With a background in education and years of experience as a psychotherapist specialising in the treatment of trauma, Rosalind Townsend is the lead trainer for Beacon Training and Consultancy. Through her work with the charity PTSD Resolution and other organsiations in the mental health sector she has written and delivered specialist courses for ambulance trusts, the fire service, universities, the civil service and NHS health trusts. She is a tutor for the Human givens College, a training establishment for those working in the field of mental health and her passion is for ensuring that good quality information in this field, free from psychobabble and confusion is availale to all. She is author of the widely acclaimed book, PTSD Understanding and Recovery, and her second book, Why Three Fs?, a more general guide to emotional wellbeing will be published in the winter of 2023. 

Ros’s work as a psychotherapist, which continues through the Beacon Clinic alongside her training and consultancy work, ensures that her knowledge of the field remains up-to-date and in line with the latest understandings and she has a knack for presenting complicated subjects in a way that can be grasped easily and then applied by individuals from a wide range of backgrounds and in a wide range of settings.