Trainers
ISTDP-UK trainers are highly experienced clinicians who provide psychotherapy, as well as training and supervision. ISTDP-UK trainers and core training programmes are accredited by the International Association of Experiential Dynamic Therapies (www.iedta.net)
Alexandra Knowles
Alexandra Knowles is a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and IEDTA accredited ISTDP trainer.
Prior to her ISTDP specialisation she spent more than 30 years in private practice working with individuals and couples. During that time she also worked in The Arbours Therapeutic Communities and The Crisis Centre. She was also involved with the teaching and supervising of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists and for eight of the many years she spent on The Arbours Training Committee she was their Director of Training.
Following the first ISTDP Oxford Conference in 2006, hosted by David Malan, she joined the initial group of UK therapists to be trained in ISTDP by Patricia Coughlin, Jon Frederickson, Robert Neborsky and Josette ten have-de Labije. Since then she has spoken on her ISTDP work at various national and international lectures and conferences. Currently she devotes her time to her private practice where she works with individuals and couples, mainly seeing people for ‘block therapy’. In addition, she is involved in the teaching and supervising of ISTDP. Alexandra is an accredited IEDTA teacher and supervisor.
Sharon Lewis
Dr. Sharon Lewis (DClinPsych) is a chartered clinical psychologist & IEDTA accredited ISTDP trainer.
Dr. Sharon Lewis (DClinPsych) is a chartered clinical psychologist registered with the British Psychological Society and the Health and Care Professions Council. She is an IEDTA and ISTDP-UK accredited trainer and currently trains and supervises clinicians in ISTDP as well as having a private practice in Amersham, Buckinghamshire.
Dr Lewis originally trained in South Africa, and was clinical supervisor at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation in Johannesburg. Since 2004 she has worked in England, both in the NHS and in private practice. In 2006 Dr Lewis enrolled on an ISTDP core training with Rob Neborsky, Jon Frederickson and Patricia Coughlin. She subsequently attended several conferences and trainings with other leading clinicians in the field including Allan Abbass and Josette ten Have-de Labije. Having completed her ISTDP core training in 2010, Dr Lewis completed all the IEDTA requirements to be recognised as an IETDA Teacher and Supervisor of ISTDP.
Dr Robert Neborsky
Robert J. Neborsky, M.D., is a psychiatrist in private practice in Del Mar, California, and a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry.
Dr. Neborsky’s professional activities include training students in the techniques of his unique Attachment-Based Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (AB-ISTDP) and presenting at local, national and international symposia. He co-authored Short-Term Therapy for Long Term Change (Norton, 2001) and is a contributing author of Healing Trauma (Norton, 2003). In 2010, he edited and published The Collected Writings of Robert J Neborsky, MD along with The Collected Writings of Josette ten Have de Labije, (Itasca). In 2011, he co-authored Mastering Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy: A Roadmap to the Unconscious.
SHADOWERS (Trainers in Training)
ISTDP-UK shadowers (or “Trainers in Training”) are senior clinicians who have completed a 3-year core training in ISTDP and are undertaking further training to advance both their therapeutic and training skills.
Claire Alderton
Mimi Kester
Mimi Kester (2010 CORE Group) BA Hons, PGCE, Postgrad.Dip.Couns is a Senior Accredited Counsellor with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and has worked in the NHS in Primary and Secondary Care, for the Police and as a college Counsellor at Oxford University.
James Louis
He specialises in working with adults with a range of complex difficulties and is also endorsed by the General Medical Council in the treatment and management of mental health problems associated with physical health issues. In addition, he also provides training, consultation, and supervision to mental health professionals including trainee psychiatrists based both within and outside of the UK.
In addition to being a member of ISTDP UK and an Advanced Member of IEDTA, Dr James Louis is a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and also of the British Society of Clinical Hypnosis.
Leo Russell
Leo has a special interest in medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) and he has presented on this topic at various conferences and as part of the ISTDP-UK London Seminar Series. He has been fortunate to be involved in research on a wide range of topics including ISTDP, MUS, non-epileptic attack disorder, eating disorders, bipolar disorder, men’s mental health, and positive psychology.
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