Trauma-Informed Care Pathways & Practice Support
Designed for counsellors, social workers, youth practitioners, case managers, survivor-care teams, NGOs, and organisations supporting exploited children, young people, and adults.
Trauma-informed aftercare requires skill, steadiness, and sustainable support. Practitioners are often navigating layered trauma, attachment disruption, coercive control dynamics, dissociation, and emotional fatigue — while working within limited systems and under pressure to provide safe, effective care.
This page offers structured, trauma-informed resources and professional support for both individual practitioners and organisations working in survivor-care contexts.
A Practical Field Guide for Survivor-Care Professionals
A structured, stabilisation-first framework designed for practitioners supporting survivors of exploitation and complex relational trauma.
This resource offers:
a stabilisation-first care pathway (Stabilisation → Processing → Integration)
structured session scaffolding that reduces chaos and increases containment
guidance for working with dissociation, shame, attachment disruption, and behavioural survival responses
creative resourcing tools that support nervous system regulation and narrative repair — without emotional flooding
power-aware practices that prioritise survivor agency and dignity
adaptable tools for both individual counselling and team-based programs
Grounded in survivor-centred, trauma-informed practice.
📘 Available soon on Amazon.
Interactive, trauma-informed training designed for:
counsellors and therapists
social workers and case managers
youth workers and school wellbeing staff
NGO teams and program facilitators
aftercare managers and leadership teams
volunteers in survivor-support roles
Workshops focus on:
stabilisation-first care
practical care pathway planning
integrating creativity safely into trauma work
avoiding re-traumatisation
strengthening practitioner confidence and sustainability
working ethically within power-sensitive contexts
Available online and in-person (by arrangement).
The aim is not to replace existing clinical models, but to offer practical scaffolding that strengthens day-to-day aftercare work and supports ethical, survivor-centred practice.
Qualified Counsellor | Trauma-Informed Practitioner
Amanda Butel is a qualified counsellor and therapeutic art practitioner specialising in trauma-informed recovery for women and young people impacted by exploitation, abuse, betrayal, and burnout.
With a background spanning counselling leadership, chaplaincy, cross-cultural service, and survivor support, she brings both clinical insight and grounded compassion to her work.
Amanda’s practice integrates strengths-based Narrative Therapy alongside elements of CBT, ACT, and creative therapeutic approaches. She supports clients to rebuild safety, restore identity, and move toward meaningful recovery.
She has facilitated hundreds of hours of therapeutic group sessions with survivors of exploitation, disengaged adolescents, and helping professionals, and has developed trauma-informed resources used across counselling, aftercare, and school-based settings.
Alongside her private practice in Australia, Amanda collaborates with survivor-care organisations and frontline practitioners, contributing to program development, professional resources, and structured care pathways.
Her work emphasises stabilisation, nervous system regulation, narrative repair, and practical therapeutic interventions that support long-term healing and reintegration.
Drawing on lived cross-cultural experience and years of service within high-demand care environments, Amanda is passionate about equipping counsellors and survivor-care professionals with tools that are ethical, compassionate, and sustainable.
Her approach centres dignity, safety, and hope — supporting survivors toward recovery and helping professionals work with confidence, steadiness, and care.
If you have any questions, please contact Amanda:
Trauma-informed counselling, professional resources, and practice support for survivor-care professionals in Australia and internationally.