Supervision, training and consultancy

About Bend

Bend Consulting is a bespoke service that tailors supervision, training and consultancy packages to meet the specific needs of your organisation.  We specialise in working with organisations who work with populations who have experienced complex trauma. These organisations include mental health services, out of home care, homelessness services, family violence services, emergency response services, psychology practices, schools and early learning centres.  Our aim is to provide high quality evidence-based interventions that assist individuals and organisations to respond to their clients in a trauma-informed way, and to educate and buffer against the impact of vicarious trauma.

Being "trauma-informed" means understanding that the people we are working with require a response that is attuned to their unique needs and offers some kind of healing experience.  Whether this is in our work with individuals, families, groups, systems or organisations, working with trauma will challenge our own personal levels of integration.  Trauma creates rigidity - and may activate our personal and organisational defenses to protect ourselves, which in turn impacts our effectiveness. In order to empower clients and teams to be more effective, it is crucial to allow time to stop and reflect on the impact of the work. Building resilience with clients, workers and teams through the application of practical strategies grounded in research is at the core of what we do.