Explore a selection of free trauma-informed resources
designed to support your practice and deepen your understanding of survivor-centred care.
From practical tools to insightful guides, these resources offer a glimpse into the quality, depth, and integrity of the work we do at the BeyondTrauma Advisory Network (BTAN).
Each one has been created and curated by our team of trauma specialists and lived experience professionals, drawing on years of frontline practice and leadership in the field. They’re designed to help you strengthen your professional approach, inspire reflective learning, and embed compassion and accountability into every aspect of your work.
How to respond safely to distress, disclosure, and trauma without retraumatising. Click to download.
Practical tools and reflective frameworks for professionals. Click to download.
Recognising and responding to those moments when your intuition signals that something isn't quite right in an interaction. Click to download.
Equips professionals to recognise trauma responses, de-escalate with dignity, and restore control from the first encounter. Click to download.
Practical tools, frameworks, and approaches for professionals working in safeguarding roles. Click to download.
This guide explores how systems can harm rather than protect, using examples such as the Charing Cross gross misconduct case, and what trauma-informed cultures look like in practice. Providing reflection prompts and practical insights for professionals committed to doing this work differently. Click to download.
Empowering informational guide for adults who experienced child sexual abuse. It helps survivors understand trauma, recognise their rights, and navigate recovery with confidence and safety. Click to download.
Practical ideas to help you stay safe at home, online, and in your daily life, all designed with your dignity and independence in mind. Click to download.
Self-help guide for survivors of female genital mutilation. It explains the emotional and physical impacts of FGM, offers simple grounding and self-care practices. Click to download.
Learning to understand, respond, and reconnect with your child through their anger.
Understand how trauma shows up in behaviour and how to respond in ways that build safety, trust, and healing. It’s not about getting it perfect; it’s about staying calm, consistent, and compassionate — because every safe moment you create is a step towards recovery. Click to download.
Understand what child sexual exploitation (CSE) can look like and how to respond. Click to download.
This guide helps parents, carers, and foster families understand how everyday language can either build trust or accidentally cause harm.
A Gentle Guide for Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse. Learning to feel safe in your own skin again. Created by survivors for adult survivors reclaiming safety, strength, and presence. Click to download.
Building Safe Relationships After Abuse is a gentle guide for adult survivors of child sexual abuse learning to rebuild trust and boundaries. It offers practical steps for recognising red flags and creating safe, respectful relationships grounded in consent and care. Click to download.
Reclaiming Self-Worth and Identity After Abuse is an empowering guide for adult survivors of child sexual abuse to rediscover who they are beyond trauma. Through reflections and affirmations, it helps survivors reconnect with their strengths and values and rebuild a sense of identity grounded in compassion and self-respect. Click to download.
The Healing Power of Creativity helps adult survivors of child sexual abuse heal through art, writing, music, and movement, offering gentle ways to release emotion and express themselves. Click to download.
Stand Out as a Trauma-Informed Professional
By joining the BeyondTrauma Advisory Network (BTAN), your organisation or practice becomes part of a survivor-led, trauma-informed professional community committed to ethical, informed, and impactful work.
