Understand Trauma. Build Practical Tools. Move Forward.
Choose the level of support and learning that is right for you — from our complete BeyondTrauma™ Recovery Programme to focused self-study modules and interactive UNPACK workshops.
Complete structured recovery pathway.
Focused learning at your own pace.
Interactive facilitated learning.
THE COMPLETE RECOVERY PATHWAY
Our flagship 7-session psychoeducational intervention provides a structured journey through understanding trauma, recognising triggers and emotional responses, developing practical coping and regulation tools, and building resilience for the future.
Created by Mayameen Meftahi BEM, the BeyondTrauma™ Recovery Programme is grounded in lived experience and professional practice. It focuses on understanding what trauma does, rather than asking people to disclose or revisit what happened to them.
The programme is delivered through supported self-study, allowing participants to work through each session at their own pace, followed by a dedicated 1:1 reflective debrief, available online via Zoom or face-to-face.
✓ 7 structured learning sessions
✓ Comprehensive self-help workbook
✓ Practical regulation and recovery tools
✓ 1:1 reflective debrief on completion
✓ ACCPH recognised • 15 CPD points
The BeyondTrauma™ Recovery Programme is more than a personal recovery journey. On successful completion, participants receive an ACCPH-accredited certificate carrying 15 CPD points, recognising the learning and development undertaken throughout the programme.
This means participants don’t simply leave with greater understanding and practical tools for managing trauma — they also leave with recognised evidence of learning and achievement that can contribute to their personal and professional development.
The certificate can be added to a CV, professional development record or learning portfolio, helping participants recognise that their recovery journey has also built knowledge, skills and achievement they can carry forward.
MORE THAN SEVEN SESSIONS
BeyondTrauma™ is not simply a collection of trauma information or wellbeing exercises. The seven sessions have been intentionally structured to take participants from understanding what trauma does, through recognising their own responses and developing practical regulation strategies, towards acceptance, resilience and maintaining recovery beyond the programme.
Participants learn about the relationship between trauma, the brain, adrenaline, triggers, anxiety, emotional numbing, anger and coping responses — helping experiences that can feel confusing or overwhelming begin to make sense.
That understanding is then translated into practice. Throughout the programme, participants are introduced to regulation techniques, coping strategies, somatic practices, reflective exercises and practical tools that they can experiment with and continue using in everyday life.
Crucially, BeyondTrauma™ does this without requiring participants to tell their trauma story. The focus is not on asking “What happened to you?” but on helping people understand “What may be happening within me now — and what can I do with that understanding?”
Making Sense of Trauma
Connecting Learning to Yourself
Building a Practical Toolkit
Recovery Beyond the Sessions
Accessible psychoeducation helps participants understand trauma responses, the brain, adrenaline, triggers and patterns that may previously have felt confusing or unexplained.
Structured reflection helps participants recognise their own responses and patterns without requiring disclosure or detailed exploration of traumatic events.
Participants explore breathing retraining, regulation strategies, coping mechanisms, somatic practices and other tools they can continue to use beyond the programme.
The later learning brings together acceptance, self-esteem, relapse awareness, recovery and resilience — supporting participants to consider how they maintain what they have learned after completion.
The BeyondTrauma™ Recovery Programme is a complete supported psychoeducational recovery pathway, combining seven structured sessions, a comprehensive workbook, practical recovery tools and a dedicated 1:1 reflective debrief, available online via Zoom or face-to-face.
The full supported self-study programme is normally £497 and is currently available at a standard self-funded rate of £297.
We also recognise that financial circumstances can be one of the barriers to accessing trauma recovery support. To make the programme more accessible, we offer a self-funded sliding scale, allowing participants to choose the contribution level that best reflects their circumstances.
Whichever rate you choose, you receive exactly the same programme, learning resources, 1:1 reflective debrief and ACCPH-recognised completion carrying 15 CPD points.
BeyondTrauma Academy CIC also works with funders, commissioners and community partners to provide fully funded access to the BeyondTrauma™ Recovery Programme for eligible participants.
The Programme Doesn't Change Because It's FundedWhether you access BeyondTrauma™ through a self-funded place, our sliding scale or an eligible funded opportunity, you receive the same high-quality core Recovery Programme.
Funding simply removes the financial barrier — it does not reduce the quality or value of the programme.
Funded places are subject to individual project eligibility, location, availability and funding criteria.
We currently have a limited number of fully funded supported self-study places remaining through our National Lottery-funded provision for women from Global Majority communities, including Black, Asian and other racially minoritised backgrounds.
Eligible women can access the complete BeyondTrauma™ Recovery Programme at no cost to themselves, including the full seven-session programme, workbook, 1:1 reflective debrief and ACCPH-recognised completion carrying 15 CPD points.
A new funded pathway for women in Stockport, Greater Manchester will also be opening soon through our Trauma to Opportunity: Stockport Women’s Employability & Leadership Pathway.
This will combine trauma recovery learning with opportunities to support participants in moving forward into greater community connection, confidence, skills, volunteering and progression.
Registration will open soon.
You Don't Have To Tell Your Story To Understand Your Trauma. BeyondTrauma™ focuses on understanding the impact of trauma, not requiring people to recount what happened to them. Participants can learn, reflect and develop practical recovery tools without being asked to disclose or revisit traumatic experiences.
FOCUSED LEARNING • YOUR OWN PACE
Sometimes you may want to explore one particular aspect of trauma and recovery rather than complete the full programme. Our standalone self-study modules provide focused psychoeducational learning, practical tools and reflective resources that you can access independently and work through at your own pace.
These modules draw on learning from the BeyondTrauma™ Recovery Programme and can also be used by programme graduates who want to revisit a particular area.
Standalone modules are self-directed learning resources. They include a self-development certificate but do not include the 1:1 reflective debrief or ACCPH-validated completion certificate provided through the full BeyondTrauma™ Recovery Programme.
Coming Soon
Understand emotional shutdown and begin reconnecting with your emotions.
Explore why emotional numbing can develop following trauma and learn practical ways to recognise emotional disconnection, reconnect safely with feelings and develop healthier coping strategies.
Includes:
✓ Trauma-informed psychoeducation
✓ Recorded survivor group learning
✓ Somatic practices & coping tools
✓ Reflective worksheets
✓ Self-development certificate
✓ Learn independently at your own pace
Understand anger, recognise your triggers and develop healthier ways to respond.
Explore the relationship between trauma and anger, identify patterns and triggers, and develop practical strategies for emotional regulation, acceptance and responding differently when anger arises.
Includes:
✓ Trauma-informed psychoeducation
✓ Recorded survivor group learning
✓ Somatic practices & coping tools
✓ Reflective worksheets
✓ Self-development certificate
✓ Learn independently at your own pace
INTERACTIVE LEARNING • GUIDED CONVERSATION
Some things are easier to understand when we have space to unpack them together.
UNPACK is BeyondTrauma Academy CIC’s interactive workshop series, creating accessible spaces to explore trauma, recovery and the experiences we carry with us.
Using the metaphor of a suitcase, each workshop invites participants to UNPACK a particular topic — building awareness, understanding what may be happening beneath the surface, reflecting without pressure to disclose, and leaving with practical tools that can be carried forward.
These are psychoeducational workshops, not therapy, and participants are never required to share personal traumatic experiences.
UNPACK is an interactive, trauma-informed learning experience built around one simple idea: we all carry things with us.
Using a suitcase as the central metaphor, participants are guided through a structured process of exploring what we carry as a result of our experiences — the thoughts, beliefs, emotions, behaviours and coping responses that can become packed away with us over time.
Rather than asking people to disclose personal experiences, UNPACK uses psychoeducation, physical resources, creative activities, guided reflection and symbolic exercises to make complex ideas about trauma easier to understand and engage with.
Participants are invited to consider what may need to be unpacked, understood or released, before exploring what they would consciously choose to repack and carry forward.
The suitcase stays the same. What is inside it belongs to the participant.
The first half creates psychological safety and introduces the UNPACK framework. Using the suitcase and specially designed workshop materials, participants explore:
What am I carrying? → Where might it come from? → How might it affect me? → What can I unpack? → What do I want to carry forward instead?
This combines trauma education with reflection, practical tools and symbolic release and repacking activities, creating something people can experience rather than simply listen to.
This is where UNPACK adapts.
The second half applies the learning to a particular issue, experience or setting. This can be designed around areas such as sexual abuse, domestic abuse, gang involvement and serious violence, PTSD, anger, relationships, self-worth, returning to work, financial confidence or another topic identified by the group or commissioning organisation.
The subject can change while the UNPACK methodology remains consistent.
The topic is bespoke. The UNPACK experience is signature.
BeyondTrauma Academy CIC combines lived experience with trauma-informed professional practice to create learning that is accessible, practical and grounded in the realities of trauma and recovery. The BeyondTrauma™ Recovery Programme, created by Mayameen Meftahi BEM, is ACCPH validated and sits at the heart of our award-winning approach.
Independent professional validation of the BeyondTrauma™ Recovery Programme.
Recognised as Best Trauma Recovery Specialists 2025 and Most Transformative Trauma Recovery Academy 2025.
Created and led by Mayameen Meftahi BEM, bringing lived experience together with professional trauma practice.
Our participant feedback shows the difference that understanding trauma can make. BeyondTrauma™ helps people make sense of their responses, develop practical strategies and feel better equipped to manage the impact of trauma in everyday life.
Based on participant feedback from BeyondTrauma™ Recovery Programme delivery.
FROM PROGRAMME TO PRACTICE
Since its development, the BeyondTrauma™ Recovery Programme has moved beyond a single delivery setting, informing trauma recovery and psychoeducational practice across community, education and commissioned services.
Its development has been shaped through direct delivery, participant feedback, professional engagement and collaboration — helping the approach continue to evolve while remaining rooted in the experiences of people affected by trauma.
Commissioned Delivery
The programme has been commissioned and funded for delivery within community and public-service settings.
Education & Young People
BeyondTrauma™ learning has informed intervention and mentoring work within alternative and specialist education settings.
Professional Learning
The approach has been shared within professional learning environments, including the Queen’s Nursing Institute.
Growing Beyond One Facilitator
Through BTA’s facilitator pathway, trained practitioners can take the BeyondTrauma™ approach into their own professional and community settings.
Funded and commissioned partnerships have helped us make trauma recovery learning accessible to people who may otherwise face barriers to support.
Whether you’re looking for a complete supported recovery pathway, focused learning you can explore independently, or an interactive workshop for your organisation or community, there is a BeyondTrauma™ route for you.
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
ACCPH Accredited • 6 CPD Points
A practical and engaging exploration of trauma, its impact on the brain, body and behaviour, and how professionals can create safer, more effective and compassionate environments for people affected by adversity and trauma.
Delivered by Mayameen Meftahi BEM, Founder and Lead Trauma Specialist at BeyondTrauma Academy CIC and creator of the award-winning BeyondTrauma™ Recovery Programme, this training brings together professional knowledge, lived experience and survivor-informed insight to provide a deeper understanding of trauma and recovery.
Combining lived experience with professional practice, Mayameen offers insight into the realities of trauma, the responses that can sit beneath behaviour and the practical approaches that can support people more effectively.
This training moves beyond theory, helping professionals understand the real-life impact of trauma and how to embed trauma-informed principles into everyday practice.
Understanding Trauma
Develop a clearer understanding of trauma, adversity and the ways traumatic experiences can continue to influence thoughts, emotions, behaviour, relationships and everyday functioning.
The Brain, Body & Survival Response
Explore what happens when the brain and body perceive threat, including the role of adrenaline and survival responses, and why these responses can continue even when immediate danger has passed.
Triggers & Trauma Responses
Understand how obvious and less obvious triggers can activate trauma responses and how these may present through anxiety, avoidance, anger, withdrawal, emotional numbing or other behaviours.
Looking Beneath Behaviour
Explore how behaviours that can appear challenging, disengaged or difficult may make greater sense when viewed through a trauma-informed lens — helping professionals move away from judgement and towards understanding.
Trauma-Informed Communication
Consider the impact of language, professional interactions, trust, choice, boundaries and communication on someone who has experienced trauma.
Creating Safer Professional Practice
Explore practical ways professionals and organisations can reduce the risk of further distress, promote emotional and psychological safety and embed trauma-informed principles into everyday interactions and environments.
From Understanding To Application
Apply the learning to real-world professional practice and consider what can be done differently within your own role, team or organisation.
This training is suitable for professionals and teams working with children, young people or adults who may have experienced trauma, adversity, abuse or violence.
It can support work across:
Education • Health & Social Care • Criminal Justice • VAWG & Survivor Services • Community & Voluntary Organisations • Frontline & Support Services
No previous specialist trauma training is required.
3 Hours • Half Day • Full Day
Training can be commissioned for organisations and professional teams through live online or face-to-face delivery.
Longer formats provide additional space for discussion, reflection, practical application and exploration of trauma-informed practice within the organisation’s own setting.
ACCPH Accredited • 6 CPD Points
Participants completing the accredited training receive certification recognising their continuing professional development.
Give your team the knowledge and practical understanding to look beyond behaviour, recognise trauma responses and respond with greater awareness, compassion and confidence.