Dr. Julia A. Andre
Registered Clinical Psychologist and Supervisor, Trauma Consultant; Co-founder, Trauma Directory
Sitara Samtani
Registered Psychotherapist, Co-founder, Trauma Directory
Beyond the Buzzword: What Being Trauma-Informed Actually Requires
Trauma-informed” has become one of the most used, and least defined, phrases in mental health and workplace wellness. Nearly every organisation claims the label, but few can say what it actually requires in practice. This workshop moves past the language to the substance: what trauma-informed care and trauma-informed workplaces actually look like day to day, and what it takes to close that gap.
What You’ll Learn:
- Why “trauma-informed” so often stays at the level of language, and what separates the label from the practice
- The core principles behind trauma-focused care (safety, trust, choice, collaboration, and empowerment) and how they translate into concrete behaviour
- How to recognise well-intentioned practices that unintentionally retraumatise clients or employees, and what to do instead
- Practical steps for building trauma-informed habits into your own work or organisation, beyond a one-time training
- Truly understanding treatment modalities, levels, and trainings or certifications can also be very helpful. Or even understanding with regard to trauma modalities and the tier system, and also which modality might be a good fit, e.g., what does EMDR trained or EMDR accredited mean, and which therapist shall I pick?
Meet Dr. Julia A. Andre
Julia provides clinical supervision and consultation for practitioners working with Complex PTSD, dissociative disorders, and omission trauma, taking a strongly experiential approach that combines schema therapy, EMDR, and somatic work. Her focus spans developmental and attachment trauma, dissociative presentations including dissociative identity disorder, depersonalisation, derealisation and structural dissociation, relational and intergenerational trauma, and the more invisible forms of harm rooted in emotional neglect and chronic misattunement rather than a single identifiable event. Drawing on a decade and 8,000+ hours of direct clinical practice across Europe and Asia, she supports supervisees in building thepacing, structure, and nervous-system-informed judgement this work requires.She is the founder of Undertrained.org, an initiative to build complex trauma and dissociation competence, book author of “Nothing Happened” and “Emotional Needs”, and consults on the Integrative Trauma Programme worldwide.
Meet Sitara Samtani
Sitara is a dedicated child counsellor at The Other Clinic, Singapore and specialises in supporting children and families through emotional, behavioural, and developmental challenges. She has worked as a clinician and school counsellor in international schools in Hong Kong and Singapore, where she supported students’ emotional well-being and collaborated closely with parents, educators, and multidisciplinary teams. She has also worked as a school behaviour practitioner, helping children with diverse.Sitara supports a wide range of needs, including anxiety, neurodivergence (such as ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorder), attachment, emotion regulation, anger, and complex trauma. She tailors therapy to the unique needs of each child and family system and has experience working with children of varied abilities. Her therapeutic approach is holistic, personalised,developmentally appropriate, and play-based. She works with empathy, curiosity and care, drawing from Schema Therapy for Children and Adolescents and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), including specialised training in parent-child attachment EMDR. She also incorporates Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Sandplay, and Symbol Work into her practice.She is the co-author of Emotional Needs, a children’s picture book rooted in Schema Therapy principles, and is passionate about using story as a therapeutic metaphor to support emotional insight and growth.