Our Team

We bring different expert perspectives to the table, but we’re united by a common purpose: to offer truly trauma-informed, anti-pathology, anti-oppressive, evidence-based services to all.

Founders of Aureum Trauma Experts

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Dr Jessica Taylor

Chartered Psychologist, Sunday Times Bestselling author, and founder of multiple initiatives, and co-author of The Indicative Trauma Impact Manual. Specialising in trauma, victimology, victim psychology, and anti-pathology approaches to support, justice, law and mental health for adults and children. Provides expert evidence, consultancy, training, and advocacy across legal, clinical, social and governmental systems.

Founder

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Jaimi Shrive

Academic, co-author of the Indicative Trauma Impact Manual and researcher with expertise in international politics and political responses to rape and sexual offences (RASSO), child sexual exploitation, and domestic abuse within the UK criminal justice system. Extensive experience working with unions, providing advocacy, training, and expert insight grounded in anti-pathologising, trauma-informed practice.

Founder

Our Trauma-Informed Experts

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Trauma-Informed Psychologists

Specialist psychologists who understand trauma responses without pathologising, providing expert support, advice, formulation, assessment, and expert reports that contextualise behaviour within lived experiences of harm, adversity, and survival.

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Trauma-Informed Medical Doctors

Medical doctors who recognise the impact of trauma on physical and mental health, providing assessments, reports, and advocacy that avoid pathologisation and prioritise holistic, contextual understanding.

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Trauma-Informed Lawyers

Legal professionals providing representation, advice, and expert opinion grounded in trauma-informed principles, ensuring client experiences are contextualised, understood, and robustly advocated within legal proceedings.

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Trauma-Informed Solicitors, Paralegals, and McKenzie Friends

Legal support professionals offering case preparation, guidance, and court assistance, ensuring trauma-informed communication, accessibility, and advocacy throughout legal processes and client engagement at all stages.

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Trauma-Informed Psychotherapists and Counsellors

Therapeutic practitioners supporting individuals through trauma without pathologising, focusing on safety, empowerment, and meaning-making while recognising responses as adaptive to lived experiences of harm.

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Trauma-Informed Police Officers and Detectives

Experienced investigators applying trauma-informed approaches to evidence gathering, victim engagement, and case building, ensuring sensitive handling of disclosures while pursuing accountability and justice for victims.

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Trauma-Informed Social Workers

Practitioners supporting individuals and families through complex systems, applying trauma-informed frameworks to safeguarding, assessment, and intervention while challenging pathologisation and advocating for contextual understanding.

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Trauma-Informed Academic Experts

Researchers and scholars providing evidence-based analysis, expert reports, and critical insight, ensuring trauma-informed, anti-pathologising interpretations of data, behaviour, and systems within legal and institutional contexts.

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Trauma-Informed Drama, Art, Play, and Dance Therapists

Creative therapists using expressive modalities to support trauma processing, communication, and recovery, recognising non-verbal experiences and avoiding pathologisation of adaptive responses to harm.

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Trauma-Informed Nurses and Midwives

Healthcare professionals providing trauma-informed care across physical and reproductive health, ensuring compassionate, non-pathologising support that recognises the impact of trauma on wellbeing and healthcare experiences.

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Trauma-Informed Hypnotherapists

Practitioners using guided techniques to support emotional regulation, behaviour change, and trauma processing, grounded in non-pathologising frameworks that respect autonomy, safety, and individual lived experience.

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Trauma-Informed Occupational Therapists

Professionals supporting daily functioning and independence through trauma-informed assessment and intervention, recognising environmental, social, and relational factors rather than pathologising individual responses to adversity.

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Trauma-Informed Interpreters, Intermediaries, and Translators

Communication specialists ensuring accurate, accessible, and trauma-informed exchange of information, supporting individuals to be understood and participate fully in legal, medical, and investigative processes.

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Trauma-Informed EFT and EMDR Practitioners

Specialist practitioners delivering evidence-based trauma therapies, supporting processing and integration of traumatic experiences without pathologising, and prioritising safety, stabilisation, and client-led recovery.

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Trauma-Informed Spiritual Guides, Doulas, and Healers

Practitioners offering holistic, culturally sensitive support, recognising spiritual and relational dimensions of trauma, and providing non-pathologising care that centres meaning, connection, and personal empowerment.

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Trauma-Informed Scientists and Analysts

Experts analysing complex data to produce clear, evidence-based insights, ensuring trauma-informed interpretation and avoiding reductionist or pathologising conclusions about individuals, groups, or behaviours.

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Trauma-Informed Pharmacists

Medication experts providing trauma-informed guidance on prescriptions, side effects, and alternatives, supporting informed choice while recognising the broader context of trauma and avoiding unnecessary medicalisation.

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Trauma-Informed Gynaecologists

Specialist doctors providing trauma-informed reproductive healthcare, recognising the impact of trauma on examinations, treatment, and consent, and ensuring sensitive, respectful, and non-pathologising care.

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Trauma-Informed Abuse, Stalking, Sexual and Domestic Violence Specialists

Experts in providing support to victims and witnesses, recognising and recording patterns of abuse and victimisation, providing assessment, reports, and advocacy that centre victim experiences, recognise coercive control, and challenge minimisation and pathologisation.

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Trauma-Informed Coaches and Mentors

Practitioners supporting personal and professional development through anti-pathology, trauma-informed approaches, focusing on empowerment, strengths, and forward movement without framing individuals as disordered or deficient.

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We provide:

Trauma-Informed Expert Witnesses and Subject Matter Experts for all types of legal cases and complaints

1:1 Independent, Trauma-Informed Support

Trauma Timelines and Needs Analyses

Consultancy, advice, and case reviews

Second opinions in cases of pathologisation, victim blaming, trauma, violence, and abuse

Independent Trauma Advocates in Mental Health and Capacity Cases

Support and advocacy to have challenge wrongful diagnosis, medication, and non-consensual treatment

Expertise in the pathologisation and medicalisation of stalking, abuse, violence, trauma, domestic abuse, sexual abuse and trafficking victims

Expert victim and witness support, counselling and advice in cases of interpersonal violence, abuse, and trauma

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