Complex Trauma: The Tavistock Model by Dr Jo Stubley

Complex Trauma: The Tavistock Model. A phase based multi-modal service held within a psychoanalytic frame.

The Tavistock Trauma Service works in a trauma-informed manner using a phase-based approach of stabilisation and safety, trauma processing, and reintegration and reconnection. All of this is held within a psychoanalytic frame. The lecture will offer an understanding of the different kinds of complex trauma presentations seen in the Tavistock Trauma Service and will use amalgamated clinical examples to illustrate the adaptations to the psychoanalytic stance that may be required.

About the speaker: Dr Jo Stubley is a Consultant Medical Psychotherapist and Psychoanalyst at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. She joined the Tavistock Trauma Service in 1998 and has been the lead clinician since 2008. She is a member of the British Psychoanalytic Society and is trained in Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (tf-CBT), Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) and MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD. Dr Stubley is Co-Chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Expert Reference Group on non-recent child sexual abuse. She is an honorary lecturer at University College London, has written widely on trauma and teaches nationally and internationally. She is co-editor of “Complex Trauma: the Tavistock Model” with Linda Young, published in 2022, which has been nominated for a Gravida Award.

This event will be of use to therapeutic practitioners and trainees, but is also open to non-professionals.

Host or Publisher The Stockwell Centre