Musarat Ahmed

My name is Musarat and I am the Trauma informed Domestic Abuse Manager at Stockport without Abuse and a Qualified Counsellor.

I have been with SWA for over 8 years, working in various different roles, supporting women who have experienced domestic abuse. In my current role, I support clients who hve PTSD as well as trauma symptoms following domestic abuse. Some of these issues include, clients that self-harm, have suicidal ideations and struggle with substance use, anxiety, self-blame, flashbacks and nightmares. The work we do enables our clients to begin to build an emotionally and physically safe environment for themselves and develop strategies to support them in maintaining this long term. I also support women in understanding how their past traumas have impacted their decision making processes. In doing so this helps clients with making changes and breaking patterns of abusive relationships. 

I also create resources, deliver group work and co-write training. This is aimed to improve the response of professionals towards clients, to prevent re-traumatisation and increase their engagement with services.