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Continuous Professional Development

- TRAINING 

2025 / 2026

. Deep Brain Reorienting / DBR Level 3 - Franc Corrigan

2024

. Finding Solid Ground intensive - Dr Ruth Lanius Ph D & Dr Bethany Brand Ph D, Nov 2024

. Deep Brain Reorienting, / DBR Level 1 & 2 - Dr Jessica Christie- Sands & Dr Franc Corrigan

2023

. Certified Clinical Trauma Professional Training Levels I & II - Dr. Janina Fisher
  Complex trauma certification 

. Certificate Programme in Advanced Trauma, PTSD & Dissociation
  Dr. Ruth Lanius Ph D and today's leading trauma innovators

2021

. Certificate in Traumatic Stress Studies, Trauma Research Foundation - 8 months program -     
 Bessel Van der Kolk et al.

CONFERENCES & SEMINARS

 2026

. Frank Anderson -Treating Complex PTSD with IFS Therapy - June - October - 4 days 1/2

. 37th international conference, Trauma Research Foundation 4 days

. "Releasing our burdens - a guide to healing individual, ancestral and collective trauma"
    Dr R Schwartz and Dr T Hubl - 1h

. Séminaires​ de l'association Ethnotopies - 2 h each
- Emmanuel Declercq : 'Quelques considérations clinico-théoriques sur l'accompagnement des personnes en souffrance psychique et en demande de protection internationale'
- "Clinique de l’humanisation à l’épreuve des traumatismes extrêmes cumulés à l’exil. De la torture déshumanisante à une rencontre réhumanisante."

. DBR conf, Toronto - 2 days

CONFERENCES & SEMINARS

  2025
. 36th int. trauma research foundation conferences

. The Sensory Exchange - from the book 'The Sensory Pathways to Healing from Trauma'
  Ruth Lanius, Sherain Harricharan, Breanne E. Kearney, Benjamin Pandev-Girard

. Structural Dissociation - Suzette Boon, Kathy Steele, Onno Van Der Hart

2024
. Trauma, attachment & resilience - Quantum Way

. Technology-Assisted Child Sexual Abuse: How to Support Survivors and Families
Cyber-trauma - Cath Knibbs - NSciences

. 35th int. conference - Trauma Research Foundation, Boston 

. Treating Complex Trauma with the Internal Family System [IFS] Richard Schwartz, Frank Anderson, Martha Sweezy

CONFERENCES & SEMINARS

  2023
. ‘Can we talk about trauma ?’ - Michael Niconchuk, Dr Ruth Lanius Ph D, Dr Wendy D'Andrea
    Ph D, Stevan Weine, Brandon Kohrt, Mary Bunn, Noah Tucker,  

. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for trauma, Pat Ogden 

. ‘Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Transformational Approaches to Treating     Complex Trauma’ - Dr Janina Fisher - Workshop, London, UK

2022
. The Developing Mind: Building trust, growth & resilience together, Peter Fonagy + Q&A, Dan     Siegel + Q&A, Anousha Kahn + Q&A, Roslyn Law 
   + Q&A Anthea Benjamin: Working outside the consultation room

CONFERENCES & SEMINARS

  2021

. Gabor Maté Compassionate Inquiry: A powerful approach for healing anxiety, addictions,   
ADHD, December 2021

. Internal Family Systems (IFS) and health issues: changing the course of health ailments and
disease, Pesi

. The Trauma Treatment Blueprint: Neuroscience-Based Treatment Interventions for Complex
Trauma Clients (CCTP/CCTP-II) , Pesi

. IFS Online Circle: Foundations of the IFS Model

. The Clinician's Suicide Prevention Summit: Treatment Strategies to Inspire Hope and Save Lives

. LGBTQ Clients: Clinical Issues and Treatment Strategies for Youth and Adults

. Laural Parnell - Attachment-Focused EMDR for complex PTSD, childhood ongoing traumas

. Mental Health Awareness Summit: Individual and community recovery - healing trauma, grief
and loss as a result of the pandemic

. Journées Internationales de Neuro-psychologie; Lobes frontaux et fonctions exécutives -
Université d’Angers

. 32d Boston conference, Trauma Research Foundation, 26-29/05/2021

. Trauma Research Foundation Tuesdays, Michael Lee, Yoga therapy, 8 Tuesdays April, May,
   June 2021

CONFERENCES & SEMINARS

 2021

. Still face, mirror neuros, ISC International, 19-21/03/2021

. Individual and Community Recovery - Trauma, grief, loss in the aftermath of the pandemic,
pesi
. Mindfulness and Pain, Jon Kabat Zinn, Soundstrue, 2021

. How to work with a traumatic Brain, Bessel Van Der Kolk - NICABM, 2021

.  Mental Health Awareness Summit: Individual and community recovery - healing trauma, grief
   and loss as a result of the pandemic, 2 days - April 2021

. Neurobiology of Trauma, NICABM, Nov 2020- B Van der Kolk, P Levine, R Lanius, D Siegel,
S Porges, P Ogden

. Women, Trauma and Mental Health Conference, PESI, UK -Nov 2020
   Jutra Samuel, Pat Ogden, Kathy Steele, Janina Fisher, Judith Lewis Herman, Cathy Malchiodi,   
Arielle Schwartz, Linda Graham, Babette Rothschild, 

. Comment la méditation peut changer le monde - Les Arènes du savoir 
  How can meditation change the world - J Kabat Zinn, C André, M Ricard

.  Trauma skills Summit - 10 days
  Levine on Trauma and addiction
  Daniel J Siegel on The Wheel of Awareness: A Trauma Recovery Tool for Well-Being

. 31st International trauma Conference - 3 days - Van de Kolk; Porges et al.
  Traumas and NeuroSciences

. Working with EMDR Online - nscience

. Internal Family System - R Schwartz & M Sweezy

CONFERENCES & SEMINARS

 2020

. Neuro-biological response to EMDR therapy in clients with different psychological traumas -
  Marco Pagani

. Why the vagal system holds the key to the treatment of trauma - Stephen Porges

. The polyvagal theory can revolutionize your work with trauma - Porges

. Guided parents led CBT for child anxiety – AnxietyUK

2018 & 2019
. Pleine conscience - Se changer, changer le monde
  Bruxelles - 2 jours 
 

. Mark Solms Conference, 2018 - University of Essex
  Is neuroscience saving or destroying psychoanalysis ?

. What is the unconscious, and where is it located in the brain ?

. The conscious Id 

SUPERVISION 

 Ongoing since ~ 2017

. Monthly group supervision with the Complex Trauma Treatment Affiliate 

. Deep Brain Reorienting consultation and mentoring group with Anna Hallberg

. 1:1 supervision with senior trauma trained therapists
                     e.g. Bethany Brand, Ruth Lanius
                            I also worked previously with
                            Kathy Steele, Kristin Forner , Jamie Marich, Peter Mabbutt

2025 - 2026

. Deep Brain Reorienting Consultation and Mentoring with Franck Corrigan, Ph.D.

2024

. Deep Brain Reorienting, monthly supervisions group with Maxine Sherrell 

2023

. Trauma Research Foundation's Group
  Supervision and Consultation Program, led by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
April 2023 - June 2023

2022

. IFS fortnightly exchange practice with a colleague

. Joining the monthly meetings of the Complex Trauma Training and Treatment Affiliates
Network 

2021

. Polyvagal Skills and Supervision Group, 6 months, Deb Dana

. Polyvagal theory - Practice and personal supervision -  Deb Dana

. Trauma Conference: The Body Keeps the Score-Trauma Healing with Bessel van der Kolk

. IFS Skills and Supervision Group, Pesi

                                                             

MY OWN THERAPIES

 Ongoing work                                                                     

Currently; DBR / Deep Brain Reorienting
                                                                         
Previously since 2008 ;
IFS / Internal Family System
Hypnosis
EMDR / Eye Mouvement Desensitisation Reprocessing
EFT / Emotional Freedom Technique

BOOKS
Also check in the 'Resources' section

. Cultural Competence and Healing Culturally Based Trauma with EMDR Therapy: Innovative Strategies and Protocols - Mark Nickerson

. Vivre avec un conjoint rescapé de violences sexuelles,  Illel Kieser el baz, Julie Junquet

~ Living with a partner who escaped sexual violence


. ‘les hommes de la rue du bac’ Willy Le Devi


. le grand livre de l hypnotherapie – Evelyne Josse


. prendre en charge les traumas par l’hypnose – Evelyne Josse


. Sensory pathways to healing from trauma - Ruth Lanius, Sherain Harricharan, Breanne E.
Kearney, Benjamin Pandev-Girard


. Releasing our burden – R Schwartz & Thomas Hubl


. La decolonisation n’est pas une métaphore – E Tick & K. Wayne Yang


. Altruism - the science and psychology of kindness - Matthieu Ricard


. 'Dissociation made simple, a stigma-free guide to embracing your dissociative mind and
    navigating daily life'    Dr. Jamie Marich


. The concise guide to the assessment and treatment of trauma-related dissociation    
  Bethany L. Brand


. Psychothérapie des Etats Dissociatifs - M Phillips & C Frederick


. Integrative Hypnosis for kids and teens - M Tiers and K Woods


. Ego State Therapy - G Emmerson


. Reframing Hypnotherapy; R Mongard


. The wisdom of menopause; christiane Northrup


. Beliefs; R. Dilts, T Hallbom, S Smith


. Vagina; N Wolf


. The woman code - Alisa Vitti

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