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Individual Counselling
Transcend Trauma UK offers a private and confidential counselling service with Geraldine. You work one-on-one with her, focusing on whatever issues you choose to bring to counselling and aiming toward healing and growth. With extensive experience and training she brings a depth of understanding to sessions, offering unique insights and strategies for dealing with trauma and dissociation.
- Over 15 years of expertise
- Face to face sessions at Essential Therapies in Sidmouth
- Walk and talk sessions local to Sidmouth
- Zoom sessions
- Telephone appointments
- BACP accredited member
Walk and Talk Group - Starting May 2025
We offer a monthly walk and talk group based in Sidmouth on the last Sunday morning of every month. This is for anyone of any age to meet like minded people who face similar challenges with mental health, past trauma or confidence. Led by our Counsellor and Therapeutic Social Worker we offer a safe space to feel heard and understood.
Online Support Group
Working together to rebuild, restore and rewrite.
Join us on the first Tuesday of every month at 7:30pm. Our online support group provides a safe space to explore life's challenges and think of alternative ways to address them.
We seek to offer support while enabling you to meet others who understand your experiences. This group is particularly suitable for those who have mental heath difficulties, past trauma, dissociation or similar challenges.
Training
We provide training events for professionals to increase their awareness of trauma and dissociation and to assist them in developing a more trauma informed environment for both staff and those they work with.
We also work with medical and social work students, offering ongoing mentoring as well as specific teaching sessions.
Please see the Professionals Page for more details
Healing Workshops
Our workshops are designed to assist in understanding trauma and to encourage group members to explore their experiences in an empathic environment, helping participants to process and understand trauma in a different way.
Each workshop will provide psycho-educative material while also allowing space for personal reflection and application. Participants will be encouraged to explore the subject material to the extent they feel able and safe to do so with other group members and ourselves as the 2 experienced group facilitators.
Please use the contact option to let us know if you are interested in attending and we will send you further information.
The Retreat
The Retreats are offered jointly by both Cathy and Geraldine. We have written a package of workshops and activities that are designed to move from looking back, to looking to the future. Where participants are assisted to understand why they have responded to trauma as they have, and to release anything that is preventing them moving towards the life they want.
The Retreats are held between April and October to allow participants to make best use of the local outdoor areas which are renowned as being peaceful, calming and beautiful places.
All upcoming dates for workshops and Retreats will be shared via social media, so following our Instagram or Facebook page will give you up to date information. Tickets are available via Eventbrite, but we would encourage you to contact us with an expression of interest. This will assist us in responding to demand. We will also be able to let you know when we have a workshop available and reserve your place.