Sometimes terrible things happen. Maybe a road traffic accident, or the traumatic loss of a loved one. When it’s all over, it’s like your body remembers. You have flashbacks, or wake up in the night sweating. You are constantly on edge and can’t relax.
After trauma, we need to make sense of what happened for ourselves. We need to make it part of our life story, something that happened in the past. We all have the capacity to do that. We have the potential to heal from the things that have happened to us.
Sometimes that process can get stuck. We continue to feel as if we are about to be hit by a car, or that we are in the hospital waiting for news. We can’t move on in our lives, because we are stuck in the worst moment.
There are things you can do about that. Trauma therapy (like EMDR) can help, but there are also ways in which you can help yourself and your child to process traumatic events, and it’s those things I talk about in my webinars and courses.
Dr Naomi Fisher, clinical psychologist, will share with you how trauma and loss affect children and what their parents can do to help. With various handouts to download and extra audios, this course is a comprehensive and practical resource to help you support your child.
Living with your autistic child is like walking on eggshells. They sleep badly, they cling to you and they have extreme reactions to seemingly small events. They are very scared of particular things, and you aren't really sure why. Naomi will explain how trauma affects the brain - and why understanding trauma in autism requires us to look beyond major traumatic events to understand the person's individual experience.
In this mini course Naomi will talk about school trauma, how it occurs, what makes it worse and how parents can help. You'll leave with a new understanding of what has gone on for your child, why they are still affected by the past, and some ideas of what to do. This course will combine psychological theory with practical strategies and ideas.
Many of us start out as parents with the idea that we are going to Get It Right. We are going to provide the ideal childhood, with the perfect amount of care and attention. We will be a 100% reliable safe parent, never furious or punishing. Always calm and gentle – and our child will respond to that. We’ll never push them beyond what they can manage and we’ll always be connected and empathic.
Some of you may not know that I am a EMDR trainer, as well as a clinical psychologist. EMDR is an evidence-based therapy, recommended in the NICE guidelines for PTSD and I’ve been using it since 2005. Most recently I have become an accredited trainer, meaning that I can now train other therapists in EMDR.