Regional Support Group
ABOUT
EMDR WEST MIDLANDS
We are the West Midlands Regional EMDR Support Group, a regional member of the national association of EMDR UK and Ireland. Our mission is to provide affordable training, support and information to professionals who use EMDR in the West Midlands region.
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Our workshops, and Practice Discussion Groups, are intended to provide education on all matters relating to EMDR particularly recent research, to foster best professional practice and promote the work of the Association. We also encourage networking, developments of special interest groups, and updating of EMDR research.
MEET THE COMMITTEE
EMDR West Midlands is run by a team of dedicated volunteers, each experts in EMDR in their own right. Find out more about our committee members below.
If you would like to join in and shape the future of our Support Group
- get in touch wit Angela
DAVID PIKE
Chair
David qualified as a Clinical Psychologist in 1972 at Birmingham University. In David's professional career he started in Adult Mental Health, but he has also worked in many other settings outside Psychology. After running an Out-patient Project in Heartlands Hospital in 1989 David worked in the Pain Clinic at Selly Oak Hospital for many years. Since then David has worked in other Pain Clinics, in a Burns Unit and set up Psychology Department to a Head Injury unit at Cannock Hospital before entering private practice to do Medico-legal Personal Injury assessments.
David trained with Derek Farrell when he set up his first EMDR Masters programme at Birmingham University, being accredited as an EMDR practitioner in 2012. His specialities are Complex-PTSD, Chronic Pain and Medically Unexplained Symptoms. He is now concentrating on supervision, training and research. David's role on the committee is to co-ordinate committee meetings and liaise with EMDR Association UK
MARYANN RICHARD
Treasurer
Maryann is an EMDR Europe Approved Consultant and Integrative therapist with 30 years experience working with adults, children and adolescents. She has worked in the NHS in a GP based Counselling Service and in Hospice work and now work privately seeing a wide variety of clients who come with trauma, relationship, health, and mental health issues.
Maryann worked for 9 years in South Asia raising a family, teaching nurses and community workers counselling skills for people with leprosy and spinal injuries and helped Humanitarian Aid workers and their children cope with the stresses and strains of living abroad in the developing world where there are fewer health resources.
A special interest of Maryann's is working with people who have grown up cross-culturally and/or lived or worked cross-culturally. Whilst most people feel very privileged to have lived abroad, there are particular issues that arise in these situations when people integrate into their new country such as: loneliness, isolation, bullying & coping with the traumas they may have seen or experienced whilst abroad. All of these and others can greatly inhibit and upset their lives and relationships.
Maryann is an experienced Clinical Supervisor and Supervise EMDR trainees, practitioners and Consultants. She particularly enjoys supervising CAMHS groups and is very excited as she sees the next generation of EMDR therapists develop personally and professionally.
ANGELA JOHNSON
Secretary
Angela is an EMDR Accredited Practitioner and a BABCP Accredited Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, working in independent practice. She has over 15 years experience in counselling and therapy, originally training in Transactional Analysis. She has a MA in Community Education, and is a qualified youth and community worker, having worked for many years in community development within the NHS and the charity sector.
Angela works with a wide range of clients and presentations. She is also a senior associate with HBDCA, a charity offering psychological support within the bleeding disorder community.