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.
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 BeyondTraumaâ„¢ 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.
