BCA SUMMER CONFERENCE: Working with Relational Trauma

Facilitated by Christiane Sanderson

For Counsellors, Psychotherapists, and Mental Health Practitioners

CPD Certificates Provided (7 hours CPD)

We are delighted to invite you to a thought-provoking and deeply enriching conference on Working with
Relational Trauma, led by renowned author and trauma expert Christiane Sanderson.

This four-part event is designed to support counsellors, psychotherapists, and mental health professionals in understanding and working more effectively with complex trauma in clinical practice.

Throughout the day, attendees will gain insight into the psychological, emotional, and relational impacts of trauma and develop tools for more attuned, trauma-informed work.

Christiane Sanderson

Biography Christiane Sanderson is a former senior lecturer in Psychology at the University of Roehampton, of London with over 35 years of experience working in the field of childhood sexual abuse, sexual violence and complex trauma. She has delivered advice and training for parents, teachers, social workers, nurses, therapists, counsellors, the police and faith communities. Her research interests span trauma informed therapeutic practice, PTSD, Complex Trauma, CSA, domestic abuse and Narcissism.
She is the author of:

• We Are Still Here: What Counsellors and Therapists Can learn from the Lived Experiences of Child Sexual Abuse Survivors’;
• Working with Survivors of Sibling Sexual Abuse: A Guide to Therapeutic Support and Protection for Children and Adults;
• Counselling Skills for Working with Shame;
• Counselling Skills for Working with Trauma: Healing from Child Sexual Abuse, Sexual Violence and Domestic Abuse;
• Counselling Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, 3rd edition;
• Counselling Survivors of Domestic Abuse;
• The Seduction of Children: Empowering Parents and Teachers to Protect Children from Child Sexual Abuse;
• Introduction to Counselling Survivors of Interpersonal Trauma, all published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

She has also written for the charity One in Four for whom she is a trustee:

• The Warrior Within: A One in Four Handbook to Aid Recovery from Sexual Violence 4th Edition
• The Spirit Within: A One in Four Handbook to Aid Recovery from Religious Sexual Abuse
  Across All Faiths
• Responding to Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse: A pocket guide for professionals, partners, families and friends
• Numbing the Pain: A pocket guide for professionals supporting survivors of childhood sexual abuse and addiction

Location: Westminster Quaker Meeting House – https://westminsterquakers.org.uk/contact-us/getting-here