Sense of Safety for Practitioners Foundation Course

This course introduces you to the rationale, history, and research behind the Sense of Safety Approach, grounded in clinical experience and transdisciplinary evidence.

The Sense of Safety for Practitioners Foundation Course provides an in-depth look at how to integrate whole-person, trauma-informed care into your practice, using insights and approaches that enhance both practitioner and client safety. By adopting these strategies, you can improve your own sense of wellbeing while fostering a supportive environment for patients or clients. The course is practical and paced to ensure sustainable change without overwhelming your workload.

Who is this for?

This course is designed for professionals who provide care to people in our community including but not limited to health professionals, social workers, educators, mental health professionals, and public policy makers. It is ideal for anyone seeking to integrate trauma-informed, whole-person approaches into their practice to enhance both their own sense of safety and the safety of their clients or patients. The course supports practitioners in building sustainable, effective, and compassionate care strategies.

You will learn:

• Applying the concepts of the Sense of Safety Approach in practice, emphasising practitioner wellbeing and client care.
• Identifying stressors affecting practitioners and their sense of safety.
• Evidence-based techniques for managing stress and enhancing safety when providing care.
• Applying the seven Whole Person Domains of trauma-informed care.
• The link between relationships, lifelong health, and the importance of safety.

Who developed this session?

This course has been developed by Dr. Johanna Lynch and powered by Better Health Company.

Dr Johanna Lynch MBBS PhD FRACGP FASPM Grad Cert (Grief and Loss) is a Senior Lecturer at the The University of Queensland and President of the Australian Society for Psychological Medicine. She spent the last 15 years of her 25-year GP career caring for adults who are survivors of childhood trauma and neglect. This practical clinical work of being with those in our community who are often marginalised, misunderstood, and categorised with multiple mental health diagnoses has led her to search for approaches to the whole person that are applicable across disciplines. As a clinician and a researcher, she has pioneered approaches that actively work against the fragmentation caused by trauma and neglect. She consults to the Local Link Collaborative connecting Brisbane South’s domestic and family violence services to primary care. She teaches and mentors multidisciplinary mental health clinicians and advocates for whole person approaches to distress in public policy. Her doctoral research on this subject is now a book: A whole person approach to wellbeing: Building Sense of Safety (2021) Routledge: London.