Virtual Conference 2021
From Saturday,
27th March 2021
Online Conference
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Organised by Complex Trauma Therapists' Network in the UK (CTTN) and Complex Trauma Institute (CTI)
in collaboration with the University of York


Our Live Event Presentations
We're sorry if you missed us live on the 27th of March. However, you can catch up on our presentations below:
2021 Conference Presentations
1. 'Complex Trauma as a chronic dysfunction of the biological fear system: Implications for psychological therapy and examples from clinical practice'
Presenter: Michael Guiding (Psychotherapist and Clinical Supervisor in Private Practice)
2. 'Ethical and clinical best practices when working with person(s) in cross-cultural contexts in complex crisis’
Presenter: Dr. Khaleel Isa - Clinical Psychologist, UNICEF
3. 'Suicide loss and traumatic grief in children and adults: developing specialist psychological approaches for survivors of bereavement through suicide'
Presenter: Catherine Tatman - Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist
4. 'Moving from a systemic world into the world or trauma: working with families who have been impacted by domestic violence'
Presenter: Stephanie Dawson - Senior Practitioner, Family Action Survive & Thrive
5. 'Working with resettled refugee children, young people and families: a wraparound approach'
Presenter: Jude Boyles, Manager New Roots Therapeutic Service and Child and Family Wellbeing Project, South Yorkshire Refugee Council & Kathryn Townley, Child and Family Psychological Therapist for the Child and Family Wellbeing Project
6. 'Making meaning beyond words: a trauma informed model. Working creatively with separated children seeking asylum'
Presenters: Sasha Nemeckova - Dramatherapist, Refugee Council
7. 'The Focussed Mindfulness Method™ (FMM) for complex trauma' DONE
Presenter: Dr Clare Walters - Absolute Specialists Wellbeing
8. 'Complex Trauma and Grief Recovery from Multiple Losses' DONE
Presenters: Wendy Sloneker - Grief Recovery Specialist
9. 'Embodied Reprocessing™ in Working with Flashbacks Experienced by Clients with PTSD'
Presenter: Dzmitry Karpuk & Celia Dawson - Psychotherapists, CTTN & CTI
10. 'Offering Talking Therapy Pre-Trial'
Presenter: Erene Hadjiioannou - Integrative Psychotherapist DONE - PPT Needed?
11. 'Towards a Systemic Lens in Trauma work’
Presenters: Arlette Kavanagh & Audur Gudmundsdottir - Systemic psychotherapists
12. 'Placing the gaze on the therapist’
Presenter: Cherie Deakin - Integrative psychotherapist
13. 'Working with First Responders’
Presenter: Karla Dolinsky, M.C., M.Sc. Registered Clinical Counsellor, Trauma Therapist based in Victoria (Canada)
14. 'Preliminary results of a study of the prevalence and long-term consequences of Adverse Childhood Experiences in the Republic of Kazakhstan’
Presenter: Dr Karazhanova Anar, Head of Clinical Psychology Department, Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, NAO MUA (Astana Medical University, Kazakhstan)
15. 'Understanding the psychological characteristics of care-experienced adolescents with complex trauma exposure’
Presenter: Raahat Manrai, Dr. Emily Taylor, Dr. Rachel Happer & Dr. Cristobal Guerra, PhD candidate in Clinical Psychology (University of Edinburgh) DONE - PPT Needed?
16. 'Therapy Outside the Box’
Presenter: Rose Hall, Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist, Psychodynamic Psychotherapist, Counselor
and Solution Focused Therapist
17. 'Collective Care in this Time of Collective Trauma’
Presenter: Tina Puryear, Facilitator International Association of Facilitators (IAF) & Hannah Rutledge, Trainer
in Human Rights Sector
18. 'Helping children to recover from complex trauma’
Presenter: Sarah Palmer, Children’s Services Practitioner with the NSPCC and a Person-Centred counsellor
19. 'Working Systemically with People In A Mental Crisis During Coronavirus Pandemic’
Presenter: Shagufta Balquis, Systemic & Family Psychotherapist (MSc, UKCP & AFT Accred), Clinical Psychotherapist
20. 'A digitally inspired psychosocial support tool – a community response to Covid 19’
Presenter: Arlette Kavanagh & Lisa Blaney, Systemic Family Psychotherapists , Calm Together Project
21. 'Psychological impact on COVID-19 first line workers, a reflexion about how to address their needs when providing psychotherapy to them.’
Presenter: Antonio J. Martín-Bejarano García – Trainer and Psychologist, Msc General Health Psychology; Msc Psychological Intervention in Disasters and Emergency Situations
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Presenter: Dr Robert Davies
Complex Trauma as a chronic dysfunction of the biological fear system: Implications for psychological therapy and examples from clinical practice
Presenter: Michael Guilding, Psychotherapist and Clinical Supervisor in Private Practice
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Ethical and clinical best practices when working with person(s) in cross-cultural contexts in complex crisis
Presenter: Dr Khaleel Isa
Clinical Psychologist, UNICEF
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Suicide loss and traumatic grief in children and adults: developing specialist psychological approaches for survivors of bereavement through suicide
Webinar Presenter: Catherine Tatman
Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist
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Moving from a systemic world into the world or trauma: working with families who have been impacted by domestic violence
Webinar Presenter: Stephanie Dawson
Senior Practitioner, Family Action Survive & Thrive
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Working with resettled refugee children, young people and families: a wraparound approach
Webinar Presenter: Jude Boyles, Manager New Roots Therapeutic Service and Child and Family Wellbeing Project, South Yorkshire Refugee Council & Kathryn Townley, Child and Family Psychological Therapist for the Child and Family Wellbeing Project
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Making meaning beyond words: a trauma informed model.
Working creatively with separated children seeking asylum
Webinar Presenters: Sasha Nemeckova - Dramatherapist, Refugee Council
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The Focussed Mindfulness Method™ (FMM) for complex trauma
Presenter: Dr Clare Walters - Absolute Specialists Wellbeing
Please click on the icon to the right for presentation slides:
Complex Trauma and Grief Recovery from Multiple Losses
Presenter: Wendy Sloneker - Grief Recovery Specialist
Embodied Reprocessing™ in Working with Flashbacks Experienced by Clients with PTSD
Presenters: Dzmitry Karpuk & Celia Dawson - Psychotherapists, CTTN & CTI