Betsy de Thierry
Psychotherapist, teacher, trainer, CEO of BDT Training and Leadership consultancy and CTM Rooms
Betsy is a highly specialised trauma psychotherapist and a qualified primary school teacher who has founded several charities that work directly with troubled families. She is a trauma specialist who is highly sought after to train and consult for teachers, therapists, psychologists, pediatricians, social workers, parenting support workers and the police.
Betsy has authored many books on trauma including ‘Teaching the Child on the Trauma Continuum’ (2015) and ‘The Simple Guide to Child Trauma’ (2016) which is often a best seller on Amazon and ‘The Simple Guide to Sensitive Boys’ (2017), ‘The Simple guide to Shame in Children’ (2108) with ‘The Simple Guide to Attachment Difficulties’ (2019), ‘The Simple guide to Complex Trauma and Dissociation’ (2020), ‘The Simple Guide to Emotional Neglect’ (2023) and ‘The Trauma Recovery Handbook: A Model for Navigating Recovery for Professionals, Parents and Carers’ (2025).
Betsy started Trauma Recovery UK (www.traumarecoveryuk.org). Trauma Recovery UK has specialist Trauma Recovery Centres across the UK. The charity operates therapy centres offering highly specialised trauma recovery work.
She is the Director of Trauma Recovery Global (www.traumarecoveryglobal.com) which supports, trains and collaborates with professionals who work with traumatized children and families. Over the past 10 years, 40,000 professionals have enrolled in her training across 34 nations.
The popularity of the training days then led to her pioneer a Therapeutic Mentoring Certificate (a 10 day course now online) which has trained over 200 professionals to work to help children recover from trauma. The professionals include teachers, Heads, pediatricians, educational psychologists, art therapists, health visitors, social workers, police , TA’s etc. The course has led to the development of Therapeutic Mentoring Rooms in schools which enable traumatised children to recover within the mainstream school setting with the support of a trauma trained psychotherapist.
Betsy is a consultant and contributor who writes for many different organisations and projects.
Young Minds.https://youngminds.org.uk/media/2142/ym-addressing-adversity-book-web.pdf
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