Dr. Marylene Cloitre is a Research Professor and Senior Research Scientist at NYU Silver School of Social Work. Her long-standing research and clinical interests have concerned the long-term effects of psychological trauma on social and emotional functioning. Her current research is dedicated to the development of effective, patient-tailored, flexibly delivered mental health programs for trauma exposed populations.

Dr. Cloitre has received funding for this research from a variety of agencies including NIMH, SAMHSA, PCORI and the VA.  She is a member of the advisory board for the planning and ongoing development of the 9/11 Memorial Museum. Dr. Cloitre is past-president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and was a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) ICD-11 working group on trauma-spectrum disorders. She is also the 2015 recipient of the Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Practice of Trauma Psychology from Division 56 of the American Psychological Association.

Christine Dunkley DClinP is a Consultant Psychotherapist, author and international speaker on Dialectrical Behaviour Therapy, Mindfulness and Emotional pain.  She is a consultant trainer with the British Isles DBT training team . In 2012 she retired from the NHS after 30 years of clinical work and is the Clinical Director of the mental health training company Grayrock www.grayrock.co.uk. 

Christine completed a 4 year degree to qualify as medical social worker in 1982, first working with patients with terminal conditions and their families, then moving into physical trauma. She found her niche in the emergency department working with clients who had self-harmed, which led her to undertake further qualifications in counselling and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy. She gained her doctorate in the University of Southampton school of health sciences on the communication of emotional pain in suicidal clients. She worked for 20 years in the Psychological Therapy Service in Winchester, delivering DBT and Counselling to patients with severe mental health problems. She also supervised in Primary care, developing a placement service for trainee counselors.

In 2006 Christine was invited to join the national DBT training team and began to train and supervise new DBT teams and therapists across the UK and Ireland.  She completed training as an adherence coder with staff from the University of Washington and the Linehan Institute. Her specialist subjects are the regulation of painful emotion, and mindfulness.

She has over 30 publications including ‘Regulating Emotion the DBT Way’ ‘Teaching Clients to Use Mindfulness Skills’, and ‘Using Mindfulness Skills in Everyday Life,’ . She also co-produced the ‘Core Components of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy’ DVD series with Michaela Swales. She has provided numerous book chapters and articles for British, American and European Journals.

Christine is Vice President of the Society for DBT and was the first chair. She was awarded a fellowship of the Society in 2016. She has also received a NICE ‘shared contributor award’ for work relating to developing counselling services in Primary Care. She sat on the national Personality Disorders reference group in University College London, and is an honorary lecturer for Bangor University. She assisted in the treatment development for Radical Openness in the large multi-site NHS RCT.

Dr. Julian Ford is a board certified clinical psychologist and tenured Professor of Psychiatry of Law where he is Chair on two panels of the Institutional Review Board, and on the faculty of the University of Connecticut School. He is the Principal Investigator and Director of two Treatment and Services Adaptation Centers in the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, the Center for Trauma Recovery and Juvenile Justice and the Center for the Treatment of Developmental Trauma Disorders. He serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Trauma and Dissociation and European Journal of Psychotraumatology and as Chair of the American Psychological Association Division of Trauma Psychology Presidential Task Force on Child Trauma. for the American Psychological Association Division of Trauma Psychology. He has served on the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Board of Directors and as the Society’s Vice President and Secretary.

He has published more than 250 articles and book chapters and am the author or editor of 10 books, including Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, 2nd Edition, Treating Complex Trauma: A Sequenced, Relationship-Based Approach and Treating Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Scientific foundations and therapeutic models. He developed and has conducted randomized clinical trial and effectiveness studies with the Trauma Affect Regulation: Guide for Education and Therapy (TARGET©) model for and youth adults with complex PTSD.

Dr. Emily Fox is Director of Psychological Therapy for St. Andrews Healthcare, Northampton. Since qualifying as a clinical psychologist in 1997, Emily has worked in a number of inpatient settings including learning disability, eating disorders, acute admissions, and adolescents. Since 2003 she has worked with women with a primary diagnosis of EUPD within inpatient services (specialist rehabilitation and low secure settings) delivering comprehensive DBT programmes.

Emily completed her DBT Intensive Training in 2004 in Northampton, USA. In 2009 she undertook supervision with Heidi Heard, PhD. She joined the BiDBT training team in 2010. Emily has written articles on delivering DBT in inpatient settings and most recently authored the ‘Delivering DBT in Inpatient Settings’ chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (2019).

Emily is an accredited Dialectical Behaviour Therapist working as a DBT therapist, trainer and supervisor. She volunteers for the Society of DBT (SfDBT) and has been Chair of the SfDBT for the past 5 years, previously being the General Secretary.

Dr. Philip Hyland is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Maynooth University. Philip’s research focuses on understanding the nature, predictors, and outcomes of psychological responses to trauma, and the dimensional structure of psychopathology. Philip is widely published in these areas and currently serves as the Deputy Statistical Editor for the Journal of Traumatic Stress. Philip’s research has been funded by several national and international funding agencies including the Health Research Board, the Irish Research Council, and the European Commission.

Professor Karatzias, has spent his entire clinical and academic career working in the field of psychological trauma. In collaboration with national and international research partners he has developed a special interest in the effects and treatment of psychological trauma on physical and mental health; on prison populations; and on people with learning disabilities. He has published extensively in these areas.

Dr Edel McGlanaghy is a Clinical Psychologist and Researcher Fellow. Dr McGlanaghy is a scientist-practitioner keenly interested in the understanding of and practical interventions for mental health difficulties, from a psychological perspective. Passionate about so much, but specifically trauma informed practice, Complex trauma, perinatal mental health, emotional regulation, EMDR and IPT. Dr McGlanaghy's current academic focus is on trauma informed access to interventions for Complex trauma, with a strong base in evidence based psychological intervention, meta-analyses & consideration of the adverse effects of psychotherapy. 

Dr Deborah Morris (Scientific Committee and Co-Chair) Director, Centre for Developmental and Complex Trauma, UK Director of Postgraduate programmes in trauma, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Buckingham Deborah is the director for the Centre for Developmental and Complex Trauma and the Director of Post graduate programmes in trauma, University of Buckingham.

A Consultant Clinical Psychologist by training, Deborah has worked clinically with adults with complex personality disorder, neurodevelopmental, forensic and mental health needs in the community, assertive outreach, crisis, residential, prison and inpatient settings.

Dr Angela Nickerson is a Lecturer at the School of Psychology, UNSW Australia, and Director of the Refugee Trauma and Recovery Program. Her research focuses on understanding the psychological mechanisms underpinning refugee and post-conflict mental health, and developing effective interventions for traumatic stress reactions in refugees. She is also interested in the impact of policy on refugee mental health, and cross-cultural considerations in psychological processes.  She has worked with numerous refugee and post-conflict populations in Australia, Switzerland, the United States, and Timor Leste.

Prior to taking up her position at the University of NSW, Angela conducted post-doctoral research at Harvard University and Boston University, investigating psychological responses to loss and trauma. She is a practising clinical psychologist specialising in traumatic stress reactions. At the University of NSW, Angela is involved in training therapists on the Master of Clinical Psychology program, lecturing on anxiety and mood disorders, traumatic stress responses, refugee mental health, and cross-cultural considerations in mental health.

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This is a service we are looking to offer in the future and we hope to be able to meet this need with our future events.

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