Supporting Families Through Grief & Trauma

Please note this workshop is for front-line professionals supporting bereaved families

This one day workshop from Anam Cara will give frontline personnel a deeper insight into grief and trauma, the impact on family members going through the loss, how we can support and care for ourselves through the process.

Anam Cara have been running this workshop since 2022 and always books up quickly.

Brid Carroll is a counsellor, counselling supervisor, educator and advocate for supporting the bereaved. She has experience of working with bereaved families though all circumstances, including sudden deaths. Brid is currently involved in the development of support networks for bereaved children in Ireland through chairing the Irish Childhood Bereavement Network (www.childhoodbereavement.ie). The network supports families and professionals who support bereaved children throughout Ireland. She also heads up the Children and Loss Certificate with the Irish Hospice Foundation.

David Trickey worked as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist in the Specialist Trauma and Maltreatment Service at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, London (AFNCCF). He is the co-director of the UK Trauma Council. He has specialised in working with traumatised children, young people and their families since 2000. He continues to focus on direct clinical work and the supervision of other clinicians working with traumatised children and young people. He regularly offers training and consultation, he presents at international conferences, and he supervises doctoral research. He acts as an expert witness in civil and criminal cases in the area of children and trauma. In all of his roles he draws heavily on the published research literature, to which he has made a minor contribution.