Barbara Borghetto

Barbara is a trauma-informed practitioner with over 20 years’ experience working across Youth Justice, Probation, Criminal Justice, and Children & Family Services. Her work is grounded in relational, attachment-focused approaches, particularly Non-Violent Resistance (NVR) and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP).

She specialises in parenting interventions and psychoeducation, supporting families where children present with neurodivergence, developmental needs, and complex behaviours. Her areas of expertise include offending behaviour, domestic abuse, substance misuse, high parental conflict, and sexually harmful behaviour, with a strong focus on understanding behaviour through a trauma-and attachment-informed lens.

Conference Workshop

Building Safety and Hope: Responding to Sexual Harmful Behaviour in Children and Young People with an NVR Integrated approach

Workshop Goals:

• Introduce a new, integrated model combining NVR, DDP, CBT & DBT and AIMS to respond to sexual harmful behaviours.

• Equip participants with practical strategies that are trauma-informed, relational, and developmentally appropriate.

• Explore how the approaches work together to maintain adult presence, set clear boundaries, and support relational safety while managing risk.