Training

Safe Space provides access to a wide range of trauma training, with an annual CPD programme including in-person workshops and online world-class therapists. 

With thanks to Fife Voluntary Action Community Health and Wellbeing Fund for making these specialist events possible.

In house training for counsellors:

Opening Pandora's Box

1. Dissociation/Self-injury/Eating Distress

Sunday 18th and Sunday 25th January 2026 10.45am - 4.15pm both days

2-day workshop which offers a theoretical framework to examine links and commonalities between these areas, drawing on experiential working, case discussion and group demonstration, to include:

- The distorting effects of shame
- Links with overwhelming emotion & depersonalisation
- Effects on body image
- Survivors' perspectives
- Inter-related physiological & psychological dimensions
- Implications of recent findings in neuroscience research
- Flexible & creative empathic responses to shame-based communication
- Impact of policies and procedures
- Further learning resources

2. Insiduous impact/Vicarious trauma

Sunday 1st and Sunday 8th February 2026 10.45am - 4.15pm both days

2-day workshop integrating theoretical, experiential and practice elements, to explore the threads of relating which can be subtly affected by traumatic experience, to include:

- The nature of empathy (the spectrum; fundamental aspects of humanity and connectedness; congruent communication)
- The impact of trauma (developing sense of self; silence, secrecy and confusion)
- Conflicting personal dynamics in relation to the unspoken (acceptance/rejection; a framework to understand and explore merging/withdrawal)
- Somatic reactions (adrenaline; sexuality; dissociative experiences)
- Developing understanding of "professional" vs "personal" processes (aspects of supervision; commitment to self-care

External participants are welcome to join at a cost of £100 for workshop 1, 

and £200 for both workshops 1 and 2

Please contact Safe Space directly to book

2026 CPD Training for Safe Space Counsellors

Sexuality and Sexual Preoccupation in Trauma Therapy
Sunday 15th February 2026

Sandtray
Sunday 1st March 2026

Narcissistic Threads in Relationship: Working with Stuckness in Therapy
Sunday 8th March 2026

Online training:

Shame; dysregulation; sensorimotor psychotherapy

Access to modules and presentations by Carolyn Spring, Babette Rothschild, Christiane Sanderson, Bessel van der Kolk, Pat Ogden, Peter Levine, Cathy Steele and others, via Nscience, NICABM and The Awake Network.