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Dr Walter Busuttil
Dr Walter Busuttil is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Medical Director to Combat Stress
the National Charity dedicated to the mental health needs of Combat Veterans and
Ex- Service personnel.
He joined the RAF, where he served for 16 years, as a medical student cadet
qualifying in medicine in Manchester in 1983. In the RAF he played a key role in the
setting up and implementing novel PTSD rehabilitation programmes for servicemen
and veterans. He was part of the team that rehabilitated the British Hostages released
from Beirut and the First Gulf War POWs. In 1997 he moved to Ticehurst House
Hospital, East Sussex as Co-Director of the Trauma Service where he set up a
national tertiary referral service for the treatment and rehabilitation of Complex PTSD
sufferers who were mainly women adult survivors of sexual abuse. In 2004 he took up
the post of Medical Director at the Dene Hospital, an all women‟s medium secure
forensic hospital, in West Sussex, where he set up a unique Psychological Trauma
Service. In June 2007 he became the first full time Medical Director of Combat
Stress. He has been a member of the UK Trauma Group since 1998 and a founder
board member of the UK Psychological Trauma Society. He has published and
lectured widely in the field of Traumatic Stress.
Dr Oscar Daly
Dr Oscar Daly is a consultant in general adult psychiatry working in Northern Ireland.
Since his appointment, in 1990, he has had a particular clinical and research interest in
the psychological problems experienced by those affected by the conflict in Northern
Ireland. He has had a number of publications in the field and has presented papers at
numerous national and international meetings.
He has been a member of the UK Trauma Group since its inception in 1995. He has
been a member of both ESTSS and ISTSS (European and International Societies for
Traumatic Stress Studies) since 1993 and served on the Board of Directors of ESTSS
between 2001 and 2005. He was Secretary to the Board between 2002 and 2005.
He has acted in an informal, advisory capacity to a variety of organisations working in
the field and is a member of the Local Health Authority‟s Trauma Advisory Panel and
Trauma Implementation Group. He was lead author for the development of
guidelines on the management of post traumatic stress disorder in adults published by
the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety in Belfast in 2003.
He has worked with the media for a number of years, previously as Public Education
Officer for the Irish Division of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, that role including
responsibility for the launch of the anti stigma campaign in Belfast in 1999.
He was clinical director for psychiatry in the Down-Lisburn HSS Trust 2002-2007
and the South Eastern HSC Trust 2007.
Professor David Clark
David M Clark is Professor of Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings
College London and Director of the Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma at the
Maudsley Hospital, London. He has an international reputation for his work on the
understanding and treatment of anxiety disorders. With colleagues, he has developed

effective psychological treatments for four different anxiety disorders: panic disorder,
social phobia, post-traumatic stress disorder and health anxiety.
He has also played a key role in disseminating the new treatments. The first major
project arose from the tragedy of the Omagh Car Bomb (15 th August 1998). Shortly
afterwards, Professor Clark trained local clinicians in cognitive therapy for posttraumatic
stress disorder. An audit of the initial cases demonstrated remarkable
improvement and persuaded the Northern Ireland Office to help establish the
Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation which offers the treatment to
victims of terrorist violence from 1970s onwards. The model adopted in Omagh was
subsequently used as a template for the psychotherapeutic response to the 2005
London Bombs, with similarly good results.
He has been heavily involved in arguing for, and helping guide, the UK
Government‟s Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Initiative, which
is a £306 million programme that aims to train and employ 3,600 new psychological
therapists over the next three years. Professor Clark is currently the National Clinical
Adviser to the Programme.
Fellowships/Awards: He is a Fellow of the British Academy (London), a Fellow of
the Academy of Medical Sciences (London), and Distinguished Founding Fellow of
the Academy of Cognitive Therapy (USA). Also Past President of the British
Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (1992) and Past President
of the International Association of Cognitive Psychotherapy (1992-95). Awards
include: the May Davidson Award (British Psychological Society), the Research
Excellence Award (Beck Institute for Cognitive Studies, USA), being voted a World
Leader in Anxiety Disorders Research by members of the Anxiety Disorders of
America Association (1998), and the Behaviour Research and Therapy Award (1997)
for the most outstanding article ( “A Cognitive Approach to Panic”) published in that
journal since it‟s founding in 1962.
Dr Sarah Davidson
Sarah is the Psychosocial Advisor for the British Red Cross. She has been with the
Red Cross for over thirty years in a variety of roles including as an emergency
responder, member of the Board of Trustees and Vice Chairman. As the Psychosocial
Advisor she has developed the service the British Red Cross provides with the
Foreign and Commonwealth Office responding to disasters involving British citizens
around the world. She is also responsible for advising the Red Cross on all areas of
psychosocial strategy and implementation, including emergency response and
planning. She has written the Red Cross‟ psychosocial framework: CALMER and coauthored
The First Aid Manual.
Sarah is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Tavistock Clinic in the NHS and
Deputy Clinical Director of the Clinical Psychology Doctorate at the University of
East London. She has over 20 years experience in the health service having initially
qualified as a nurse, and has since been involved in all aspects of clinical practice,
management, education and research.

Dr Chris Freeman
Dr Freeman was appointed to the first Consultant Psychotherapist post in cognitive
behavioural psychotherapy in 1984 and three years later opened the Cullen Centre the
first cognitive behavioural psychotherapy department in Scotland specialising in the
treatment of eating disorders, anxiety disorders and depression using CBT. He began
regular training courses in CBT leading to the setting up of the South of Scotland
Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy course.
In 1996 Dr Freeman set up the Rivers Centre for the treatment of traumatic stress
reactions. This was the first traumatic stress clinic in Scotland, named after William
Halse Rivers who practiced in Craiglockhart during World War I. This is now called
the Edinburgh Traumatic Stress Centre and has grown to the largest traumatic stress
service in the UK.
In 1996 he trained in interpersonal psychotherapy IPT in Toronto, Canada and then
set up IPT UK the National organisation for the training and supervision of
interpersonal psychotherapy. Dr Freeman continues his interest in ECT having set up
SEAN the Scottish ECT Accreditation Network and ECTAS (the ECT accreditation
service for England and Wales) under the auspices of the Royal College of
Psychiatrists in 2002.
In 2003 Dr Freeman started the ANITT (Anorexia Nervosa Intensive Treatment
Team) which pioneered the use of intensive home based treatment for patients with
severe anorexia nervosa who would normally be admitted to hospital.
He has been editor of the Edinburgh Companion to Psychiatric Studies, published
books on research methods, eating disorders and psychotherapy and over 200 peer
reviewed research papers. He is currently chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
Ethics Committee, has been chair of the UK Trauma Group for three years and is
President of the inaugural board of the UK Psychological Trauma Society.
Dr Adrian Grounds
Dr Adrian Grounds is a University Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychiatry at the
Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, and Consultant Forensic
Psychiatrist in the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust. In
addition to research and teaching in the University he provides a community forensic
psychiatry service in mid-Cambridgeshire and with the mental health in-reach team at
Littlehey Prison. He is also one of the Sentence Review Commissioners and a Parole
Commissioner in Northern Ireland and a Trustee of the Prison Reform Trust.
Dr Jamie G H Hacker Hughes
Dr Hacker Hughes is Head of Defence Clinical Psychology, Ministry of Defence and
Honorary Senior Lecturer in Military Psychology at King‟s College London. He is a
Consultant Chartered Clinical Psychologist, Clinical Neuropsychologist, Cognitive-
Behavioural Psychotherapist and EMDR Consultant.
Jamie has a particular interest in the psychological preparation of troops for military
operations and in clinical interventions, especially early interventions, to minimise
any psychological after-effects and has visited several operational theatres including
Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Kosovo and Iraq. He has researched and published widely

in the areas of clinical hypnosis, cognitive behavioural therapy, PTSD, EMDR and
psychological effects of military operations and is a reviewer for several journals.
Jamie is a former Chair of the Eastern Counties Branch of BABCP and Council
Member of the UK & Ireland EMDR Association and is currently on the Board of the
UK Psychological Trauma Society and a member of the ESTSS Task Force on
Managing Trauma in the Uniformed Services. He is Vice Chair of the NATO Task
Group on Stress and Psychological Support in Modern Military Operations and
represents NATO Psychologists on the NATO Military Psychiatry Panel. He is a coauthor
of the recent NATO Joint Medical Committee and Senior Civil Emergency
Planning Committee on Psychosocial Care for People affected by Disasters and Major
Incidents.
Dr Alastair Hull
Dr Alastair Hull is a Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy and Clinical Lead for
the Tayside Multidisciplinary Adult Psychotherapy Service (MAPS). He is an
Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Dundee. Prior to Tayside he
worked at the Traumatic Stress Clinic and trauma liaison service in Aberdeen and as
an aspiring academic at the Aberdeen Centre for Trauma Research.
His teaching and research interests mirror his clinical work with a noted
preoccupation with post-trauma reactions evidenced by his publications. He has
presented at National, European and World conferences on aspects of post-traumatic
outcome and care and runs workshops on the treatment of post traumatic reactions
and chronic depression.
Dr Lesley Hunter
Lesley is a chartered clinical psychologist who has worked in a variety of NHS
settings including most recently, the Lothian Chronic Pain Service where she was
responsible for the management and delivery of psychology services to the
anaesthetist led pain clinic at the Western General Hospital Edinburgh. Previously,
she was a management consultant with the Human Resources Team at KPMG,
Edinburgh where she was involved in the provision of business psychology services
to clients. Lesley joined the team at Edinburgh Traumatic Stress Centre in June 2003.
Neil J Kitchiner
Neil is a Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapist. He is currently seconded from the
Cardiff and Vale ULHB, Dept of Liaison Psychiatry and Traumatic Stress Service, to
facilitate the pilot MOD funded Veterans Community Mental Health Service. He is a
registered mental health nurse with 24 year‟s experience of working in the UK and
Australia. He has worked in HM Prisons, the Priory Hospital, Bristol and for the past
7 years at the University Hospital of Wales, with responsibility for the NHS
partnership with the South Wales Fire and Rescue Service. Neil is in his final year of
a PhD at Cardiff University.
Dr Deborah Lee
Deborah is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Head of Berkshire Traumatic
Stress Service. She is also an honorary Senior Lecturer at University College London.

Dr Lee has worked in the field of trauma for 16 years and specialises in the treatment
of PTSD and complex Trauma. Her particular area of clinical and research interest is
in shame based PTSD and self-criticism. She has developed the use of compassion
based treatments including the use of compassionate imagery in shame based
flashbacks to enhance clinical practice in this field. She has widely contributed to the
dissemination of her clinical knowledge through writing and delivering clinical
workshops. She has authored many papers and book chapters on this topic.
Dr Joan Lovett
Joan Lovett, MD, FAAP is a behavioural paediatrician who has been in private
practice in Berkeley for the past 15 years. She is a Fellow of the American Academy
of Paediatrics and an EMDRIA Approved Consultant.
She is a graduate of Wellesley College, earned her medical degree at UCSF Medical
School, completed internship and residency at Montreal Children‟s Hospital and was
a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Stanford. Dr. Lovett is author of Small
Wonders: Healing Childhood Trauma with EMDR. She has given many presentations
on childhood trauma and attachment both nationally and internationally.
Gill Moreton
Gill began her professional career as a child and family social worker specialising in
child protection. In 1996 she was involved in the immediate response to the shootings
at Dunblane Primary School and in the establishment of the Support Centre where she
worked for the next five years in the multidisciplinary team providing a practical and
therapeutic service to those affected by the incident. Since then she has specialised in
the treatment of children and adults affected by trauma, and is trained in CBT and
EMDR. Previously, she was co-ordinator of a Child Sexual Abuse team within
CAMHS in NHS Lothian and continues to supervise colleagues there. Gill joined the
Rivers Centre for Traumatic Stress in June 2002 and is the lead clinician for work
with the Emergency Services.
Dr Michael C. Paterson OBE, PhD, DClinPsych, CPsychol, CSci, AFBPsS
Dr Michael Paterson OBE is a Clinical Psychologist based in Belfast specialising in
the treatment of multiply traumatised people.
He was invited by Dr Francine Shapiro, the originator of EMDR, to train with her as
an EMDR Institute Trainer. He joined the Institute‟s Faculty in 2006.
Always an advocate for EMDR, Michael sat on CREST in 2003 (Northern Ireland)
and played a key role in ensuring the recommendation of EMDR as an effective
treatment for PTSD in adults; the guidance from CREST subsequently fed into the
NICE (2005) deliberations.
Michael has authored a chapter in Healing the Heart of Trauma and Dissociation with
EMDR and Ego State Therapy and presented workshops on the subject.
Dr Paterson arranges trainings in EMDR in the United Kingdom and Ireland and,
more recently, delivered a Part 1 training to mental health professionals in Bosnia and
Herzegovina. This was part of the EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Programme.
Professor Mick Power
Mick Power is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. He
has previously worked as a clinical psychologist in the Maudsley Hospital and the
Institute of Psychiatry, and has worked as a research scientist for the Medical
Research Council and the World Health Organization. His main interests are in the

application of emotion theory to psychopathology, the links between emotion and
quality of life, and the adaptation of existing psychological therapies for specific
disorders.
Professor Suzanna Rose
Professor Suzanna Rose works for Berkshire Healthcare Foundation NHS Trust where
she is Head of Research and Development. She was the founder member of Berkshire
Traumatic Stress Service and was its leader from 1999-2007. She currently treats
patients there one day a week.
She has been a member of the British Red Cross since the age of eleven and, more
recently, became the elected Chairman of the Volunteers for Berkshire Red Cross.
She has worked as a Red Cross psycho-social advisor at disasters in the UK, Egypt,
Cyprus and Iraq.
She has published extensively and spoken at conferences in the UK, Europe, Canada
and the USA. For a list of publications please see www.rose-counselling.com
Dr Felicity de Zulueta , BSc. MA(Cantab), MBChB, FRCPsych, FRCP
Is a Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy and Lead clinician of the Traumatic
Stress Service in the Maudsley Hospital where she specialises in the assessment and
treatment of people suffering from complex PTSD and other psychiatric disorders
resulting from the effects of war, torture, rape and abuse of all types.
She is also an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Psychiatry, a biologist and
author of a book „From Pain to Violence, the traumatic origins of destructiveness‟
(2nd edition by John Wiley and Sons, 2006) where she outlines the case for PTSD to
be understood as an attachment disorder.
In the workshop on „Complex PTSD‟ Dr de Zulueta will outline her service‟s
multidisciplinary approach to the assessment and treatment of patients suffering from
the severe effects of childhood and adult traumatisation, with particular reference to
survivors of Child Sexual Abuse and refugees and she will illustrate the use of a
specific attachment test (TAIT) in time limited focused individual and group therapy.