Ros Townsend
Psychotherapist, trainer, author
Ros Townsend is an experienced psychotherapist who combines private therapy work with referrals from Occupational Health and the NHS. She has a special interest in working with those affected by psychological trauma and has worked extensively with survivors of domestic abuse, members of the blue-light services, and with military veterans through the veterans charity, PTSD Resolution, of which she is also a Trustee. She is author of the highly regarded self-help book, ‘PTSD: Understanding and Recovery’ and the recently published 'Why Three Fs?’, which sets trauma within a wider contextual understanding of what we need to thrive and lead emotionally healthy lives.Â
Ros is also a tutor for the Human Givens College and regularly provides bespoke training days for organisations looking to improve the wellbeing of their staff.
She developed the current Trauma Awareness Training programme for PTSD Resolution, which is delivered across the UK, and has been engaged as a speaker at events designed to raise awareness in the field of mental health.Â
She lives near the coast in the South West of England with her two children, and, when not reading a book, can be found climbing mountains or wild swimming.
Workshop Five - Patterns of the Past: the Human Givens approach to working successfully with trauma
Suffering from trauma, whether from a single incident or multiple events spread over the course of many years, can have a significantly impact on a person’s mental and physical health, and their quality of life. It can also greatly affect the lives of those around them. The term trauma has, however, become so broad that for a clinician it has ceased to mean anything specific. This means that traditional ‘trauma’ treatments, especially in more complex cases, rarely address the whole picture. Working from the holistic, organising idea of the Human Givens model of therapy, this talk will explore how we can work effectively with any presentation of which trauma is a part, and how we can adapt and apply underlying principles to respond to the unique model of reality for each client. This will include key psychoeducative approaches that have helped many thousands of people over the years, and an understanding of how we can empower clients, through the introduction of understanding, tools and techniques, to begin to shape and work towards their own recovery.Â
