Beyond Talk Therapy: New Approaches to Trauma Conference

Dr. Dolores Mosquera

Director, Institute for the Study of Trauma and Personality Disorders (INTRA), Spain

Dr. Mosquera is one of the world’s foremost experts on complex trauma, dissociation, and personality disorders. Her work integrates EMDR therapy with structural dissociation theory, and she has trained clinicians internationally in working with clients who have experienced severe relational and developmental trauma. She is the author of multiple books on trauma, personality, and EMDR practice.

Dr. Derek Farrell

Reader in Clinical Psychology, Northumbria University

Dr. Farrell is a clinical psychologist and leading researcher in trauma-focused practice and EMDR. His research spans complex PTSD, individual and group-based trauma interventions, and the application of EMDR across a range of clinical presentations. He brings both rigorous research knowledge and extensive clinical experience to his work.

Dr. David Erritzoe

Clinical Researcher, Centre for Psychedelic Research, Imperial College London

Dr. Erritzoe is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Imperial College London, where he heads the Centre for Psychedelic Research and directs the NHS-based CIPPRes Clinic. His research focuses on the neuromechanisms and therapeutic potential of psychedelics — including psilocybin, MDMA, and ketamine — across conditions such as depression, OCD, chronic pain, and eating disorders. Among the most cited scientists globally (top 0.1%, Clarivate), his work sits at the frontier of what's currently possible in mental health treatment.

Katherine Rothman

Dance Movement Psychotherapist, Edinburgh

Katherine Rothman is a Dance Movement Psychotherapist who works with adults from a range of backgrounds in Edinburgh. Her approach is integrative, drawing from different psychotherapeutic models, while supporting clients to understand their bodily emotional signals which may impact work, social, and private lives.

Joey Chan

Art Psychotherapist

Joey Chan is an HCPC-registered Art Psychotherapist with a warm, relational, and trauma-informed approach. Her practice centers on connection, safety and the therapeutic relationship, supporting people to explore feelings, identity, relationships and life experiences through art-making and reflection. She has experience working with individuals and groups across community, education, healthcare, and outreach settings. Joey is interested in how creativity can offer a gentle way to connect with ourselves and others, especially when experiences are difficult to put into words.

Leonor Rodriguez

Lecturer in Psychological Research Methods

Leonor has a background in Clinical and Health Psychology. Originally from Costa Rica, she worked as a clinical psychologist focused on children and families experiencing chronic illness. In 2011 she moved to Ireland to complete her PhD in Child and Youth Research. Her research focused on the experiences of adjustment of adolescents to parental cancer. Leonor worked for over 10 years as a mixed methods researcher in different fields focused on child and young people’s mental health, empathy development, family support, educational attainment and wellbeing. Leonor has a special interest in research methods and ethics, particularly focused on children and young people. She completed a Higher Diploma in Data Analytics and Visualisation in 2021. She became a Lecturer in Psychological Research Methods in 2024. Leonor’s research is focused on terminal and non-terminal cancer as well as young people’s experiences of death, loss and bereavement.

Śukrī Devi

Ishaya monk, Founder of Meditation Changes Lives

Śukrī Devi has been an Ishaya monk since 2015 and is the founder of Meditation Changes Lives. She has taught meditation across the UK and Europe, working with the NHS, the Royal Academy of Music, Goldsmiths University, and the Musicians' Union, where she runs weekly sessions. She recently relocated to Edinburgh after eighteen years as a professional violinist in London.

Seema Hingorany

Clinical Psychologist, EMDR therapist, and trauma specialist

Seema Hingorany is a Clinical Psychologist, EMDR therapist, and trauma specialist based in Mumbai, India, with a focus on personality and dissociative disorders. She has presented research internationally across Asia and beyond, contributed to a volume edited by Francine Shapiro, the founder of EMDR, and was acknowledged by Shapiro for her contributions to the field. Her clinical work spans depression, trauma, attachment, and childhood adversity, including field work with child flood survivors in Kashmir. She is also the author of Beating the Blues, the first book on depression written by an Indian clinician. She is currently training under Dolores Mosquera, who you will hear from earlier in the day, in dissociation and complex trauma.