CDS UK Consultant Psychotherapist Nancy Borrett and Clinical Director Emma Jack have now completed their four-day training with senior mental health clinicians from Somerset NHS Foundation Trust. It was a real privilege to share knowledge, experience and ideas with the aim of improving mental health provision for people with DID and other dissociative disorders.
The training was underpinned by some fundamental principles such as compassion, collaboration and maximising on clients’ felt sense of safety within services. They explored ways of working with different dissociative identities, assessing risks and the management of complex safeguarding dilemmas. The input from a former CDS patient with lived experience of DID was a powerful contribution to the training and hugely appreciated by everyone.
Nancy and Emma really enjoyed having time to think together and reflect on this incredibly rewarding and often challenging area of work. The clinicians in Somerset were very enthusiastic and engaged, with some fantastic ideas.
CDS UK hope to continue to offer training to NHS trusts all over the UK to support the nationwide development of dissociation and DID-informed practice.
