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Report by Michelle Taylor

Not In Isolation: The Importance of Relationships and Healing in Childhood Trauma

In 2014, Michelle Taylor was awarded a Creswick Foundation Fellowship, enabling her to visit the United States and Canada and learn more about neurodevelopmentally informed interventions with traumatised infants, children and adolescents. This report outlines what she learned from her visits to five ChildTrauma Academy Flagship sites and to two ChildTrauma Academy Fellows. Michelle is now Director & Clinical Psychologist, Blossomtree Psychology, as well as an Associate of the Berry Street Childhood Institute.

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