Consultant Medical Psychotherapist & Psychoanalyst
Tavistock Trauma Service
Dr Joanne Stubley MBBS FRCPsych is a Consultant Medical Psychotherapist at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. Whilst originally from Perth, Western Australia, she completed her medical training there before moving to the United Kingdom to train first as a psychiatrist and then as a psychoanalyst. During her training she worked in the Cassel hospital - a psychoanlaytic therapeutic community and then with Anthony Bateman in his outpatient service where mentalisation therapy (MBT) was developed. Joanne joined the Tavistock Trauma Service in 1998 when it was originally run by Caroline Garland and then has been the lead clinician since 2008. The Trauma Service is a psychoanalytically informed National Health Service outpatient program which offers individual and a variety of group therapies. Therapies include mentalisation based groups, art therapy, psychoeducation groups, yoga and gardening. The patient group is primarily complex and developmental trauma.
Joanne 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 a Clinical Trustee at the human rights charity Freedom from Torture and an honorary lecturer at University College London. She 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 in the best-edited book category.
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Friday, April 14, 2023
8:30 AM – 5:00 PM US Eastern Time