About TTI UK
The Trauma Training Institute (TTI) UK provides clinical and professional trainings in relational, embodied, and experiential approaches alongside ongoing professional support to psychotherapists, counsellors, mental health practitioners, and wellness professionals looking to deepen their understanding of how to work with developmental trauma.
We teach clinically sophisticated relational and somatic approaches, including the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM®), widely regarded as one of the most comprehensive and precise clinical models for working with developmental trauma.
Maya Vaughan
Director, Trauma Training Institute UK
Maya is a NARM® therapist and relationship coach whose work centres on complex trauma and attachment issues. As a NARM® Master Practitioner with extensive training in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), she integrates these approaches in her work with individuals and couples to support emotional safety, self-awareness, and authentic connection.
Maya's therapeutic practice is grounded in the belief that all human pain and reactivity make sense in context. She draws on both her professional expertise and her own relational healing journey to facilitate transformation and to support her clients in finding a deeper connection to themselves and others. Currently enrolled in the post-master's Level 4 NARM training focused on Love and Intimacy, she continues to deepen her practice in relational work.
Prior to her therapeutic work, Maya spent twenty years as a Communications Consultant in the NGO and sustainability sector. In establishing the Trauma Training Institute UK, Maya combines her expertise in trauma work and coaching with her communications background to contribute to the growing trauma-informed movement across the UK. As a practitioner deeply aligned with the NARM® model, one of her visions is to contribute to this movement by offering high-quality, in-person training in this comprehensive and profound model to clinicians and practitioners throughout the UK and beyond.
Jo Delacourt
Operations Manager, Trauma Training Institute UK
As the Operations Manager for Trauma Training Institute UK, Jo oversees the systems, structures, and learning environments that hold our courses together. Working closely with Maya and the teaching team, she manages the full operational journey from enquiries and applications through to live events, communications, and post-training support.
With a professional background spanning digital strategy, design, and ethical marketing, she brings a detail-oriented and relational approach to operations. She also has a longstanding background in wellness and mind–body practices. This blend of operational rigour and embodied awareness supports TTI UK’s commitment to offering trauma-informed approaches that are both structurally robust and considerate of the people within them.
Stephen Mason
Research Associate
Stephen Mason brings academic and clinical expertise to TTI UK's mission of advancing trauma-informed practice. He is currently completing a BPS and HCPC approved Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology at the University of Manchester. His doctoral training incorporates a pluralistic approach with particular focus on Humanistic and Cognitive Behavioural Therapies. He also holds an MSc in Psychological Studies from the University of Glasgow.
Stephen's doctoral research focuses on psychological safety within contemporary trauma-informed approaches, including models such as NARM®. He has experience working with both young people and adults impacted by trauma. His work reflects TTI UK's commitment to clinically relevant and ethically grounded training, informed by evidence-based practices.
Mission
Our mission at TTI UK is to enhance clinical practice by providing practitioners with relational, embodied, and experiential tools that clinically sophisticated and innovative trauma approaches offer (with a focus on attuned relationship, embodiment, agency and repair), including the pioneering and profound work of Dr. Laurence Heller's NARM® model, which we are proud to champion across the UK, Ireland and further afield.
We support a diverse range of professionals (from psychologists, psychotherapists and counsellors to coaches, mental health nurses, bodyworkers and educators), offering the transformative tools that approaches such as NARM® and other relational and somatic modalities provide for working with the impacts of difficult childhood experiences and relational wounding on our capacity to lead healthy and fulfilling lives.
Our Values
We believe in fostering learning spaces where everyone feels welcomed and valued (with consent, choice, and power named and respected). Our approach recognises that each person brings their own lived experience, embodied history and cultural perspective, which enriches our collective understanding of healing and connection in relationship.
We see ourselves as contributors to the broader movement toward trauma-informed and relationally grounded care. This means approaching our work with openness, humility, and a genuine desire to learn from the diverse experiences of our training community, while staying attentive to culture, difference, and the social contexts in which suffering and healing occur.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
We are dedicated to fostering a welcoming and respectful training environment for all participants (where consent, choice, and power are named and worked with rather than hidden). If you experience any concerns about cultural sensitivity or inclusivity during your training, we encourage you to speak with your training assistant or contact our lead trainer directly. We are committed to listening, learning, and working together to address any issues that arise and to supporting repair when rupture happens.
