Understanding Your Own Trauma

1. What is trauma?

2. Going through a traumatic experience

3. Trauma memories

4. Recognising trauma

5. Our feelings

6. Containment

7. Anxiety and depression

8. Processing trauma

9. Recovery from trauma

10. Trauma in the general population

Psychological trauma is an emotional response to a distressing event or series of events that overwhelms an individual’s ability to cope. Trauma overwhelms the processes in our brain, which usually help us to make sense of experiences and can have a lasting impact on our lives.

Research shows that by making sense of traumatic events, people can process them and effectively manage triggers. This course is designed to support a better understanding of trauma, and it will guide your personal journey – everyone’s experience of trauma is different and finding the right way to process and manage your experience is personal.

Understanding your own trauma is for people who have experienced trauma at any point in their lives, perhaps through loss, bereavement, an accident, or illness. It is also for those who want to support friends or family through trauma. This course is not a replacement for therapy or counselling.

This course takes approximately 3 hours to complete however this can be completed in short individual units at a time that is convenient for you.

It is not recommended you complete the course in one go, because the advantage of doing a course online is that you have time in between Modules or Units to process your learning and to see it in the world.