Level 5 Diploma in Trauma Informed Psychotherapy
Course Requirements
Level 4 Counselling or suitable alternative
NCP membership (student membership accepted)
Course Topics
Foundation Theory
- Adverse Childhood Experiences
- Attachment – co-regulation / therapeutic relationship
- Neuroscience / psychoeducation / trauma / autonomic nervous system / fight, flight, freeze
- Ethics / scope of practice / personal responsibility / supervision / neutral stance
Essential Skills
- Effective research practice
- GDPR
- Business planning
Psychological Frameworks
- Maslow
- False self and the Five roles
- JOHARI
- Projection and Transference
- Karpman and The Empowerment Dynamic
- Archetypes and the Enneagram
- Shadow
- Emotions, emotional regulation tools and Window of Tolerance
Client Assessment
- Initial client interview
- Treatment plan and Formulation – personal history, mental health status
- Self-report measures
- Lifeline
- Consent
- Safety plans
Grounding, Containment, Stabilisation and Regulation Techniques
- Light stream
- Safe place visualisation
- Progressive muscle relaxation
- Body scan
- Mindfulness and meditation
- Transition objects
- Anchoring safety
- 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
- Tapping
- Flash
- Rewind
- Changing submodalities
Evidence-based process
How to facilitate therapeutic equine experiences
- STAIR
- Emotions
- Distress tolerance
- Goals
- Interpersonal schema
- Role play
- Boundaries
- Power balance
- Saying no
- I messages
Equine Module
How to create, manage and maintain a therapeutic herd
- History and herd dynamics
- Behaviour, psychology, ethology
- Natural horse husbandry
- Ethics
- Relational horsemanship
- Meet the herd
- Body scan
- Boundaries
- Reflective grooming
- Reflective experiences
- Active experiences
- Embodying the goal
- Head, heart, hara
- STAIR with horses