Being Exceptional: The Challenge of Difference
Date: Saturday, 4 October 2025
Time: 9:00 – 16:30 (includes lunch, 6 hours CPD)
Venue: The Victory Services Club, 63–79 Seymour Street, London W2 2HF
Cost: £75 to include refreshments and lunch
Join us for the 2025 PTSD Resolution Conference as we confront the realities of working with individuals who live outside the mainstream—those for whom systems often fail, and yet who show remarkable resilience in the face of trauma, addiction, social isolation, and more.
This year’s theme, “Being Exceptional: The Challenge of Difference,” challenges therapists, professionals, and organisations to look deeper, beyond box-ticking, to real engagement and transformation. As always, the conference is grounded in the mission of PTSD Resolution: to deliver fast, free, and effective therapy to veterans, reservists, and their families.
Featured Topics & Speakers:
Addiction and Trauma in Veterans
• Dr Ben Grall – Specialist Doctors at Change Grow Live / CGL National Lead for Veterans
• Discussing integrated care models for substance misuse and PTSD, including work with veterans still using.
Poverty and Moral Injury:
• Dr Sarah Troughton – Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Lead, NHS Veterans Network
• Exploring how financial hardship, abandonment, moral injury and socio-economic trauma affect mental health and recovery.
Criminal Justice and Reintegration
• Chris Parsons – Director, LandWorks
• On successful pathways for reintegration to society for those in and exiting the criminal justice system. Sharing real-world strategies for supporting ex-offenders to rebuild their identity.
Child Protection and Sexual Risk
• Adrian McNulty – Director of Operations, Lucy Faithfull Foundation
• This session will explore working therapeutically in high-risk safeguarding environments, where trauma, technology and offending behaviour intersect. The nature and scale of child sexual abuse and the work of the Lucy Faithfull Foundation supporting those who offend and those impacted.
Complex PTSD and the International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ): What the Data Tells Us
• Bill Andrews – PTSD Resolution
• Presenting new research findings from PTSD Resolution’s use of the ITQ across hundreds of therapy cases. This session explores how veterans and other clients meet the criteria for Complex PTSD, what changes are observed through therapy, and what the data reveals about trauma recovery outside mainstream clinical settings. A vital look at evidence-based practice from the margins.
Why Attend?
• 6 hours of CPD-certified learning
• In-depth, practical sessions from frontline experts
• Case-led insights on trauma, addiction, justice and recovery
• A fresh perspective on what “exceptional” really means in therapeutic practice
• Networking with peers, lunch included
This is not just a conference. It is a call to improve how we respond to trauma, not with rhetoric but with purpose, understanding and action.
Booking via Eventbrite: Click here to book your place
For further information: www.PTSDresolution.org or call 0300 302 0551
