Booking for Nancy Borrett & Kate Forbes-Pitt

Dissociative Identity Disorder: Surviving the Unbearable

Nancy Borrett is a Consultant Psychotherapist at the Clinic for Dissociative Studies (CDS- UK), a national centre of expertise on dissociative disorders, where she has worked since 2011. She has longstanding experience of working with trauma-related dissociative disorders and has been involved in undertaking specialist assessment, developing training and managing referral enquiries at CDS since 2015. Coming from a background of music therapy within the NHS, Nancy has worked with adults, adolescents and children over many years in a variety of clinical settings, including inpatient psychiatry, disability and neurological rehabilitation. Her core approach is integrative, blending psychodynamic theory with an awareness of the impact of severe trauma on both mind and body. Nancy  has additional training in a number of specific trauma- focused modalities, is a member of the European Society for Trauma and Dissociation's training group and has been a visiting tutor to NHS teams and a number of Counselling and Psychotherapy training organisations in London, offering presentations on understanding and working with dissociative disorders.

Kate Forbes-Pitt came to psychotherapy from academia, where she researched and taught internationally. She holds a PhD in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences and worked in the London School of Economics, UCLA and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Lausanne). She joined CDS in 2016 where she works as a support therapist within therapy teams and as a researcher, more recently becoming involved in training. She has experience of working with DID, Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder and Otherwise Specified Dissociative Disorder (OSDD), both in the consulting room and community. Her recent British Journal of Psychotherapy paper.