Understand the causes and impacts of trauma and how to effectively respond and promote recovery

When: Monday 8 September and Tuesday 9 September 2025
Time: 9:30am–4:30pm (both days)
Duration: 7 hours (both days)
Location: Online

Step up your trauma response skills with one of Australia’s most knowledgeable trainers. Find out everything you need to know to be able to understand and respond to trauma in the alcohol and other drug sector in a sensitive and evidence based way. You will come away with clear frameworks for understanding trauma and an effective toolkit in this essential area of practice.

Building on our Trauma Informed Practice workshop, you will deepen your knowledge of trauma and practice advanced strategies to effectively support people with trauma symptoms in alcohol and other drug treatment. Go deeper into understanding and responding to trauma and enhance your knowledge, skills and confidence in working with people who have experienced trauma.

On average, participants of Trauma Inside Out: A two day masterclass in trauma informed practice report a 38% increase in knowledge, 35% increase in skills, and 30% increase in confidence. Satisfaction is rated at 8.8/10 on average and 91% of participants would recommend this workshop to others.

Learning outcomes

• Apply a model for responding to trauma to the specific context of alcohol and other drug treatment
• Increase your range of sensitive responses to trauma disclosure
• Understand how to integrate trauma into screening, assessment and treatment
• Recognise a range of trauma-related mental health conditions, signs and symptoms
• Develop detailed case conceptualisation and treatment planning for clients with co-occurring alcohol and other drug use and trauma
• Integrate effective approaches for stabilising trauma symptoms, so that you and your clients can get the best from their alcohol and drug treatment

Who should attend

This is an advanced skills workshop suitable for experienced and advanced practitioners. We recommend you do our Trauma Informed Practice workshop before attending this workshop. This workshop is suitable for workers in clinical settings.

Facilitator: Dr Richard Cash

 “Excellent presenter of relevant material to AOD work. Use of metaphor and humour appreciated. Case studies and role plays well integrated in an engaging and interesting manner.”

- Workshop participant 2024