The 'Our Tricky Brain' Psychoeducation Kit
Exclusively by Dr Marianne Trent
I specialise in working with adults who experienced challenging or traumatic childhoods to help them make sense of the way they feel and to restore hope for the future.
It was whilst doing this work that I discovered compassion-focused therapy. As soon as I learned the theory I imagined the 'Our Tricky Brain' kit! I took steps to design it, create it and launch it and the rest is history! I am passionate about easing distress in others and I love that the 'Our Tricky Brain' kit allows me to bring trauma-informed approaches and good practice to a wider audience.
The 'Our Tricky Brain' Kit & online training course
Start helping inform this critical, trauma-informed, compassion-focused theory into the lives of the people you work with.
You can help them move beyond feeling:
Confused and overwhelmed:
Confusion and overwhelm are so common in trauma and depression. The 'Our Tricky Brain' kit is a fantastically useful tool to help increase validation and normalisation and to decrease shame and guilt. These are key factors for helping clients to make progress.
Fed up with the same, stuffy, dry content?
Trust Me, it's good! It's engaging and it's not like anything clients or staff teams have seen before. It engages and holds attention. You can also alter it exactly to the needs of the people you are presenting it to to get maximum results.
Who is this for?
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Psychologists, Counsellors & Therapists
Qualified and experienced therapists may already use the compassion-focused theory as a key part of their work. The 'Our Tricky Brain' kit is a great addition to any therapist's toolkit. It brings an incredibly useful, memorable and engaging focus to the work. The theory really comes to life and clients are able to put the theory into practice within their own lives.
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Community Mental Health Staff
Mental Health staff can add to their repertoire of skills to help their clients relieve some of the distress they experience and to gain new insight. The kit can be used in people's homes or during remote video sessions. It's also ideal for care planning work and multi-disciplinary formulation meetings as a way of enhancing understanding and implementing trauma-informed care. It increases empathy and contributes to better outcomes.
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Social Workers and Social Care Staff
Social workers and social care staff regularly work with adults, children, families and staff teams as a result of looked after children work, social care proceedings or physical health. Trauma and depression can be inherent in this work. Being able to use the 'Our Tricky Brain' kit with families or staff teams can aid understanding and increase empathy and contribute to better outcomes.
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Educational & Pastoral Professionals
The 'Our Tricky Brain' kit is ideal for working with children and young people as well as parents, carers and staff teams. The kit can lead to new insight and contribute to the development of holistic, bespoke interventions for children, young people and their families.
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Physical Health & Medical Professionals
Working in health means that pain, distress, trauma and depression are often in the picture. The 'Our Tricky Brain' kit can be used by physical therapists, surgical support teams, medical staff and more. It's really effective at helping people understand why trauma rocks people in the way it does.
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Justice & Custodial Workers
What the evidence tells us is that the justice system is full of people who experienced high incidences of Childhood Traumas. Many of these traumas are unresolved and in many cases not even acknowledged as significant by the person themselves. The 'Our Tricky Brain' kit allows for trauma-informed theory to be implemented in this vitally important population. It is also great for helping staff teams to understand the impact of trauma on people which can be invaluable in enhancing empathy and compassion.
Benefits
Ideal for in person & remote work
The 'Our Tricky Brain' kit is adaptable, it can be used when in the same room as your client(s) or via remote video sessions. Both get great results.
Full training
Each 'Our Tricky Brain' kit comes with one user account for the exclusive training video presented by Dr Marianne Trent. Let the expert guide and educate you on how to use the kit and how to get maximum results from it. See how the different aspects of the exercise are described and explained. Learning in this way will give you great confidence to be able to use it with your own clients. You'll also have the course to training to refer back to in future whenever you need it.
Convenient Format & Lightweight Design
The 'Our Tricky Brain' kit comes in a drawstring bag making it convenient to slip into your bag and keep with you. You never know when trauma and depression will crop up and the handy, portable size of the kit means it can be there at the right place and the right time.
Superb Value
For the one off cost of £90 you get the kit and access to the training video. This represents excellent value. The training video and online course is also available for purchase here.
Physical Kit Form Really Engages Clients
Trauma and depression can make it hard for people to engage with therapeutic work. Delivering the 'Our Tricky Brain' exercise with clients becomes an enjoyable, collaborative process which clients are able to focus on, remember, implement and therefore get benefits from.
Key Aspects
Delivered to your door:
The kit will be delivered to your chosen address. Delivery is available by direct, simple order through this site for the U.K., France, Spain, Italy, U.S.A & Australia. If you require a postage quote to a different country please get in touch and this can be arranged. orders are usually dispatched the same or the next available business day.
Online Course Platform:
The training video is hosted in an online course platform. You will have your own unique log in details and be able to work through the content in your own time. The log in details will be sent to you automatically.
Simply Explained and Wonderfully Effective:
I've got a 'Marianne knack' for explaining things which will help you understand the content AND have the confidence to be able to start trying out the strategies with the people you work with to get maximum results.
No further costs:
The £90 cost (& p&p) is all you will pay for the kit AND the course.
Confidence in the process:
In my work as a qualified Clinical Psychologist I have been working with people who experience trauma and associated depression and anxiety for years. I get results and I am so ready to help you and your clients take these steps to move towards to increase their self-understanding and their acceptance and to decrease the shame and guilt they experience. I've crafted this technique and the 'Our Tricky Brain' kit to work and to get results and be a pleasure to use for a variety of professionals and the clients, families and staff teams they work with
Your Kit Includes:
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3 'brain' pieces, 1 each of reptile, mammal and human.
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'Brain function pieces' for each of the 3 brain elements.
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1 printed fabric mat to layout the exercise on.
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1 drawstring fabric bag to keep everything together.
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1 safety and information leaflet.
Online Training Exercise
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1 user log on for the exclusive kit training video.
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Hosted on a user friendly, intuitive course hosting platform with a full helpdesk option.
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No limits for how long you can access the course for.
"The Tricky Brain Kit helps bring the Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) theory to life in a way that clients can really engage with & remember!"
"I found the tricky brain demo so beneficial, especially being able to visualise and see how the different parts go together. I learned a lot from it, I honestly didn’t know certain parts of our brain were in charge of so many different emotions.
It really helped me understand why I think like I do, and actually made me feel very “normal”.
"The ‘Our Tricky Brain’ kit is one of the go to tools that I use in my sessions when supporting clients who have experienced trauma.
I find that clients find it beneficial having a visual image & pieces they can recall easily at a later date."