Trudie is a counsellor, trainer and writer, and the creative brain behind Elephants In Rooms. She researches and writes our courses, develops new ideas and has a particular talent for turning complicated psychological theory into practical content that makes sense in real life.
As a therapist, she has done extensive work with grief, traumatic bereavement and the losses that do not always fit neatly into conventional grief support, including suicide and drug-related death. She has also worked with people affected by sudden and complex loss, and brings that clinical experience directly into the training and resources she creates.
Trudie works extensively with neurodivergent clients and has a particular interest in how neurodivergence shapes experiences of grief, identity, relationships and therapy itself. She is especially interested in the assumptions built into traditional psychological models, and what happens when those models meet actual, complicated human beings.
That same curiosity runs through her training work: questioning what we take for granted, noticing what gets missed, and finding clearer, more useful ways of talking about difficult things.
Martin Roddis - Creator & Lead Trainer
Martin is a trainer, course designer and lead facilitator with a knack for making large, complicated subjects feel clear and manageable. He turns research and theory into learning that is relevant, memorable and genuinely useful in real situations.
He created the Grief First Aid course for Cruse Bereavement Support and developed the pilot peer-to-peer service for people bereaved by suicide. He has designed and delivered learning across the NHS, blue-light services, financial services, media and the voluntary sector, helping organisations respond to grief with greater understanding and confidence.
Martin was part of the committee developing BS 30480, the British Standard on suicide and the workplace, contributing his practical experience of grief, bereavement and organisational training.
Martin’s therapeutic work draws particularly on Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) and a longstanding love of Stoic philosophy. Both inform his practical approach to helping people understand how their beliefs shape their responses to grief, relationships and difficult life experiences.
