The Trauma Talks Podcast

A special recording of Jeremy's Book Launch at London's Freud Museum on Sept 23rd 2025 to celebrate the publication of 'An Intersectional Guide for Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse and their Allies: Masculinity Reconnected.' (Routledge 2025). For more info on the book and where to buy it, visit, www.jeremysachs.com CW: discusses sexual violence. 

In this episode the trauma talks team investigate queer trauma. Jeremy and Katherine along with their guests discuss the impacts of trauma on the Queer community as well as LGBTQIA+ individuals. With the panel guests, we hear about experiences of managing family expectations, minority stress and the everyday challenges of managing a life after trauma. We also discuss what helps, sharing messages o...

 In this episode, Jeremy and Katherine examine living with HIV. While contracting HIV may not be automatically traumatising, many experiences around an HIV diagnosis can be. We speak to two experts through experience and interview the clinical service lead at Positive East, one of the UK's top HIV charities. https://www.positiveeast.org.uk/ Content warning: contains references to various heal...

In this episode, Jeremy and Katherine investigate our most requested topic, trauma and seeking asylum. We speak to a refugee and asylum seeker about their experience, what some of the challenges are, as well as what helps. We also interview the clinical services manager at Freedom From Torture. This episode would not have been possible without our friends at the Scottish Refugee Council and Freedo...

In this episode, Jeremy and guest host Eve Wallman investigate traumatic bereavement. We examine what it is to experience the loss of a loved one/s and how it can be a trauma. We also speak to Cruse bereavement support and ask them how they help support people experiencing grief and loss. https://www.cruse.org.uk Content warning: contains references to various  issues that may be upsetting includi...

In this episode, Jeremy and Katherine investigate some of the traumas and stigma experienced by Sex Workers. We look at some of the lesser known experiences that can cause trauma for people who sell sex, as well as dispel some of the harmful stigmas and social attitudes. We speak to experts through experience as well as international campaigners and hear about best therapeutic practice, mutual aid...

In this episode, Jeremy and Katherine investigate one of the most requested topics, the experience of trauma for the autistic community. We examine what it is to  experience trauma while being autistic and managing the intersectional issues such as stigma, myths and oppression that accompany it. Content warning: contains references to various mental health issues, physical abuse and state sanction...

In this episode, Jeremy and Katherine investigate the rarely talked about experience of male sexual abuse experienced in adulthood. We examine the complex challenges of shame, societal preconceptions, masculinity and stigma. We speak with a panel of experts through experience as well as interview the London Victims Commissioner, Claire Waxman. Content warning: contains references to various mental...

The Trauma Talks is back! 10th May 2023 brings the return of Katherine and Jeremy's monthly examination of different experiences of trauma and how it affected people's lives day to day. In this series we examine: ·      Sex work and its links to trauma ·      Male survivors of sexual abuse in adulthood ·      Complex or traumatic bereavement ·      Autism and the experience of trauma · ...

In this episode, Jeremy and Katherine look back at their experience of recording the first series of The Trauma Talks podcast. They reflect on what different traumas have in common, what a person may need when supporting people who have lived through trauma and discuss their hopes for the future.   We speak Nicholas, an expert through experience who has listened to the show and discuss how that ha...

In this episode, Jeremy and Katherine investigate how intersectionality effects the management of trauma. We examine the complex challenges of accessing health services, dating and our relationship with our own identity when facing trauma and intersectional prejudice. We also investigate public health and ask the question, what changes are needed in order to provide a better understanding of inter...

In this episode, Jeremy and Katherine investigate the relatively unknown world of Chemsex. We ask, what is it? how does it effect our relationship with drugs and sex? how does it effect our relationship with ourselves? In what ways are chemsex and trauma linked? We speak with a panel of experts through experience as well as interview Simon Marks, an addiction, compulsive behaviours and childhood t...

In this episode, Jeremy and Katherine investigate Birth Trauma. We ask what is Birth Trauma? Why is it so unheard of? Can it be experienced vicariously by the partner who is not pregnant? and why is it so common? We speak to a panel of parents with lived experience of Birth Trauma and visit Kim Thomas, a journalist, author and CEO of the Birth Trauma Association. Content warning: contains referenc...

In this episode, Jeremy and Katherine investigate the experience of being a detainee within the British prison system. We ask what are the struggles while in prison and what can we do to manage trauma once released? We speak to a panel of ex-prisoners and visit Kelly Gleeson, who runs trauma support groups for women in prison, works with the Prison Reform Trust as the Advice and Information Traine...

In this episode, Jeremy and Katherine investigate childhood sexual abuse experienced by men. We ask, how do we move beyond such an early trauma in order to thrive in our lives? We speak with a panel of experts through experience as well as interview Dr. Christiane Sanderson, psychologist, consultant and author, with over thirty years of working with survivors of childhood sexual abuse, sexual and...

Episode One Series One: a Covid-19 special Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Trauma Talks recording studio in North London closed and the project was put on hold. However, the team set up a low-fi video call and invited three guests from previously recorded episodes back to investigate whether a history of trauma can actually help us survive lockdown? The series does not go into details about trau...