Workshops & Training

Esther delivers emotive, engaging, trauma-informed workshops that combine lived experience with practical insight to challenge perspectives, encourage honest reflection and inspire meaningful change. Each session is tailored to your objectives and can accommodate groups of varying sizes, with 8–25 attendees recommended.
1. Lived Experience: A Trauma-Informed Perspective
2. Lived Experience: Insights Into Relationships – Biological Family
3. Lived Experience: Insights Into Relationships – Caregivers
4. Bespoke Workshops
Workshops can be delivered as stand alone sessions or packaged together as required. 
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What to expect from my workshops


The insights and knowledge I share in sessions are based on my unique experiences. The way I deliver content offers a fresh perspective on the things that may or may not be working within the Care and Mental Health System. The things I talk about will encourage professionals to look at their current ways of thinking and working. I’m extremely passionate about seeing the ‘system’ become a safer place for both children and vulnerable adults. I have key insights into mental health and trauma and I aim to inform, inspire & impact.

1. Lived Experience: A Trauma-Informed Perspective

Authentic stories from my time in the care system, including behaviours shaped by trauma and examples of responses I experienced as helpful and unhelpful. The session includes a case-study exercise based on my experiences, with opportunities for discussion and real-time reflection.

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2. Lived Experience: Insights Into Relationships - Biological Family

An intimate and reflective session exploring relationships with biological family. Using real photos and video footage from my childhood, alongside interactive discussion, the workshop explores sibling dynamics, my relationship with my mum, and the importance of positive engagement with birth families.

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3. Lived Experience: Insights Into Relationships - Caregivers

A candid exploration of attachment and the role caregivers play in the lives of looked-after children. Drawing on my experiences with foster carers, children’s home staff, boarding school staff and supported lodgings providers, I share honest reflections on 'the good, the bad and the ugly'.

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4. Bespoke Workshops

A tailored workshop shaped around the needs of your organisation, drawing on lived experience and insights to focus on the areas most relevant to you. I can cover any of the topics below in your bespoke workshop.

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Topics & Experience

These areas can be explored through keynote talks, workshops, training sessions and bespoke programmes tailored to the needs of each audience.

1. The Care System (13mths – 18yrs) 

2. Social Services Involvement

3. Care Leaver Support Services

4. Youth Offending Services (Criminalisation)

5. Supported Lodgings/Supported Accommodation

6. Co-dependent Relationships/Attachment

7. Personality Disorder/Dissociative Disorder/Dissociation

8. PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) and Flashbacks

9. Experiences of Trauma

10. Depression and Anxiety

11. Self-harm and Suicidal Ideation/Suicide Attempts

12. Eating Disorder (Specifically Bulimia Nervosa)

13. CSE (Child Sexual Exploitation)

14. Incapacitated Rape 

15. Physical, Emotional and Sexual Abuse

16. Having a Mentally Unwell Parent

17. Death of Biological Parents (as a young adult) – Bereavement/Loss 

18. Alcohol Misuse and Alcohol Support Services (Youth and Adult) 

19. Faith, Church and Christianity

20. Healing and Recovery

21. Therapeutic Interventions (Anti-depressants, Inner Child Work, Schema-Focussed Therapy, Group Therapy, CBT, DBT, 1-1 Counselling, Residential Accommodation) 

22. Child and Adult Mental Health Services (Camhs, Community Mental Health Team, Psychiatric Hospital)

I am a certified trauma-informed coach. All of the sessions I provide will promote a trauma-informed approach in practice.
*Disclaimer* – I am not a trained therapist, so I cannot offer therapeutic services to clients.
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Client Testimonials

“I found Esther’s training highly engaging, I have attended limited sessions delivered from a lived-experience perspective, I found this approach particularly impactful. As a social worker, I felt the training was especially relevant—highlighting how the actions of professionals influenced her feelings and experiences.”
Social Worker - Trafford Local Authority
“ I thought Esther was great and it is so impactful to have someone speak from personal experience. I work in a special school, however I still found it extremely relevant as the main message was 'behaviour is communication' and we need to look beneath the behaviour to find the underlying issue.”
Attendee at Esther's VAWG Training, 2026

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