SPEAKER 

Dr Deborah Lee
Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Honorary Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology, University College London

Dr Deborah Lee is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Head of Berkshire Traumatic Stress Service and South Central Complex Treatment Service for Veterans. She is also an honorary Associate Professor at University College London. She is author of the Compassionate-Mind Guide to Recovering from Trauma and PTSD: Using Compassion-Focused Therapy to Overcome Flashbacks, Shame, Guilt, and Fear (2013). New Harbinger, New York.

Dr Lee has worked in the field of trauma for 28 years and specialises in the treatment of Complex PTSD. 

Her particular area of clinical and research interest is in shame- based PTSD and self-criticism. She has pioneered the use of developing compassionate resilience as part of a phased based treatment approach to complex PTSD and has collaborated with Professor Paul Gilbert, the originator of compassion Focused Therapy for 20 years.

She has widely contributed to the dissemination of her clinical knowledge through writing and delivering over 200 workshops and talks in North America, Europe, Japan and Australia.