Tricky Behaviours, Troubled Souls: Working with Children with Challenging Behaviours

About the event

This event is aimed at empowering delegates with key knowledge and techniques to support children and young people who act out in challenging ways. Tracy Godfroy has worked for many years with children and young people who have experienced complex trauma, and who continue to experience significant levels of underlying emotional distress that often manifests in challenging behaviour.

Through case material and professional reflection, Tracy will discuss the power of connection and relationship as fundamental to the vital task of emotional regulation and healing.

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Presenter: Tracy Godfroy

Tracy is an Integrative Child Psychotherapist and Clinical Supervisor with twenty years’ experience of working with traumatised children and adolescent clients and their families. She works at a therapeutic community for young girls aged between 9 and 18 years who have experienced backgrounds of severe trauma, abuse and neglect. She specialises in group and individual therapy with clients who have experienced complex trauma and interfamilial sexual abuse. She also works closely, where possible, with parents, carers and keyworkers as well as with the child. Within the therapeutic relationship she encourages the use of the arts as a medium for creative expression. Tracy was previously Head of Therapeutic Programme during which time she created and established the individual and therapeutic group work programme targeting areas such sexual abuse and exploitation, living with domestic violence, mental health and emotional well-being, assertiveness, sense of self, personal and cultural identity and raising self-esteem. She now provides clinical supervision and training to the staff and education team at the therapeutic school and community. She is based in Bath where she has a small private practice. She has completed courses and trainings in Child Development, Transactional Analysis, Counselling Skills in a Multi-Cultural setting, Group Analysis with IGA, Somatic Trauma Training with Babette Rothschild, Intensive Trauma Treatment with Bessel van der Kolk. She is currently working towards Certification as a Practitioner in DDP (Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy).