Elizabeth De Thierry

Betsy is the author of The Trauma Recovery Handbook (2025) & 8 books in the Simple Guide series for Trauma Recovery.

‘Teaching the Child on the Trauma Continuum’ (2015) and ‘The Simple Guide to Child Trauma’ (2016), ‘The Simple Guide to Sensitive Boys’ (2017), ‘The Simple Guide to Shame in Children’ (2108) with ‘The Simple Guide to Attachment Difficulties’ (2019) and ‘The Simple Guide to Complex Trauma and Dissociation’ (2020) and ‘The Simple Guide to Collective Trauma’ (2021), ‘The Simple Guide to Emotional Neglect’ (2023).

- Director of Trauma Recovery Global which supports, trains and collaborates with professionals who work with traumatised children and families across 34 nations. She has trained over 40,000 professionals; for government ministers, education staff, police, violent reduction departments, multi -agency groups and conferences for specialist trauma professionals. 

She is a consultant for several government led projects who are using the BdT Trauma Recovery Focused Model (TRFM), which involves training 100’s of staff and meeting with policy makers, including such roles as sitting on the Delivering The Vision Board alongside leading practitioners in Scotland.

- Pioneered the Certificate in Therapeutic Mentoring (a 10 day course over 6 months in Bath, Oxford and online) which provides training for professionals.

- Betsy is the Founder and Chair of the Trustees of the Trauma Recovery Centre (TRC), which is a charity that operates specialised trauma therapy centres, offering play, art, music and psychotherapy alongside group support for the parents who joiun her course ‘Parenting the traumatised child’.

- Therapeutic Mentoring Rooms for Schools in the UK

- Betsy founded the national organisation The Childhood Trauma Recovery Network (CTRN)

Betsy is available for senior leaders for short term work only. 

Betsy runs sessions through the framework for TRFM® training which can be found on www.traumarecoveryglobal.com/training