Speakers

Dialectical Behavioural Therapy & Personality Disorder - Dr Janet Feigenbaum

Dr Janet Feigenbaum is an International consultant trainer in DBT for British Isles DBT Training. Janet is an Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology at University College London, strategic and clinical lead for the IMPART (Intensive Management of Personality disorders: Assessment and Recovery Team), and the lead for Evidence Based Practice in Psychological Therapies. Janet is director of the HEE funded Postgraduate Certificate in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Personality Disorder (PD) at UCL. Janet provides training, supervision, and consultation in DBT and PD service development in the UK, Ireland, and Europe.

Janet completed intensive training in DBT in Seattle with Marsha Linehan, the originator of DBT, in 1999/2000 while director of research for the Oscar Hill Service for PD where she led on a naturalistic RCT of the effectiveness of DBT in the NHS1. In 2003 she moved to North East London Foundation Trust and established one of the 11 National Pilot sites for interventions for personality disorder funded by the Department of Health (DDART; specialising in providing DBT and CBT for individuals with PD and co-morbid substance abuse). The service was successfully devolved across all four boroughs and widened the remit to become IMPART. In September 2012 IMPART was selected by NHS England as one of three UK IAPT SMI demonstration sites for the treatment of people with PD.

Janet was formerly chairman of the Board of Certification and Accreditation for the Society of DBT UK, and is now the chair of the Conference and CPD committee. In 2015 Janet and her co-applicants were awarded a five year NIHR programme grant to develop and evaluate DBT-Skills for Employment in the UK (EMPOWER)2. Over the past two years Janet has delivered national webinars on the delivery of DBT by telehealth, and on working with cognitions in DBT. Janet’s ongoing research interests include: evaluation of a stepped care pathway for individuals with a PD and high risk behaviour, development and evaluation of a DBT skills group programme for individuals with PD and comorbid bulimia, and evaluating the impact of Motivational Interviewing strategies on engagement in psychological treatment for individuals with PD.

1. Feigenbaum, J., Fonagy, P., Pilling, S., Bebbington, P., Jones, A., Wildgoose, A. (2012), ‘A Randomized Control Trial of the Effectiveness of DBT in the UK NHS’, British Journal of Clinical Psychology. 51(2), 121-141.

2. Feigenbaum, J. (2018) ‘Dialectical Behavioural Therapy Skills for Employment”, in Swales, M. A. Oxford University Hand book of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Compassion Focused Therapy & Parts - Dr Kate Lucre, PhD

(Compassion Focused Group Psychotherapy - Bringing compassion to parts work)

Dr. Kate Lucre is a Birmingham based Compassion Focused Therapist and Supervisor specialising in the use of CFT for complex attachment and relational trauma for groups and individuals. She runs workshops for the Foundation and across the UK on CFT for Groups and Compassion Focused Staff Support and Supervision. She has published the only data on Compassion Focused Group Psychotherapy for people who would attract a diagnosis of personality disorder and has recently completed a 7-year research program evaluating a 12-month CFGP program. Kate is also involved in a number of UK wide research projects developing and evaluating Compassion Focused Staff Support Initiatives. You can see some of her past presentations at www.researchgate.net/profile/Katherine_Lucre2.

Internal Family Systems: Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness - Dr Richard Schwartz, PhD

Dr. Richard Schwartz, PhD is the creator of Internal Family Systems, a highly effective, evidence-based therapeutic model that de-pathologizes the multipart personality. His IFS Institute offers training for professionals and the general public. Formerly an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago and later at Northwestern University, he is currently on the faculty of Harvard Medical School. He has published five books and is a sought-after presenter. For more, visit ifs-institute.com.

A Day on Parts - CPD Certificates & Recordings