20 Ways to Break Free from Trauma

‘An important and insightful contribution to the mental health literary landscape.’ – Alastair Campbell

Publications

I have published several papers on my special interest of trauma, and contributed chapters to relevant publications. Also listed here are essays, articles and letters to the press.

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‘How Trauma Closes the Lid on Truth’ in the Church Times July 2025

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‘Elon Musk is wrong about empathy’ in the Church Times May 2025

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‘What does trauma look like in everyday life and how can churches offer support?’ in the Church Times April 2025

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‘Mind over body: the trouble with treating chronic conditions’ in The Guardian 7 March 2025

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‘When Trauma Hides in Plain Sight’, in Therapy Today magazine December 2024/January 2025 edition (BACP)

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‘Five Lessons I’ve Learned on Trauma’, British Psychological Society 21 November 2024

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‘Good psychotherapists will welcome statutory regulation’, in The Guardian 25 October 2024

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‘Therapy, the Body and Time’, in The Change Process in Psychotherapy During Troubling Times edited by Sue Wright (2022, Routledge).

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‘Getting to the essence: truth seeking in psychotherapy’ in The Change Process in Psychotherapy During Troubling Times edited by Sue Wright (2022, Routledge).

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Working up to the Wire’ (2019, New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relationship Psychoanalysis 13-2). This discusses how endings can be used as catalysts in the psychotherapy process.

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Borders and Boundaries: body-centred sensorimotor interventions with trauma survivors and migrants at St Martin-in-the Fields.

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The Impact of Trauma, Primary and Secondary: How do we look after ourselves? (2008, British Journal of Psychotherapy Integration) Based on a training programme for GPs working with asylum seekers and refugees,