THE RECOVERY SERIES FOR COUNSELLORS WORKING WITH FAMILY TRAUMA
Restore the space between action and reaction.
A counsellors’ guide and a companion client workbook for working through the effects of family trauma - together, at your clients’ pace.
Working through this for yourself? This series is designed to be worked through with a counsellor, not alone. You don’t have to do this by yourself.
ONE SYSTEM, TWO BOOKS
A guide for you. A workbook for your client
A counsellor's guide to working through the effects of family trauma with your clients.
Your guide to the four shifts and six elements of the Recovery Series: the thinking behind each one, how to introduce it in session, and how to hold a safe, non-judgmental space while your client explores. Use it alongside the client workbook.
A Comprehensive Approach to Family Dependency Trauma – the client workbook, designed to be used alongside the Therapist Edition.
Reflective activities, prompts and journal space that support the themes explored in session. Each page aligns with the therapist's materials, creating a shared structure for the work you do together.
Practice starter bundle
The counsellor book plus 3 client workbooks, so you can start with clients straight away. Save $21.
HOW IT WORKS
Four shifts, in every element
The same four shifts run through the whole series so your client builds on what they have learned each time. Wherever you start.
01
Uncover
See the original effects of the trauma, break through denial and grieve losses with love and compassion.
02
Bridge
Build a bridge between past and present and understand how trauma has woven itself into body and brain.
03
Strengthen
Challenge core values and beliefs and exchange weakened pillars of self for new ones.
04
Self-nourish
Solidify change with new rules, roles and values and learn to listen to themselves.
WHAT’S INSIDE
Six Elements. Start wherever your client is.
Dependence Demystified
Get to know the people or events behind the original trauma and shrink the hold they have.
Embodied Patterns - Four Roles
Learn the roles that kept them safe, then write and practise new ones for life beyond the trauma.
Motivation - Two things that Drive You
Discover what truly drives them, which values are their own then distil it into one statement.
Neutralising Hidden Family Rules
Don’t feel. Don’t trust. Don’t talk. See how these rules shaped them and how to step out of them.
Origins of Co-dependency
Controller, denier, rescuer, people-pleaser: understand how it happened and practise new ways.
Protection - Healing from Family Violence
Tell actual danger from perceived danger and learn a powerful way to repair the damage.
BUILT FOR HOW YOU WORK
Modular not linear
Healing isn't a straight line, so the series isn't either. Each element stands on its own: choose the ones that fit, introduce them in the order that suits your client, and come back to them as their understanding deepens.
Educational insight
A clear exploration of the four shifts and the patterns behind them
Reflective discovery
Worksheets that connect the insight to your client’s own experience.
Healing intervention
Practical, experiential steps that show change is possible.
Try a worksheet with a client
Get a free sample worksheet and the counsellor notes that go with it, plus occasional updates on the series and workshops.
IF THIS IS ABOUT YOU
You’re not alone in this and you don’t have to do it alone.
This work touches painful places, so it’s designed to be done with a counsellor beside you. You stay in charge the whole way and you can stop at any time.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Vicki-ann Nevin
Recovery educator, published author and workshop facilitator, with certified training in Creative Therapies and lived experience of growing up with family trauma.
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