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Oenone Dudley
Regional Group & SIG Co-Ordinator, Trustee & Volunteer
I am a clinical psychologist, EMDR consultant and training facilitator. I worked in the NHS for 29 years until 2020. I am passionate about the NHS as well as EMDR and I continue to supervise staff trained in EMDR in a number of NHS Trusts across the country. In the NHS I worked mainly in the area of adult mental health and managed a large secondary care service. I also led the community psychosis service. I have trained in a number of models including group analytic therapy, CAT, CBT, CBT for psychosis, Family Intervention for psychosis as well as EMDR. I discovered that EMDR was the most effective therapy for treating trauma, which is very prevalent in this client group. I led on the development of the EMDR competence framework published by UCL in 2021 which has provided the platform for rolling out EMDR training in the NHS for IAPT, perinatal and adult community services. I lived in France for 10 years and was the clinical research coordinator of a pan European scientific project on Prader-Willi syndrome, a rare neurodevelopemental genetic disorder.
Why did you choose to train (or retrain) in EMDR therapy?
It was not really a choice in fact. My manager had unexpectedly been awarded funding to train a group of 30 people and she needed staff to take up the places. I was very cynical about EMDR at the time but found through my own experience and applying it to my clients that it was a real game changer.
What is your favourite place on the planet?
So hard to choose one but the first place that comes to mind is where I used to live in France, swimming in the Mediterranean in late October when the sea is still fantastically warm and all the tourists have left.