- FOUNDER:
Louise Moultrie has brought together her expertise with over two decades of working with survivors of Sexual violence and Domestic Abuse. She incorporated her own insights and experience to overcoming trauma to educates and inspire others. Lou has worked using a Trauma Informed approach to promote her clients healing and create a healthy space for them to grow, enabling selfcare and self-regulation. Lou trained as a psychodynamic therapist for 4 years and went onto use her skills to support female victims of sexual violence and child abuse. She trained as a specialist Independent Sexual Violence Advocate- ISVA and after a period she went on to train and work in women’s safe houses (Refuge) as a women’s safety officer. This involved safeguarding and supporting high risk families. She eventually set up her own specialist service, Freedom Together which worked with clients and communities from across the 12 south London Boroughs. It was after the global COVID-19 pandemic Lou decided to adapt her work and went online offering group support and telephone trauma support sessions to many who felt unsafe and unable to reach services.
After 25 years of dedicating her career to survivors of abuse delivering training, community projects, early intervention, young people’s programmes and psychoeducational programmes for women and girls impacted by violence and abuse. She decided to transition her work to online. Rather than offering solutions to complex issues Lou took an approach that she witnesses work for her own clients, their families and herself. She retrained as a therapist in a Neuro-experiential practice- Brainspotting. A therapy that is highly effective in treating historical and deep routed trauma that talking therapies are sometimes less equipped to reach. She felt that some trauma is so severely disconnected there are often no words to verbalise and release it. Brainspotting facilitates the body and brains integration of memories enabling healing to safely take place. Lou has been practicing since she qualified and has witnessed great changes for her clients.
‘I am so happy to have found something so profound as a key resource to healing trauma and I feel blessed to be able to facilitate this change as part of others recovery’.
When seeking support at any point in our recovery it is often a huge step forward and can be a scary place to enter. This journey of healing takes great ‘courage’– some of us will feel that courage does not describe them, and that is important to acknowledge this is normal to feel this way.
Be Kind to yourself
Courage
The ability to do something that frightens one; bravery.
“she called on all her courage to face the ordeal”
Courage (also called bravery or valor) is the choice and willingness to confront agony, pain, danger, uncertainty, or intimidation. Valor is courage or bravery, especially in battle. Physical courage is bravery in the face of physical pain, hardship, even death, or threat of death; …
I will leave you with the meaning of courage to ponder when nearing the end of your recovery journey.
Freedom 2 Talk- Women’s chat room Podcast was born,
Lou is hoping to build up conversations around uncomfortable topics effecting all areas of society.
She feels there is power in people speaking and a great deal to learn about everyday people, how we feel, cope live and laugh!!!
She wants to talk about hard topics but also just chat openly about how great humans can be.
Lou published her book June 2021; We Have A Voice.
It is free on Kindle subscription and copies are also available on e-books and to purchase on Amazon.
Trigger warning as ‘We Have A Voice’ covers her own story on relationships, child/ adult trauma, sexual abuse and domestic abuse from family members. dissociation, addiction, mental health, recovery and healing. Lou felt it important to write her story so anyone could read and relate without needing a psychology degree or dictionary!
“We Have A Voice” is a genuinely inspiring personal testimony of enduring and surviving domestic abuse, written by an extraordinary woman…
Qualifications, Training & Experiences
- Neuro-experiential Brainspotting Therapy phase 1 & 2. Dr David Grand- Brainspotting Training Institute (BTI)
- Working with Trauma Memories
- Trauma Triggers and Flashbacks
- Multiple Safeguarding Training / Safeguarding Adults and Children level 3 & 4
- Delivering Psychoeducational projects/ Trauma informed support for CPTSD, Community DASV awareness projects
- Trauma and the body
- Shame and Blame
- Reversing Adversity
- Counter Terrorism
- Co-facilitating/Rape Crisis- Young Peoples Consent & Gender workshops
- Against Violence and Abuse
- Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder
- Terrorism & Radicalisation
- Domestic Abuse – Teenage pregnancy
- Human Trafficking
- PCT Public Health Training
- Child Protection
- NHS- Mental Health- How to work affectively
- Freedom Programme Facilitator
- Danger Assessment & Strangulation
- Refuge/ Women’s Aid- Women’s Safety Officer Training
- IDT- Effective Managerial Supervision Skills
- ISVA- Independent Sexual Violence Advocate
- SARC- Sexual Assault Referral Centre’s Training
- Personality Disorders
- Victim support training- Helpline- telephone support
- Sexual Violence and the Criminal Justice System
- Psychodynamic Counselling Diploma
- Advanced Counselling skills and theory
- RASASC Modules -Effects of Rape- Childhood Sexual Abuse- Flashbacks- Self harm- Anger
- RASASC Modules- PTSD- Eating Disorders- Ritual Abuse- Male Rape
- GUM & Haven Medical Centre’s- Sapphire Unit
- NHS- Containment & Boundaries
- Supporting Families’ children under 5yrs
- CYPP- Mentoring Young Offenders/ young adults leaving care system