Practice & Integration
Stories Matter
These testimonials bring together feedback from men, women and young people I’ve worked with in community settings. Practitioners share how a trauma-informed, abuse-aware approach has strengthened their confidence, sharpened their practice and created safer spaces for the people they support.
“Lynn has had a significant impact on my personal growth and development. Through her abuse and trauma awareness work, training programmes and guidance, she helped me better understand not only the experiences I had been through, but also the importance of accountability, emotional awareness and recovery. The work Lynn has created continues to help people understand abuse, trauma, relationships and healing in a way that is accessible and impactful.”
Former participant and Community Interest Company Director
"The Dynamics of Abuse course provided me with the language to describe what I was seeing in my community work. It's the most impactful CPD I've done in a decade. Accessible, structured, and profoundly insightful."
Community Outreach Facilitator
"Finally, a training program that understands the nuances of coercive control through a non-gendered lens. It's practical, rigorous, and deeply empathetic. Every practitioner working in safeguarding should attend."
Social Worker, Glasgow
"I appreciated the self-paced online format. It allowed me to sit with the material and reflect properly. The expertise shared is clearly rooted in long-term frontline experience."
Participant, Self-Paced Course
Commissioner Insights
Family Support Services Manager
“Lynn’s approach to trauma-informed training is unparalleled. She has a unique ability to bridge the gap between academic theory and frontline reality. Our team now feels better equipped to recognise subtle layers of coercive control that previously went unseen. This training has fundamentally shifted our safeguarding protocols for the better.”
NHS Foundation Trust
Glasgow Homeless Charity - Men's Residential Service
Do you feel this type of work (abuse/trauma recovery) is essential in tackling the root causes of homelessness, addiction, and mental health?
Yes definitely, I think the people who experienced either homelessness, addiction and mental health are not given the opportunity to address these issues and gain a deeper understanding of them. Having this opportunity is a vital way of tackling these social issues as lot of these have been impacted by some form of trauma and when people do not have an understanding it will be hard to address the other issues going on.
Staff menber
“In these short practitioner reflections, you’ll hear how the training has supported participant safety, confidence and long-term recovery.”
Practitioner Testimonial
Nev, a community wellbeing facilitator, worked directly with participants who took part and completed course work at Men Matter Scotland.
Through this program, men developed a deeper understanding of abuse from a victim and perpetrator perspective. Nev witnesses significant changes in participants then and now as they learn to continue to navigate new found ways of behaving towards themselves and others!
Practitioner Testimonial
Adele, founder of Rise Up Glasgow, trained in abuse awareness and trauma recovery with Lynn. She now supports individuals in her community through dance, movement, recovery and mindfulness, using a trauma-informed approach within her charity.