Knightlamp is Australia's leading consultancy in trauma informed practice, located in Croydon Victoria and Richmond NSW and working throughout Australia. We use our expertise on the impact of child trauma on a person's experience and presentation in order to effect healing, change and an improved life trajectory.
To this end, Knightlamp provides a range of services that includes organisational consultancy, training and direct interventions for children, young people and adults.
The Knightlamp Approach ®
In recent years, Trauma Informed Practice has become a somewhat nebulous term, leading to levels of cynicism about what it entails and its effectiveness in foster care, residential care, schools, and other environments involved in children and young people living with developmental trauma. However, when understood and applied properly, a trauma informed therapeutic care approach has been consistently shown to lead to remarkable and measurable therapeutic outcomes (see DHS 2011).
Excellent trauma informed practice begins with your choice of training, and training provider. The Knightlamp Approach ® Seminar Series is Australia's most popular and effective training in Trauma Informed Practice for a number of reasons:
- Our training has been developed using the updated knowledge from the fields of neurobiology, attachment and psychodynamic theory.
- Our facilitators have decades of experience in trauma informed practice so that participants can feel confident that all questions will be answered.
- We walk the talk. We use the concepts and strategies discussed in training, in our work every day.
- Training is free of academic jargon. We ensure a comprehensive understanding, without making it complicated.
- Learners leave each course, workshop or seminar feeling enthusiastic and hopeful about their learned knowledge.
Stephan Friedrich
Stephan Friedrich is currently CEO and Principal Consultant at Knightlamp Psychology and Consulting, Australia’s leading Trauma Informed Practice consultancy. Knightlamp offers direct interventions, tailored models of therapeutic care, training and consultancy for organisations, schools and the out-of-home Care sector.
In these webinars Stephan draws on the work of prominent theorists and research, as well as his own experience working directly with children, young people and families in a 35 year career that began as a therapeutic drama program facilitator at Pentridge Prison, and Kew Cottages Disability Services in the early 1990's. He has worked as a youth worker and clinician in a variety of settings for high-risk youth, and as a manager with Youth Justice Custodial Services, Hurstbridge Farm, and municipal youth services and as a trauma-specific clinician for a number of organisations throughout Australia.
Stephan has presented at a number of conferences, he is known for his unique anecdotal style of delivery of training, Australia, award-winning blog and podcast ‘The Knightlamp Podcast’. He is the author of ‘How to Tuck a Gangster into Bed and other short stories’, a book on anecdotes of trauma informed practice with children and young people in care.
