It’s UK Charity Week this week, and we’re looking back on a fantastic couple of years for Trauma Treatment International (TTI) to mark the occasion.

Through two concerted Crowdfunder campaigns, TTI has raised more than £50,000 to provide trauma treatment to Afghan women who fled the Taliban, and help them forge new fulfilling lives in the UK and elsewhere.

Trauma Treatment International is delighted to launch its revamped website, made possible in part by funding from the National Lottery.

Burnout is a completely normal human reaction to feeling overwhelmed either in their work or personal life. It is usually characterised by emotional exhaustion, detachment and loss of motivation and feeling helpless or a sense of failure.

Trauma usually occurs when an individual experiences an overwhelming event, often involving unbearable danger and threat to life. Trauma can technically be defined as one of three things: physical injury to the body; a traumatic event; the effect of the traumatic event.

A team of Clinical Associates, Trustees and Staff from Trauma Treatment International has come together online for the first in a series of training sessions aimed at exploring the evidence-base of psychological trauma treatment.

More former hostages are now able to receive bespoke psychological treatment, following a new partnership between Trauma Treatment International (TTI) and Hostage International.

Trauma Treatment International is to provide psychological support to staff of investigative journalism site Bellingcat, helping them deal with their exposure to violent content.

When Zara Kay publicly expressed support for the same-sex marriage of a family friend, she had no idea of the huge impact her words would have on her life.

It’s now two years since the first national lockdown in the UK, when many of us started to work from home – perhaps for the first time in our lives. Here at TTI, we’ve been thinking about how we protect our mental health while WFH.

On International Women’s Day 2022, we at Trauma Treatment International pledge to #breakthebias. We hope you will too.

Alphonsine Kabagabo, who has joined our board of trustees, is a shining example of the power of resilience after extreme trauma. Find out more about her inspirational story.