Clinical Lead
Integrate Families
Huddersfield, United Kingdom
BIOGRAPHY
Renée Potgieter Marks received her PhD degree in 1996 at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Renée originally worked as a Medical Social Worker in South Africa in Child Psychiatry at a hospital in Pretoria, after which she started with private practice. After completing her research in child abuse in England, the Netherlands and various child abuse centres in the USA, Renée established a one stop centre for abused children in Pretoria. She headed the centre until she emigrated to the UK in 2001.
In England Renée worked initially as a training officer and later as a deputy manager in an Adoption Team at a Local Authority. In 2006, Renée founded Integrate Families where she presently works as a therapist and clinical lead. Renée and her team of therapists specialises in children and adolescents with attachment difficulties, complex trauma and dissociation who display significant emotional, social, and behavioural difficulties and/or are struggling with mental health problems. Integrate Families is also the National Centre for Child Trauma and Dissociation in England.
Renée is chair of the Child and Adolescent Committee of the ESTD since 2011 and was involved in developing the ESTD Guidelines for the Assessment and Treatment of Children and Adolescents with Dissociative Symptoms and Dissociative Disorders. She published 10 chapters in books printed in the USA, England and Europe and is also co-author with Valerie Sinason of the book Treating Children with Dissociative Disorders: Attachment, Trauma, Theory and Practice (2022). Renée also published 17 articles in Newsletters, and Journals in England and Europe.
Renée was member of the ISSTD and the Child and Adolescent Committee until 2021. She became a Fellow of the ISSTD in 2012 and received the Cornelia Wilbur award from the ISSTD in 2015.
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Saturday, April 15, 2023
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM US Eastern Time