Healing Trauma - FOT approach 

16th, 17th and 23rd of August 2025 (three-day workshop)

A transformative approach that simultaneously works with body, mind, and emotion

This advanced-level Focusing-Oriented Therapy (FOT) workshop offers a powerful, holistic approach to trauma healing. By working flexibly and creatively with the body’s intelligence and felt sense, the FOT process engages all aspects of trauma—somatic memory and sensations, thoughts and core beliefs, and deep-seated emotions.

Trauma has multiple levels, and that to heal, we must work with all of them - individual, ancestral, and collective. Our work and our opportunity is to navigate these levels and use our new understanding of trauma as a way to grow and expand, both in our personal lives and in support of our family, friends, community, and humanity.

Through a blend of practical techniques, real-world case studies, and guided experiential learning, this workshop will equip you with the skills to:

• Identify different types of trauma and their unique impacts.

• Apply core principles and guidelines for effective trauma work.

• Recognise the importance of the therapeutic relationship and how to facilitate relational depth.

• Understand the phased oriented approach when working with traumatised clients

• Apply the core skills in stabilisation to create somatic safety and resource the clients (identifying triggers and tracking the negative reactive cycle)

• Utilising an integrative framework and essential knowledge for working with complex trauma clients, drawing on current research in trauma theory and therapy, attachment, affective neuroscience and interpersonal neurobiology.

• Understand the FOT approach—how it integrates body, mind, and emotion while engaging implicit, procedural memory.

• Recognise and work with fragile processes that emerge from complex trauma, adjusting your approach for greater therapeutic impact.

Empower Your Clients on Their Path to Healing

This workshop will help you support clients in a way that:

✅ Facilitates trauma stabilisation and recovery – Guide clients in finding safety within their bodies, rewiring old trauma responses, overcoming dissociation and hyper-reactivity, and developing stronger self-regulation.

✅ Supports deep trauma resolution – Help clients process their experiences, recognize their needs, make empowered choices, and build fulfilling, meaningful lives.

Join me for this immersive, results-driven workshop and gain the tools to transform trauma therapy with a deeply integrative, mind-body approach.