Amanda Webb-Johnson

Amanda is an experienced trauma therapist and trainer with nearly 30 years’ experience working with individuals and communities affected by conflict, displacement and violence. She established and led Refugee Resource, an Oxford-based charity offering support to refugees, asylum seekers and vulnerable migrants. She worked extensively offering trauma therapy and developing innovative psychosocial and therapeutic services with displaced people from diverse cultural backgrounds. Having worked for a rape crisis centre she has also developed a specialism in working with survivors of sexual violence from a range of international contexts and in the UK.

Currently a trauma therapist with Noreen Tehrani Associate Practitioners, she has delivered trauma support training and resilience building programmes for a wide range of organisations including UK College of Policing, Home Office, NHS and BBC, Oxford University and Oxford Brookes University. She also works individually as a trauma therapist, with a particular focus with people working in emergency services.

Amanda is passionate about bringing learnings from trauma research and practice to support those affected by trauma and in sharing skills and approaches with humanitarian and emergency workers, peacebuilders and anyone working within the field of trauma who is at risk of developing secondary trauma and compassion fatigue. She aims to create a safe and enriching learning environment where participants can share and learn from their own and each others’ experiences.