Simon
Proudlock
EMDR Europe Trainer, Consultant and Supervisor
Registered as a Psychologist with the Health Professionals Council
- Studied and worked in both the UK and US
- Awarded the 2018 Practice Prize for Innovation by the British Psychological Society for his ground-breaking work using EMDR Therapy with individuals in an acute mental health crisis
- Awarded the 2012 Practice Prize Award by the British Psychological Society’s Division of Counselling Psychology for Distinctive Contribution to Counselling Psychology for work in Solution Focused Therapy
Qualifications:
EMDR Europe Accredited Trainer
Awarded Statement of Equivalence in Counselling Psychology
by the British Psychological Society
MSc. Mental Health Counselling
University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, US
Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology
Additional Training:
- Brief counselling therapy
- Distress and suicide – helping young people keep on an even keel
- Understanding eating disorders
- Understanding dreams – a phenomenological approach to dream counselling
- Working with individuals who self-harm
- Working with younger clients
- Supporting individuals with a personality disorder and complex needs
- Working with addictions (alcohol, drugs, gambling, sex, etc.)
- Systems therapy – working with couples and families
- Brief Anger Management Therapy
- Food Abuse – Supporting People who are over-weight
- Working with Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Body Dysmorphic Disorder
- Effective Strategies for the Assessment and Treatment of Anxiety Disorders
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) for Multi-Diagnostic Disorders
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Interpersonal Therapy
- Skills for clinical and case supervision
- Teaching Mindfulness Skills to Clients
- Compassion Focused Therapy
- EMDR for Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse
- Medico-Legal Training
- Psychoanalytical Energy Psychotherapy (includes Thought Field Therapy and Emotional Freedom Therapy)
- Cognitive Therapy for Panic Disorder
- Using EMDR to work with chronic depression
- The Psychological Management of Pain
- PTSD with Borderline Personality Traits from an Attachment Perspective: Implications of Treatment
- Using EMDR to treat OCD
- EMDR Children and Adolescent Training Part 1
- EMDR for Borderline Personality Disorder – The Progressive Approach
- EMDR for Suicidal and Self-harming Patients
- ‘Looking Through the Eyes’ – EMDR and Ego State work for Dissociation
- EMDR for Insomnia
- Single Session CBT
Presentations & Conferences:
- EMDR Europe Conference June 2016: Proudlock, S. & Hutchins, J – Using EMDR with individuals in an acute mental health crisis, The Hague, Netherlands.
- EMDR UK and Ireland Annual Conference March 2017: Proudlock, S., Hutchins, J. & Peris, J. – Using EMDR with individuals in an acute mental health crisis, London, UK
- British Psychological Society Annual Conference May 2017: Proudlock, S. and Peris, J. – Using EMDR Therapy with individuals in an acute mental health crisis, Brighton, UK
- EMDRIA Annual Conference August 2017: Proudlock, S. Using EMDR with individuals in an acute mental health crisis, Seattle, USA
- British Psychological Division of Clinical Psychology Annual Conference 2018: Proudlock, S. Using EMDR with individuals in an acute mental health crisis, Cardiff, UK
- EMDR Canada Annual Conference, 2019: Using EMDR with individuals in an acute mental health crisis, Vancouver, Canada
Areas of Expertise
- Extensive experience of working with individuals with learning disabilities and mental health needs both in a residential and an employment / vocational setting in both the USA and UK
- Instrumental in setting up Tapestry for Resource for Mental Health, the UK’s first Social Relationships Project for individuals recovering from a mental illness
- Previous experience as recruitment consultant for Justice Resource Institute, a large Massachusetts based social service agency
- Solution Focused Brief Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Working with individuals with Body Dysmorphic Disorder
- Working with individuals with a personality disorder
- Working with couples
- Working with trauma
- Clinical Supervision
- EMDR