Ms Nicola Trenorden

Nicola is a Social Worker and registered Clinical Counsellor with a Masters in Social Work and Masters in Counselling from Flinders University & University of South Australia. Nicola is an experienced child and youth practitioner specialising in grief, loss and trauma counselling.
She has provided therapeutic trauma informed counselling with children and young people in multicultural primary schools, private practice and human service settings.

Nicola's clinical and management experience includes over 30 years in the non-government sector supporting vulnerable children and youth in therapeutic programs. She has developed trauma informed experiential and expressive art programs for refugee, Aboriginal and marginalised young people, and children, in services such as Survivors of Torture and Trauma Assistance and Rehabilitation Service, to aid trauma recovery.

Nicola’s professional practice is guided by trauma informed care, ethics of justice and compassion. She holds a child rights and ecological perspective, is client centred and enjoys inviting imagination, creativity, and self-expression to support children and young people's agency in discovering their internal resources and ways of knowing and resilience.