Medical Trauma Collaborative

The Medical Trauma Collaborative Ltd has been created with the idea of a shared strengths resource pool, combining the expertise of a variety of Healthcare Professionals who specialise in working with Medical Trauma (MT), for the benefit of patients, Counsellors, Psychotherapists and all Health Care Clinicians in the UK and N Ireland. This could be as a Counsellor, or those working in an educational, supervisory or research capacity.

In addition to generating awareness, my intention is to form a not-for-profit company in the UK and Republic of Ireland where all those involved in the MT Collaborative eventually receive an income for their time invested.  Services would include networking and referring patients for therapy, educational group therapy for patients who have experienced MT or Medical Anxiety (MA), teaching a trauma informed approach  through the lived experience as well as a psycho-educational lense to health care professionals. We will also be providing conversational podcasts with other experts, interviews with people who would like to share their personal story, and educational resources via publications, papers, books etc. 

The Medical Trauma Recovery Alliance is also currently being established in the US and I'm thrilled to have been invited to its first meeting recently. Ideally as time moves on, the intention is to offer a global centre of resources to support patients and clinicians alike who are experiencing MT symptoms. 

As I welcome introductions from others working with MT, we had our first MT Collab meeting in June as well as another MTRA meeting in the US! The BACP conference this month has also generated a lot of interest and our next meeting is planned for Thursday 19th November from midday; 12pm – 1.30pm on zoom. Please email me if you would like to join us! A resource page, together with 2027 dates for MT & TIC training will be available shortly.