Trauma Informed Conversations
Hosted by the team behind Trauma Informed Consultancy Services, led by Jessica Parker, Director at TICS. This podcast explores how trauma-informed principles can transform the way we live, work, lead, and support others. Each episode dives into real-world conversations with experts, educators, and practitioners who are driving positive change through compassion, understanding, and awareness.
Whether you’re a leader, educator, clinician, or simply someone who wants to build safer and more supportive environments, Trauma Informed Conversations offers practical insights, reflective dialogue, and inspiring stories to help you embed trauma-informed approaches in every aspect of life and work.
Join us as we create space for empathy, learning, and meaningful connection — one conversation at a time.
Episodes
14 episodes
Care-Experienced People (Mini-Series) - Episode 7: Parenting Without a Blueprint: Care Experience, Trauma, and Building a Village
What happens when you have to parent without a map? In this deeply moving and relational conversation, we sit down with care-experienced mum, kinship carer, and Churchill Fellow Terri-Anne Harmer to explore the complexities of rai...
Self-Efficacy, Systemic Shifts, and the Real Lives of Teachers
Episode Description In this episode of Trauma Informed Conversations, host Jessica Parker welcomes teacher, coach, and author
Validation, Accessibility, and Medical Trauma
Episode Overview In this episode of Trauma Informed Conversations, host Jessica Parker is joined by integrative therapist
Care-Experienced People (Mini-Series) - Episode 6: Aging, Healing, and the Lifelong Impact of the Care System with Dr. Rosie Canning
What happens to care-experienced people as they grow older? In this deeply moving and trauma-informed conversation, we sit down with researcher and storyteller Dr. Rosie Canning to explore the long-term health and wellbeing outcom...
Connection, Community, and Eating Disorders
In this episode of Trauma Informed Conversations, host Jessica Parker is joined by TICS Associate Gemma, an expert with over 30 years of experience in the NHS eating disorder field. Recorded in person on a rare sunny day in Yorkshire, the pair ...
Care-Experienced People (Mini-Series) - Episode 5: The Lived Experience of Kinship Care
In this episode, we delve into the often-overlooked nuances of kinship care through the lens of lived experience. While kinship care—being raised by family members or close friends rather than in the general foster care system—is frequen...
The Quiet Weight: Trauma in the Everyday and the Unseen
Trauma exposure is often associated with blue-light services or clinical roles, but the reality of emotional labour is far wider. In this episode of Trauma Informed Conversations, host Jessica Parker sits down with mental health and su...
Care-Experienced People (Mini-Series) - Episode 4: Adoption Beyond the Happy Ending: Trauma and the Stories that Shape Us
Adoption is frequently presented as an endpoint: a “happy ending,” a rescue, a solution. For many adoptees, the story does not end with placement. It continues across the life course, shaped by identity, belonging, nervous system responses, los...
Care-Experienced People (Mini-Series) - Episode 3: Sibling Kinship Care – Holding Families Together with Dr Lorna Stabler
Sibling kinship care is far more common than most people realise, yet it remains one of the least understood forms of care. In this powerful episode of Trauma Informed Conversations, part of the Care-Experienced People mini-series, hos...
Trauma-Informed Research and the Hidden Burden on Care Leavers
In this episode of Trauma Informed Conversations, Jessica Parker, Director at Trauma Informed Consultancy Services (TICS), speaks with
Care-Experienced People (Mini-Series) - Episode 2: Trauma-Informed Storytelling & Keeping Lived Experience at the Centre with Sophia Alexandra Hall
In this episode of Trauma Informed Conversations, Carrie speaks with journalist, Churchill Fellow and TEDx speaker Sophia Alexandra Hall about what it means to tell stories with care-experienced people rather than about them.Drawing on h...
Trauma-Informed Research: Bridging Data, Lived Experience & Co-Production
What happens when research is designed and carried out with people it's about, and not just on them? Carrie Wilson is joined by Dr Nikki Luke from the Rees Centre, University of Oxford, to explore practical ways to blend admin data, mixed metho...
Care-Experienced People (Mini-Series) - Episode 1: The Trauma of the Care System - Healing Within Traumatised Institutions
About the SeriesThe Care-Experienced People Mini-Series is part of Trauma-Informed Conversations - a podcast created by Trauma-Informed Consultancy Services (TICS) to explore what it really means to build systems and relationship...
From Conference to Conversation: The Story Behind Trauma Informed Conversations
In this opening episode, Jessica Parker — Director of Trauma Informed Consultancy Services (TICS) is joined by her colleague Carrie Wilson to share the story behind the new podcast and the TICS model of practice.Following the energy and...