MEET YOUR TRAINER: LOU LEBENTZ

Award-winning trauma therapist. International speaker. Creator of The Voyage®.

Lou Lebentz is a UKCP-registered trauma therapist with over 20 years of frontline experience in clinical mental health, addiction treatment, and trauma recovery. She has trained hundreds of professionals across the UK, Europe, and India, and her groundbreaking Voyage framework is revolutionising how trauma is understood and treated worldwide.

Why Lou Created The Voyage®: After two decades in therapy rooms, rehabs, and crisis settings, Lou witnessed the same pattern repeatedly: traditional mental health models were pathologising trauma survivors rather than understanding them. Clients were being diagnosed, medicated, and managed, but not truly seen or healed.

The Breakthrough Moment:

“I realised that what we call 'resistance' is actually protection. That trauma doesn't just live in symptoms, it lives in patterns, protectors, nervous systems, and unspoken beliefs. And if we want to reach those places, we need a completely different map.”

What Makes Lou's Approach Revolutionary:

• Lived Experience Meets Clinical Expertise – Lou's own healing journey from trauma informs her teaching, creating training that's both professionally rigorous and deeply human.
• Beyond Symptom Management – The Voyage® treats trauma as a nervous system injury, not a mental health disorder.
• Practical Integration – Every concept is immediately applicable in real therapy rooms with real clients.
• Global Impact – Used successfully in private practices, rehabs and coaching companies worldwide.

Lou's Bigger Vision: The Voyage® and it’s trainings aren't just a therapeutic model - The Voyage is a movement toward a trauma-informed world. Lou believes that understanding trauma is essential not just for therapists, but for every sector of society.

“We don't need more diagnoses. We need more understanding. More compassion. More safety. That's how we heal - as individuals and as a society.”

THE UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTH ABOUT TRAUMA TRAINING

Your Training Taught You About Trauma. But Not How to BE With Trauma.

The Reality Check:

✓ You can recite the symptoms of PTSD, but freeze when a highly dissociative client shows up

✓ You have evidence-based modalities, but they bounce off the protective parts that sabotage healing

✓ You were taught to manage risk, but you're losing your passion for the work

✓ You feel competent with "straightforward" depression, but complex trauma leaves you feeling out of your depth

✓ You're carrying more emotional weight than you know how to process

The Training Gap: Most clinical training programs allocate only 10 hours of training on trauma across their entire curriculum. You graduate or finish qualified to practice, but unprepared for the reality that 80% of mental health presentations have trauma at the root.

The Cost:

• Therapists are burning out within 5 years
• Clients are dropping out because they don't feel understood
• Protective parts are getting triggered instead of engaged
• Secondary trauma that nobody taught you to prevent

TAPT Clinical fills this gap — without spiritual bypassing, without overwhelming theory, without leaving you to figure it out alone.

WHO THIS TRAINING IS FOR

Qualified Mental Health Professionals Ready to Level Up:

• Therapists and counsellors (BACP, UKCP, HCPC registered)
• Trauma-informed coaches with clinical backgrounds
• Clinical psychologists and psychiatrists
• Mental health practitioners in the NHS and private practice
• Addiction specialists and forensic practitioners
• Clinical supervisors and trainers

Prerequisites (Non-Negotiable):

• Professional clinical qualification and current registration
• Active clinical supervision arrangements
• Professional indemnity insurance
• Current caseload working with trauma presentations

This Training is NOT For:

• Those seeking personal therapy (this is professional development)
• Anyone looking for quick fixes or simplistic approaches

NOT A CLINICIAN?

We’re developing TAPT Non-Clinical for:

• Police and emergency services
• Victim support and crisis workers
• Housing and social care professionals
• Legal professionals and court staff
• Immigration and refugee services
• Education professionals and youth workers
• Prison Officers, Probation staff
• Teachers, School Aides, Support staff 
• Mental Health First Aiders and customer-facing roles

Coming Soon