.
I founded BCTS in 2013 in order to bring quality counselling training to central Bedfordshire. I’m a BACP & EMDR Europe Accredited counsello EMDR therapist and clinical supervisor with a background in yoga and bodywork.
Previously, I have worked as a counselling tutor for Huntingdon Regional College and a bodywork tutor for the University of Westminster as well as working as a college counsellor for 11 years. I currently work within the NHS IAPT programme as well as running a busy private practice in Potton and online whilst enjoying teaching yoga and breathwork in my spare time.
I’m interested in the impact trauma can have on the nervous system, mind and body and have undergone extensive training in trauma including sensorimotor psychotherapy, EMDR and various parts work models including Somatic IFS and Voice Dialogue. With this in mind, and my training as a breathwork coach, I have developed a robust trauma-informed & embodied way of working to support others to better inhabit their bodies, self soothe and regulate their feelings and in doing so feel more connected and alive again.
Kate tutors on CPCAB L4 Dip. In Therapeutic Counselling, CPCAB L5 Dip. Somatic Trauma Therapy, CPCAB L6 Dip Attachment, Parts and Inner Child Work and CPCAB L3 Award in Breathwork Coaching.
Tracing the Threads
This 90-minute workshop offers a clinically grounded and culturally sensitive exploration of transgenerational trauma. Designed for therapists, the session will explore how inherited emotional patterns, family roles, and unspoken narratives shape nervous system regulation and relational dynamics across generations.
Combining theory, reflective practice, and experiential elements, participants will be invited to deepen their understanding of legacy trauma — with an emphasis on practitioner self-awareness, embodied insight, and the importance of cultural context. The workshop also considers how therapists can hold space for inherited pain while supporting healing, agency, and systemic transformation in client work.
I am a qualified therapist, breath coach and life coach with experience working in private practice, delivering workshops & training in corporate settings. My mission is to use my skills and experience to help people become more emotionally intelligent. I am a CPCAB approved tutor and have developed and presented workshops to psychoeducate teachers, children, and corporations on topics such as anxiety, resilience, confidence & self esteem. I enjoy writing on issues to do with mental health & wellbeing.
Preeti is a tutor on the CPCAB Level 3 Award in Breathwork Coaching and sub-contracts for BCTS running her L6 Award in Transgenerational Trauma and L5 Award in Neurodivergence and Trauma.
Minority Stress & Attachment
In this experiential and reflective workshop, we will explore the intersection between attachment theory and minority stress, drawing on contemporary research and clinical practice. We will examine how discrimination, stigma, hypervigilance, and internalised oppression can shape attachment patterns for LGBTQIA+ individuals — often in ways that are misunderstood or overlooked in therapeutic work.
Together, we will explore:
How experiences of minority stress influence adult attachment styles
The relational patterns and protective strategies that may emerge in therapy
Ways counsellors can create greater safety, attunement, and connection with marginalised clients
Reflective exercises to support awareness of our own assumptions, positionality, and relational impact
This workshop blends theory and research with lived experience, discussion, and embodied learning. Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of how minority stress can shape relational patterns, along with practical therapeutic approaches to help clients cultivate more secure and empowered connections both within and beyond the therapy room.
I tutor on Level 2, 3, and 4 counselling training courses, and facilitate workshops exploring themes such as minority stress theory, sexuality, gender, and psychodynamic theory. I’m passionate about supporting trainee and qualified counsellors in developing both their theoretical understanding and relational skills.
Alongside my teaching work, I am an integrative, LGBTQIA+ affirmative counsellor in private practice, working with individual adult clients My approach combines personcentred, psychodynamic, existential, and CBT theories, adapted to meet the unique needs of each client.
I have previous experience in low-cost counselling services and am committed to offering a warm, affirming space to all clients I have a particular interest in attachment theory and how early relational experiences can shape the ways we think, feel, and connect with others in our adult lives.
From Limbic Cues to Secure Bonds
In this workshop, participants will explore the origins of body language and the links between non verbal communication and the limbic system, and how these shape human behaviour The session considers the role of non verbal communication in reparative processes and secure attachment.
Learning Objectives
• Understand how attachment behaviours evolved in humans and the limbic system
• Spot the key signs of attachment in body language, from eye contact to gestures.
• Recognise how infants use body language to connect with caregivers before they can speak.
• See how early attachment patterns show up later in adult relationships through posture, touch, and facial expressions and how trauma can impact this.
• Practice interpreting body language through interactive activities and real life examples
Emma Dowrick is an integrative counsellor and Registered Member of the BACP Emma volunteers at Bedfordshire Open Door supporting 13–25 year olds, and runs a private practice working with trauma, grief and bereavement in a trauma‑informed, attuned way to support regulation and reconnection. With over 25 years in education and since 2022 tutoring on CPCAB Level 2 and 3 Counselling courses, Emma has a keen interest in somatic work and non‑verbal communication (NVC) including body language in unconscious communication.
Emma supports counselling students to develop NVC awareness to enhance self awareness and client connection.
From Noise to Nervous System
Discover how immersive sound‑bath experiences can offer a gentle, embodied pathway to relational regulation and trauma informed care.
This session explores the emerging science — HRV and EEG markers of relaxation, mood and attachment benefits — and how to integrate sound interventions into trauma‑sensitive therapeutic frameworks.
Expect a blend of evidence based theory, live sound demonstration, guided reflection, and somatic relational exercises.
Dr. Sunni Patel is a registered lifestyle medicine practitioner (BSLM accredited) with a PhD in cardiometabolic risk, and training in fitness, nutrition, and eating addiction. Running a virtual clinic focused on personalised health coaching, Sunni also practises as a CPCAB L3 breathwork coach and sound therapy practitioner, facilitating group spaces and retreats that integrate breath and meditation.
Sunni has featured on ITV News, Ready Steady Cook, and CBBC Newsround, and regularly contributes to BBC radio and national press. Sunni tutors on the CPCAB Level 3 Breathwork Coach training.
Always Online, Rarely Together
Looking through the lens of Bowlby’s attachment theory and Winnicott’s good enough parents Charlotte will explore the impact electronics/social media can have on the bond between parents and baby.
The complications that arise from an insufficient bond for both parent and young person is stark as the relational ‘blue print’ developed in the child goes on to impact this very relationship and future relationships.
Charlotte will initiate various discussions around the Good Enough parent, the creation of the false self and impact on the internal working model of the child.
I am a qualified integrative counsellor and supervisor working in a busy private practice in Stevenage I see clients as young as 12 years old up to older adults I am the organiser of a successful peer group which has been running since 2018. I am a Registered Member of the BACP but eligible for accreditation. The Person-Centred approach is the core and foundation of how I work, I then pull on strings from other modalities such as Psychodynamic, Existential and Gestalt.
I enjoy working creatively in sessions where appropriate using sand trays, art, music and find this is a great way of expressing feelings and telling your story when it is too hard or scary to do so with words or perhaps the words aren’t enough. I have previously coordinated a counselling department in a college, supporting trainee counsellors on placement and offering counselling to college students with more complex needs
Charlotte tutors on the CPCAB L2 and L3 Certs. In Counselling Skills and Theory and is the centre administrator.
Alison Emmerson & Phiona Hutton
In this restorative workshop you’ll get to experience various breath practices for nervous system restoration and support. Being the only system of the autonomic nervous system that we can consciously control the practice of breathwork is widely known to change our internal state to bring in energy and calm.
Through regular breath practice you can widen your window of tolerance, improve your sleep, digestion and overall health.
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Alison is also a tutor on the Level 3 Breathwork Coach course at BCTS.
Alongside her colleague, Phiona, she delivers regular CPD sessions for counsellors and breathwork coaches, covering topics such as breathwork, trauma, neurodivergence, and professional practice. Together, they also offer both group and individual supervision for counsellors and breathwork coaches.
Workshops Session 2 Facilitators
Toward Safety & Agency
This 90 minute experiential workshop explores the complex dynamics of trauma bonding and co-dependency in the context of Domestic Abuse.
Through a trauma informed lens, participants will gain insight into how survival mechanisms, attachment patterns, and nervous system responses maintain cycles of dependency and emotional entrapment. Blending psychoeducation, reflective discussion and interactive exercises.
This session aims to deepen understanding of trauma bonds and equip practitioners with tools to support survivors in moving from survival to freedom.
With over 20 years of experience working in education and with children and young adults in the care system, I bring a grounded, trauma-informed approach to my work as a psychotherapist. For the past 7 years, I have supported individuals of all ages, with a particular focus on attachment, relationships, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), generational trauma, domestic abuse, and complex trauma.
I am a qualified clinical supervisor and a creative therapist, drawing on my background in dance, art, music, and writing to support self-expression and emotional healing. I integrate movement, creative arts, and somatic practices to help clients process trauma in a way that feels safe, embodied, and empowering.
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As a Reiki Master, I believe deeply in the mind-body connection, and that movement is key to healing. My practice is guided by the belief that the body holds the answers to your healing, and I create compassionate, nonjudgemental spaces where individuals can reconnect with themselves, transform pain into purpose, and move forward with clarity and confidence.
Kelly tutors on the CPCAB L5 Dip Somatic Trauma Therapy, the CPCAB L6 Dip Attachment, Parts and Inner Child Work and is a tutor for Preeti Bath’s Neurodivergent & Trauma, and Transgenerational Trauma Awards.
From Harm to Holding
Preeti Bath & Anita
Duke
Racial trauma is a form of complex trauma that can permeate throughout life, impacting identity, the capacity to form healthy relationships, and a person’s way of being in the world. Systemic injustices, discrimination, microaggressions, and historical oppression undermine the sense of safety and trust necessary for secure attachment. Disrupted relationships and intergenerational cycles of trauma can manifest as chronic stress, depression, anxiety, chronic fatigue and PTSD.
This 90 minute workshop holds a dedicated, supportive and respectful space to explore the impact of racial trauma from both therapeutic and lived‑experience perspectives. The session invites self‑reflection and awareness, and considers what it means to be anti racist in practice.
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Felt‑Sense Boundaries
Fiona Breaker-Rolfe & Ros O'Hanlon
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From Numb to Noticing
Honorata is an integrative creative counsellor (MBACP), expressive artist, clay therapist and therapeutic arts practitioner. Her practice blends the concept of Internal Parts, creative counselling and is grounded in principles of nervous system regulation. She is one of the contributors to Tanja’s Sharpe book “Creative Counselling” (2022), and “Creative Counselling for Adults” (2024). She worked for public health, adult education and mental health organisations running therapeutic arts groups and now in the private practice she is focusing on neurodivergent clients and less verbal creative ways of work.
Honorata provides training on creativity in therapy for the Creative Counsellors CIC, is a practitioner member of Association for Person Centred Creative Arts and Creative Counsellors Ambassador, as well as runs creative peer reflections group for counsellors. As a practicing artist along being a therapist, Honorata works with blocks to creativity rooted in the early childhood experiences, lost connection with the inner child and absence of creative play throughout the life.
In 2025 Honorata trained in Laban movement application with KFA to blend the creative expression through the body with drawing and emotional regulation Honorata is a tutor on the CPCAB L2 and L3 Counselling Skills & Theory courses and a tutor on the CPCAB L6 Diploma in Attachment, Parts and Inner Child work.
Honorata Chorazy-Przybysz
From Survival Patterns to Choice
Habits that are unhelpful, sabotaging and even dangerous are often part of a trauma survivor’s strategies for staying alive. Trauma can persist in the body with an “as if” quality—as if the threat is still present—driving procedural patterns reinforced by shame around perceived lack of willpower
This workshop offers techniques to help clients change their relationship with habits and move beyond them. Activating the parasympathetic nervous system is a powerful way to interrupt unhealthy patterns and restore balance. Working within the window of tolerance, participants will learn mindfulness and somatic skills to support a bottom‑up approach to change.
I founded BCTS in 2013 in order to bring quality counselling training to central Bedfordshire. I’m a BACP & EMDR Europe Accredited counsellor, EMDR therapist and clinical supervisor with a background in yoga and bodywork.
Previously, I have worked as a counselling tutor for Huntingdon Regional College and a bodywork tutor for the University of Westminster as well as working as a college counsellor for 11 years. I currently work within the NHS IAPT programme as well as running a busy private practice in Potton and online whilst enjoying teaching yoga and breathwork in my spare time
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I’m interested in the impact trauma can have on the nervous system, mind and body and have undergone extensive training in trauma including sensorimotor psychotherapy, EMDR and various parts work models including Somatic IFS and
Voice Dialogue With this in mind, and my training as a breathwork coach, I have developed a robust trauma-informed & embodied way of working to support others to better inhabit their bodies, self soothe and regulate their feelings and in doing so feel more connected and alive again.
Kate tutors on CPCAB L4 Dip In Therapeutic Counselling, CPCAB L5 Dip Somatic Trauma Therapy, CPCAB L6 Dip Attachment, Parts and Inner Child Work and CPCAB L3 Award in Breathwork Coaching.
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Beyond Stoicism
Trauma and bereavement can result in significant emotional and physical health challenges that are often unrecognised or overlooked in men. Due to societal and cultural expectations, men may find it difficult to express their emotions, frequently minimising or dismissing their own experiences of pain.
This session will outline my approach to this in private practice and highlight the support provided by the men’s bereavement charity ‘StrongMen’ for those facing these challenges.
I am a Gestalt and Somatic Trauma Therapist in private practice and the Operations Manager for the men’s bereavement charity ‘StrongMen’, where I manage the charity’s counselling service, and provides training and peer supervision to the charity’s volunteers
I am a Yoga Teacher who specialises in Yin Yoga and a Breathwork Coach. I’m an Oxygen Advantage Advanced Instructor and an Oxygen Advantage Breathing for Yoga Instructor.
In my spare time, my hobby is kettlebell sport, where I represent England World and European Championship level. Pete teaches on the CPCAB Level 3 Award in Breathwork Coaching.
Move at the Speed of Trust
A consent-based dance and movement journey to explore your edges, discover your yes and no and open into the freedom of your own dance before returning to stillness.
Claire Humphries is a trauma-aware coach and teacher weaving parts work, conscious dance, and somatic practices that support nervous system regulation and soul-deep reconnection.
She helps people experience the wisdom of their body and the deeper knowing of the self inviting healing, joy, and trust to gently return them to wholeness.
Claire supports the CPCAB L6 Dip in Attachment, Parts and Inner Child work and the CPCAB L3 Award in Breathwork Coaching
Workshops Session 3 Facilitators
Repair in Relationship
In this educational and experiential workshop, participants will explore how reparative the therapeutic relationship can be for young people. In a world where they are often told and not heard, therapists may be the first people to truly see and hear them.
The session draws on Bowlby’s attachment theory and Winnicott’s three stages, weaving in Erikson’s psychosocial stages and the influence of Nick Luxmoore.
I am a qualified integrative counsellor and supervisor working in a busy private practice in Stevenage. I see clients as young as 12 years old up to older adults. I am the organiser of a successful peer group which has been running since 2018. I am a Registered Member of the BACP but eligible for accreditation. The Person-Centred approach is the core and foundation of how I work, I then pull on strings from other modalities such as Psychodynamic, Existential and Gestalt.
I enjoy working creatively in sessions where appropriate using sand trays, art, music and find this is a great way of expressing feelings and telling your story when it is too hard or scary to do so with words or perhaps the words aren’t enough I have previously coordinated a counselling department in a college, supporting trainee counsellors on placement and offering counselling to college students with more complex needs.
Charlotte tutors on the CPCAB L2 and L3 Certs. In Counselling Skills and Theory and is the centre administrator
From Polyvagal Theory to Play
Based on a polyvagal approach to self soothing, this workshop provides simple yet effective ways to use the creative arts as tools for self‑regulation. While children learn self regulation through co regulation, this capacity can be disrupted by broken or insufficient secure attachment, leaving many adults with prolonged dysregulation and anxiety.
Creative arts techniques offer an alternative route to re‑learn regulation by shifting out of sympathetic activation using the senses, colour, line drawing and pattern repetition. Participants will need paper, coloured art materials, textured objects, and a small piece of clay for this theory‑plus‑practice session.
Honorata is an integrative creative counsellor (MBACP), expressive artist, clay therapist and therapeutic arts practitioner Her practice blends the concept of Internal Parts, creative counselling and is grounded in principles of nervous system regulation. She is one of the contributors to Tanja’s Sharpe book “Creative Counselling” (2022), and “Creative Counselling for Adults” (2024). She worked for public health, adult education and mental health organisations running therapeutic arts groups and now in the private practice she is focusing on neurodivergent clients and less verbal creative ways of work
Honorata provides training on creativity in therapy for the Creative Counsellors CIC, is a practitioner member of Association for Person Centred Creative Arts and Creative Counsellors Ambassador, as well as runs creative peer reflections group for counsellors.
Honorata Chorazy-Przybysz
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As a practicing artist along being a therapist, Honorata works with blocks to creativity rooted in the early childhood experiences, lost connection with the inner child and absence of creative play throughout the life
In 2025 Honorata trained in Laban movement application with KFA to blend the creative expression through the body with drawing and emotional regulation.
Honorata is a tutor on the CPCAB L2 and L3 Counselling Skills & Theory courses and a tutor on the CPCAB L6 Diploma in Attachment, Parts and Inner Child work.
Vicarious Trauma in Supervision
I currently tutor and facilitate on the Level 4 diploma and lead the Level 6 Supervision training I’m a Practice Partner at a thriving private agency in St Neots, co-managing the team of counsellors and placement students and providing counselling within an Integrative approach for Young People, Adults and Relationship clients. I’m a qualified supervisor working 1:1 and with groups, and really enjoy supporting counsellors to flourish. When time allows, I organise CPD events for counsellors, bringing high-quality learning opportunities via respected external speakers to local counsellors
As an English Literature graduate and a life-long bookworm, I love how stories, myths, archetypes and symbolism are an amazing vehicle for meaning-making. They help us to connect with patterns of behaviour and life, develop empathy, appreciate diverse frames of reference and can inspire, challenge and affirm.
Prior to my counselling career, one of my roles was head of learning & development for a corporate organisation and I continue to find the creative process of designing courses hugely satisfying I’m an enthusiastic advocate of life-long learning and engaging in my own personal & professional development absolutely helps me to thrive. am an accredited member of the BACP.
Widen the Window
Pendulation and titration skills are key for safe trauma practice. In this workshop, Anita will define these skills within somatic trauma work and show how to apply them in sessions to enhance safety within a three phase trauma treatment model.
Pendulation supports the nervous system’s natural rhythm between activation and deactivation, helping clients self‑regulate and widen their window of tolerance. Titration introduces manageable doses of activation (or deactivation) to avoid overwhelm. Attendees will leave with greater confidence in bringing these skills into practice.
Anita Duke is a BACP accredited integrative counsellor, trauma therapist and breathwork coach dedicated to championing wellbeing, emotional resilience and self-compassion within a successful private practice. Anita’s core modality is somatic humanisticintegrative to support connection to the natural healing resources of the mind, body and breath. She also draws from creative, parts work, psychodynamic and CBT approaches, and is a qualified practitioner in EMDR, clinical hypnotherapy, NLP and TFT.
Anita has previously worked within NHS IAPT counselling services and Anxiety UK. She continues to support other mental wellbeing services through her practice connections with an East Anglian charity. Anita has extensive experience in both state education and corporate sales and marketing.
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Humming, Breath and Ground
Join Preeti for a deeply embodied 45‑minute exploration of the vagus nerve — a vital gateway to healing and regulation. Through a gentle blend of psychoeducation and guided somatic practice, this experiential session supports participants to connect with their nervous system in new and empowering ways.
Participants will be introduced to the role of the vagus nerve in trauma, safety and emotional wellbeing, and invited to feel their way into regulation via practices such as orienting, breathwork, humming, body tapping and grounding movements. Ideal for therapists, coaches and healing practitioners seeking to build their own somatic toolkit and experience first hand the shifts that arise when we soften into safety. No prior experience required.
I am a qualified therapist, breath coach and life coach with experience working in private practice, delivering workshops & training in corporate settings. My mission is to use my skills and experience to help people become more emotionally intelligent I am a CPCAB approved tutor and has developed and presented workshops to psychoeducate teachers, children, and corporations on topics such as anxiety, resilience, confidence & self esteem. I enjoy writing on issues to do with mental health & wellbeing.
Preeti is a tutor on the CPCAB Level 3 Award in Breathwork Coaching and sub-contracts for BCTS running her L6 Award in Transgenerational Trauma and L5 Award in Neurodivergence and Trauma.
Clean Language for Trauma
Due to traumatic experiences being intense, complex and often difficult to describe, or too overwhelming to describe using literal language, metaphor can be a safer language to use, often expressing the core of the experience in a way that words can’t.
With her experience as an NLP practitioner and clinical trauma therapist Fiona will explore with the group how working with metaphor can transform a person’s experience within their inner world. In this 45 minute workshop Fiona will provide a demonstration using clean language to bring a resolution through the use of metaphor.
I am an Integrative Counsellor with a background in health and social care, bringing together experience in the NHS, Social Services and the Voluntary Sector. I have been tutoring CPCAB qualifications in further education and with BCTS for since 2019, most recently delivering TCL4 and L5 Somatic Trauma Therapy.
I am a qualified Therapist, a Clinical Trauma Professional, a Supervisor and NLP Practitioner, with a thriving private practice in North Hertfordshire. Fiona teaches on the CPCAB Level 5 Dip Somatic Trauma Therapy training
From Self‑Critic to Self‑Compassion
Shame is often woven into the very fabric of a person’s identity when they have experienced ongoing and unspoken trauma. Shame keeps a trauma survivor silent, deepening the secret of the trauma yet living out its impact. Within shame reside the self-attacking beliefs that perpetuate shame disconnect a survivor from others, the world and, most heartbreakingly, from themselves.
Shame and it’s self-attacking beliefs shapes a person’s way of being in the world, the way they cope and relate to others. This can lead to burnout, addiction, trauma bonding and much more. In this workshop Ros will guide you through experiential exercises to break the cycle and transform shame into self-compassion.
I trained as an Integrative Counsellor and psychotherapist, encompassing person centred as my core approach, linking to psychodynamic, CBT as well as Gestalt play therapy, involving work with sand tray, drawings, paintings and clay. Through my therapeutic work and tutoring I have honed my skills in somatic practice, developing a keen understanding of the mind-body link and incorporating meditation, breathwork and yin yoga into all my practices, developing my work in a trauma-informed therapy.
Over the past 20 years I have worked as a Lecturer, trainer, facilitator, coach and counsellor for Barnfield College, Relate, Spurgeons, MIND, Bedford College, The University of Bedfordshire and Northampton and Broxbourne School, where I am lead school counsellor and supervisor for a small counselling team. My work in this area has fuelled my interest and experience of working with C&YP. I also run a small private practice where I work with individuals, families and couples and also offer private supervision.
Ros teaches on the CPCAB Level 5 Dip. Somatic Trauma Therapy training, CPCAB Level 6 Dip. Creative and Expressive Arts with C&YP and the L5 Award in Couples Counselling.
