David Trickey
David Trickey is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Co-Director of the UK Trauma Council. He has specialised in working clinically with traumatised children, young people, and their families since 2000, particularly following domestic abuse and family homicide. He continues to focus on direct clinical work, as well as the training, supervision and support of others. He is the clinical team lead for a multi-disciplinary specialist service for Children in Care. He was a member of the committee responsible for the 2018 revision of the NICE Guidelines for PTSD. In all of his roles he draws heavily on the research literature.
Rachel Hiller
Rachel Hiller is Professor in Child & Adolescent Mental Health at UCL and head of postgraduate studies at Anna Freud. She leads the Child Trauma & Recovery research group, which focuses on co-developed research on the mental health and wellbeing of care-experienced young people. This work uses multiple methods to improve how we understand, identify, and support the mental health needs of young people in care and care leavers. Rachel is on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee for the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
Kim Golding
Kim Golding is a Clinical Psychologist living in Worcestershire, UK. Kim worked with children and families within the NHS for thirty years, specialising in working with parents or carers to develop their parenting skills tailored to the needs of the children they are caring for. Kim now works independently providing therapy, training, consultation and supervision.
Kim is a certified DDP trainer and is involved in accrediting and training other professionals in DDP. She is also a director of the Community Interest Company: ‘DDP Connects UK’. Kim is author of a range of books focused on the parenting of children who have experienced developmental trauma, including ‘Nurturing Attachments’ and ‘Everyday parenting with security and love’. She has additionally developed two DDP-informed programmes. ‘The Nurturing Attachments Training Resource’; and ‘Foundations for Attachment Training Resource’. Kim co-authored: ‘Healing Relational Trauma with Attachment-Focused Interventions’ with Dan Hughes and Julie Hudson, published December 2018 and ‘The Healing Relational Trauma Workbook with Dan Hughes published February 2024.
In 2020 Kim was awarded a CBE for services to children and young people.
Alistair Black
Professor Alastair Black is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist. He is the Clinical Lead for Child and Young Person Trauma in the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust and part of the Regional Trauma Network. Alastair leads the Children and Young People’s Trauma Service. This service provides specialist trauma consultation, supervision, training and joint treatment collaboratively with a wide range of clinical teams across the Belfast Trust.
Alastair is a BABCP Accredited Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist, Accredited BABCP Clinical Trainer and BABCP Accredited Clinical Supervisor. He is an UKCP Registered Psychotherapist and an EMDR Europe Approved Adult Consultant, EMDR Europe Approved Child Consultant and EMDR International Association Training Facilitator.
Alastair believes strongly in the importance of evidence based approaches combined with child and young person centred practice that is developmentally informed. He has a special interest in the area of ‘man made’ traumas including the impact of terrorism and conflict and teaches on a number of courses, lectures nationally and internationally and has provided consultations to a range of government bodies on psychological trauma.