Shiraz Farrand

Trustee: President

Shiraz is an EMDR Consultant and accredited CBT therapist working in the NHS primary care and private practice. She is an approved EDMR Recent/Group Traumatic Episode Protocol (RTEP/GTEP) trainer and sits on the RTEP/GTEP Executive International Committee.

Her special interest is in scaling up trauma treatment and is currently involved in research projects with humanitarian organisations in Low and Middle Income countries.

Shiraz is responsible for coordinating the work of Trauma Aid UK in line with its core mission to facilitate the development of EMDR in underserved communities by providing free training and supervision.

Matthew Wilcockson

Trustee: Hon. Secretary

Matthew is an EMDR therapist, consultant and facilitator working in the National Health Service and higher education, with a specialist interest in working with non-English speakers.

He is chair of the EMDR refugee special interest group. He has been an EMDR therapist for 15 years, and also a CBT therapist. He has volunteered as a supervisor and facilitator for Trauma Aid and its predecessors for 8 years.

He occasionally conducts research, particularly related to refugees and therapeutic processes.

Michael Tidbury

Trustee: Membership; Web site; Event Registrations; News Updates

Michael retired in 2017 after twenty years as a psychotherapist.

He ‘discovered’ EMDR in 2004 when he was studying for his MA and ADIP and never looked back. He said: “If only EMDR had been discovered earlier just think of how much suffering could have been prevented”.

He first joined Trauma Aid UK as a Trustee in 2010.

Michael looks after our Web site, News Updates, Memberships, Event registrations and the VSR.

Tom Tomaszewski

Trustee: CPD Coordinator

After several years as clinical manager at Charter, an addiction clinic in London, Tom went into private practice specialising in working with clients regarded as hard to treat. Interestingly, many of these people had succeeded in demanding, high-profile careers, particularly in the media and the art world. Tom’s work encourages improvisation, collectivity and whatever else it takes not to get stuck.

He has found that EMDR offers a novel and very effective way of approaching this kind of thing. His blog, Be Somebody Else, offers thoughts to therapists and members of the public looking for ways to move on from lives caught on repeat.

His role in Trauma Aid UK is CPD, in particular, that offered to our Volunteer Supervisors in recognition of their vital commitment to supporting Trauma Aid UK trained clinicians.

Sarah Bryan

Trustee

Sarah is a consultant Attachment and Trauma Therapist and has worked in Child and Adolescent Mental Health (NHS) and private practice for 25 years. She has training in both adult and child EMDR and training in child and family specific protocols; Theraplay and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy. She is also a qualified Occupational Therapist and has a special interest in sensory processing. She uses sensory processing strategies in her treatment of children with developmental trauma to help them improve their capacity to regulate.

Her special interest is in the impact of early life trauma on development. She has trained teachers, social workers and parents, helping them to understand the impact of early trauma and sharing strategies to help.

Her role in Trauma Aid is both as a Trustee and to develop workshops to assist therapists working with children and young people who have had their development interrupted by trauma events.