What is The Connected Carer?

The Connected Carer is a 6-week, live, online pod for foster and kinship carers, delivered in small pods (6–8 carers) by a trauma-specialist psychotherapist, Rayma Torresan.

 
It combines:
✔ Live facilitated sessions
✔ Trauma-informed psychoeducation
✔ Practical caregiving strategies
✔ Group reflection and support
✔ Lifetime access to online learning materials

This program is not therapy - it is trauma-informed, educational, and skills-based support that complements statutory care planning and agency services.

Strategic Outcomes - Carer Focused

✔ Stronger placement stability
✔ Improved child emotional and behavioural outcomes
✔ Increased carer confidence and competence
✔ Reduced burnout and carer attrition
✔ Greater consistency in trauma-informed caregiving

Why the Group Model Works

Small pods of 6–8 carers:
✔ Reduce isolation
✔ Normalise challenges
✔ Build peer connection
✔ Increase engagement
✔ Improve learning retention

This mirrors what children need most: safety, connection, and consistency.

Trauma-Specialist Psychotherapist

Rayma Torresan is a trauma-specialist psychotherapist with extensive experience supporting individuals, couples, and families impacted by complex trauma, attachment disruption, addiction, anxiety, depression, and relationship breakdown.

She brings a deep understanding of attachment theory, trauma recovery, and nervous system regulation, translating evidence-based clinical knowledge into practical, compassionate strategies that carers and parents can implement in real-world settings.

Rayma has spent the majority of her career working within the child protection space, including extensive work with children in Out of Home Care, foster and kinship carers, and birth parents engaged with Child Protection services. Her approach is grounded in safety, accountability, and capacity-building, with a strong focus on improving relational functioning, emotional regulation, and parenting capability.

Rayma’s work supports carers and families to develop insight, stability, and sustainable change — particularly in complex, high-risk, and transitional family systems.

Live Group Support

Carer Pods are a small, supportive live groups designed to help  apply The Connected Carer tools to real life, in real time.

Across 6 weekly x 1.5 hour live sessions with Rayma, there will be opportunity to ask questions, talk through current challenges, and receive trauma-informed, connection-based guidance tailored to the family’s needs. Whether it's navigating big emotions, behavioural struggles, or feeling stuck and unsure what to do next, these sessions offer clarity, reassurance, and practical direction.