External training, IACP CPD approved.
Frontline Workers Supporting Families Through Grief, Loss, and Trauma
Anam Cara Parental and Sibling Bereavement Support are excited to announce the return of our workshop to help professionals build a foundation of grief awareness and traumatic loss.
Anam Cara have been supporting parents whose children have died for over a decade across the island. Our supports include in-person and online peer-to-peer support meetings, informational events, and family remembrance events. These are available to all parents who have experienced the death of a child, regardless of the age of their child, circumstances of their death, or time since bereavement.
This workshop is for all frontline professionals who encounter bereaved families in their line of work.
We are delighted to welcome Brid Carroll and David Trickey as out guest speakers for the day.
Originally from a teaching background, Brid Carroll is a qualified Psychotherapist and Supervisor with a special interest in bereavement and loss. Brid holds a Degree in Counselling Psychotherapy from Middlesex University and a Masters in Bereavement Studies from RCSI Dublin and a Postgraduate Certificate in Childhood Bereavement from St. Christopher’s Hospice London. She holds a Certificate in the Sacred Art of Living and Dying. She is presently working as a Bereavement Educator and Researcher helping with bereavement service evaluation, training and information development with various bereavement support organisations. Brid is currently the Chair of the Advisory Committee of the Irish Childhood Bereavement Network and a member of the Steering Committee of the Family Bereavement Network of Europe. She provides training, information talks and online webinars on grief and loss for professionals and bereaved parents throughout Ireland.
David Trickey is a leading Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Co-Director of the UK Trauma Council. He has specialised in working with traumatised children, young people, and their families since 2000, particularly following domestic abuse and family homicide. He continues to focus on direct clinical work, as well as the training, supervision and support of others and is the clinical team lead for a specialist service for Children in Care. He presents at conferences and supervises research. He is chartered by the British Psychological Society and registered with the Health and Care Professions Council. He was a member of the committee responsible for the 2018 revision of the NICE Guidelines for PTSD. In all of his roles he draws heavily on the research literature to which he has made a modest contribution.
Learning Outcomes:
- Enhance your skills in supporting bereaved families & understand the impact of child loss
- Increase your awareness of the difficulties that bereaved families may face
- Examine how you can support bereaved families & what interventions might be used
- Understand the purpose of interventions & explore complex responses & reactions
- Explore frameworks for supporting families through trauma & traumatic events.
- Identify interventions that can be used with traumatic loss
Booking information:
This training will be delivered online on both the 13th October and the 10th November 2026 from 9:30am-4:30pm.
💶 Cost: €20
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