The Complex Trauma Training Hub
The Complex Trauma Training Hub provides in-depth training in complex trauma, attachment and dissociation, for therapists who want to work at relational depth. Training with me every week, or on demand if you don't want to attend sessions live.
Monthly rolling – cancel any time. Student rate for Hub Live is £40 pcm. Eligibility requirements and terms apply.
Two ways to join
Hub Live contains everything in Hub On Demand, and adds the live sessions with Carolyn and Sally, session recordings, and the community platform. If you start with On Demand and want to upgrade your experience, you can do so at any time as long as you meet the eligibility criteria.
For qualified counsellors and psychotherapists and trainees on at least a Level 4 course.
Student membership £40 pcm
Monthly rolling, cancel any time
Open to everyone
Or £300 for 12 months
Monthly rolling, cancel any time
| Hub Live£65 pcm · £40 students | Hub On Demand£30 pcm · £300 a year | |
|---|---|---|
| Weekly live training session with me, usually Fridays 2–3.30pm | ||
| Live sessions are usually recorded and available within 24 hours | ||
| 100+ hours of recordings from previous live sessions | ||
| Monthly live process and supervision group with Sally Atkinson | ||
| The new Attachment and Shame series, from September 2026 | ||
| The Assessment, Boundaries and Contracting series | ||
| Discussion groups, peer networking and referral opportunities | ||
| CPD certificates for all your participation hours | ||
| A place to grow and belong and be part of a community of other psychotherapists working with complex trauma | ||
| All 10 of my online courses, plus 4 webinars | ||
| ‘Becoming a Sensitive Attachment Figure’ – 24 sessions, 12+ hours, only available in the Hub | ||
| Visual resources: posters, infographics and slide decks | ||
| Audio resources, including podcast episodes | ||
| Unshame in full, as text and as an audio recording | ||
| Video clips and excerpts from previous training | ||
| Available 24/7 on the web and in the app | ||
| CPD certificates for each course you complete |
All of these are in both Hub Live and Hub On Demand.
Before you join
Hub Live and Hub On Demand have different entry requirements. Please read these before you join, because it saves us both a difficult email later.
Qualified counsellors, psychotherapists and other mental health professionals, and trainees enrolled on a Level 4 course or above. We check your eligibility by asking to see your credentials, such as membership of a professional body such as BACP, UKCP, NCPS, COSRT or BABCP.
The library of Carolyn's training is open to anyone who is interested in learning more about how to work with complex trauma and recover from it. It's a low-cost option offering exceptional value for money. All content is available on demand 24/7.
Whichever you choose, the material assumes you're prepared to think hard, sit with complexity, and keep coming back to it. Some of our members have been working with trauma for 20 years. Some qualified last summer. Both do well here.
Why people come
Your core training probably gave you very little on complex trauma. Then a client arrived whose distress didn't behave the way you had been taught to expect.
The work got stuck, or it got very big, or it got both at once. Sessions started ending five minutes late. You found yourself thinking about one particular client on a Sunday evening. And at some point you sat there and wondered, quietly, whether you were really the right person to be doing this at all.
I hear this constantly: trauma which is profoundly stuck; difficulty holding the frame when the client needs you to flex it; the sheer intensity of the work, and what it costs you to stay in the room with it; how to ‘be with’ the client when the quick answer (and the unsatisfactory answer) is to ‘do something to’ the client. And underneath all of it, the isolation – because you're carrying it largely on your own, with maybe just an hour of supervision a month, and no-one to go to ask the really knotty questions of how to work with the level of complexity that your training didn't prepare you for.
That last one is the part I care about most. We know that what traumatises a person is not only what happened to them, but the fact that there was nobody there whilst it was happening. And then we send therapists out to do the most demanding work in the profession, and we leave them to do it alone.
What the Hub is
The Complex Trauma Training Hub is my professional training membership for counsellors and psychotherapists working with trauma, attachment and dissociation. It runs on its own platform, available on the web and as an app, and it has been going since March 2024.
Working with complex trauma is complex. I can't make it simple, and I won't pretend to. What I try to do is make it understandable – to take the neuroscience and the attachment literature and the clinical theory and turn them into something you can actually use at half past three on a Wednesday afternoon with a real person in front of you.
So this isn't a place for quick answers. There are no protocols here, no five-step models, no technique which will finally unlock the client you've been stuck with for 18 months. If that's what you're after, you'll be disappointed here, because we don't give pat answers, and we don't expect magic tricks to work with people who have suffered profoundly. Instead, we expect it to take time for people's nervous systems to learn new ways of being safe in the world. And we know that the therapist needs to give themselves that time too: time to become the best therapist they can be, which cannot be achieved in a one-off CPD.
What we do instead is stay with the difficulty. We look at what's happening in the room, in both nervous systems, in the relationship. We take dissociation seriously rather than treating it as an oddity. We come back to the same questions over months and years, because that's how depth actually accumulates.
It won't suit everyone, and it isn't meant to.
New, and only here
A full training series on what it actually takes to be the attachment figure your client has probably never had. You can't buy it as a standalone course, and you won't find it anywhere else.
Mary Ainsworth's finding was that sensitivity is the variable which matters – not warmth on its own, not good intentions, not technique. So this series works through what sensitivity means in the room: how you read what your client is signalling when the signal is deliberately confusing, how you stay regulated enough to be useful, how you keep showing up as somebody safe for a person whose whole nervous system predicts that closeness is dangerous.
Even if you already own every course I've ever released, this alone is worth the membership fee. It's new material, it's substantial, and one month of Hub On Demand costs less than a tenth of what a course like this is worth.
Inside Hub Live
Come to as much or as little as you want to.
90 minutes, taught live and interactive, occasionally at other times. Arrive and leave whenever you need to. We encourage participation as this is the place you get to interact with Carolyn and other members of the Hub – it's your chance to discuss, and reflect together, seek peer support, and feel less alone.
A smaller, slower space led by UKCP psychotherapist and clinical supervisor, Sally Atkinson, who is also a tutor on Sherwood Psychotherapy Institute's Masters in Integrative Psychotherapy. She knows above all else how to grow and develop therapists. Her sessions will be less about content and more about what the work is doing to you, and what you're bringing into the room without meaning to.
A new live series following on from ‘Becoming a Sensitive Attachment Figure’. It grows organically rather than running to a fixed number of sessions, so joining part-way through doesn't matter.
This series will go deeply into the phenomenon of shame in working with complex trauma, especially from an attachment lens. There are two people in the room; there are two people's shame, and we'll look at both, and how to heal it and mitigate its potential impact on the work.
Who you'll be learning with
I'm a trainer, an author and a consultant. I've spent more than 15 years studying complex trauma and dissociative disorders, I've trained over 57,000 people, and I've consulted to inpatient and outpatient complex trauma services in the UK and overseas. I've provided hundreds of hours of 1:1 consultations to therapists working with complex trauma, run a charity helping dissociative survivors, and worked across a range of services. My background is also as a therapeutic foster carer where for 15 years I saw up close and personal the impact of trauma and the power of attachment on children's lives. I've also been the client – over a decade of psychotherapy for dissociative identity disorder – which is why I keep insisting that there are two people in every therapy room and that training ought to hear from both.
What I don't do is work as a psychotherapist. So when Sally Atkinson joined me, it wasn't a marketing decision. She's UKCP-registered, she's a clinical supervisor, and she trains therapists at Masters level. She's in the chair every week doing the work I teach about. Between us, you get someone who has been the client, and someone who is the clinician. You get the strength of my left brain with the strength of her right brain. With us training together, you'll get the best of both worlds.
Author, trainer and consultant
Author of Unshame: Healing trauma-based shame through psychotherapy and Recovery is my best revenge. Her 4D Framework reframes trauma as the experience of ‘there's nobody there’, and locates recovery in the presence of a safe, attuned other. She teaches from both deep study and lived experience.
UKCP psychotherapist, supervisor & Level 7 MSc tutor
A UKCP-registered integrative psychotherapist and clinical supervisor, and a tutor on the MSc in Integrative Psychotherapy at the Sherwood Psychotherapy Training Institute. She has worked with Mind, with the cancer charity Coping With Cancer, and as a psychotherapist for the NHS Practitioner Health Programme. She runs a thriving psychotherapy practice in Oakham, the Rutland Therapy Centre.
From members
What you have created here is so precious and possibly the most helpful and beneficial resource I have ever been involved in. As my work specifically is trauma-based, I have no desire to keep buying or attending other CPD ‘trainings’ as I am gaining so much from being a part of this community. I honestly love it! And I love the safety it is bringing, to enable me to be me more. THANK YOU – it's just excellent.
Hub member
I really appreciate this community. It can feel very isolating as a therapist and at times it's too easy to over-identify with your shame gremlins. Carolyn makes me feel seen and very valued professionally. Hearing from other therapists about their own shame gremlins and how they work with them has been incredibly inspiring and hopeful.
Hub member
The felt experience of being with Carolyn and the group supports my nervous system's learning capacity. All of the live or recorded content is delivered with such consideration, realness and congruence, really supporting the members through a lens of ‘Unshame’. This safety and honesty is something I have not experienced in other training forums.
Hub member
Before you decide
Almost nobody comes to everything. The Friday session is usually recorded and up within 24 hours, so plenty of members watch on a Sunday morning or in the gap between clients on a Tuesday.
Others never attend live at all, but eagerly watch the sessions over a weekend. They interact with other members via the messaging app or discussion posts. They stay up-to-date with the training even though they're not actually there to participate.
Most of us do.
But it's worth asking why. CPD bought alone tends to get abandoned alone. There's nothing in the diary, nobody notices whether you turn up, and the material sits there quietly turning into evidence that you don't follow things through – which is its own small piece of shame.
What's different here is that something is happening on Friday whether you come or not, other people are in the room, and you're a part of something, with colleagues to call upon 24/7 via the platform, and with the option for referrals and input. You're no longer alone. That alone changes the odds considerably of whether you'll complete the course.
You need to do CPD each year as part of the requirements of your professional body, and for ethical reasons, especially when working with complexity. This is a highly cost effective way of doing so. If you cannot commit to learning and support when working with complex trauma, ask yourself if you really ought to be working with complex trauma.
If money is really tight, then start with Hub On Demand at £30 per month. You get 10 courses, 4 webinars, and a 24-session series which isn't for sale anywhere else – and you can upgrade to Live later if you recognise your need for community and learning alongside others.
Both are monthly rolling, so you can cancel before your next billing date and nothing further is taken.
In person, with Carolyn and Sally
Carolyn and Sally together run Yellow Frog Psychotherapy Training with live, in-person days planned from September 2026 onwards from their base in Melton Mowbray, Midlands, UK. Experiential and relational, these are small group training days which bring a completely different dimension to online training.
Join us
Come and train with us, at whichever depth suits you now. You can change your mind, and you can change your tier.
Eligibility requirements and terms and conditions apply.
Questions
Training a team? Groups and organisations are welcome, with bespoke pricing. Get in touch and we'll work it out with you.