Strategic Interventions presents a specialized training series for mental health professionals, counsellors, therapists, social workers, and frontline service providers. These workshops equip participants with practical tools to support trauma survivors using a trauma- and gender-based violence-informed narrative therapy approach. Rooted in social justice and feminist perspectives, the training fosters a compassionate, effective, and culturally responsive practice.

Building on Level 1, this session deepens participants’ understanding of narrative therapy techniques and their application in working with clients who have experienced multiple traumas, including childhood trauma, intimate partner violence, and sexual assault. Practical exercises will focus on trauma-informed interviewing, storytelling as a healing tool, and strategies for resilience-building.

Learning Outcomes:

• Core Principles of Narrative Therapy: Understand how narrative therapy applies to trauma and gender-based violence.
• Culturally Responsive Practice: Develop skills to support survivors from diverse backgrounds with an intersectional approach.
• Trauma-Informed Interviewing: Learn to conduct narrative therapy interviews tailored for individuals who have experienced multiple forms of trauma.
• Understanding the Impact of Trauma: Gain insight into the lasting effects of gender-based violence, intimate partner violence, and childhood trauma.
• Applying a Social Justice Lens: Integrate trauma- and gender-based violence-informed narrative therapy with feminist and anti-oppressive frameworks.
• Supporting Survivors Across the Lifespan: Learn best practices for working with clients of all ages who have experienced gender-based violence and complex trauma.

This training series is ideal for those looking to expand their trauma-informed practice with a specialized focus on narrative therapy and gender-based violence. Participants will leave with enhanced skills to support survivors and foster healing in their communities.