3^rd International Conference on Depression, Anxiety and Stress Management June 21-22, 2017 London, UK

David has worked in community based mental health services for over thirty years in a career spanning the UK voluntary sector, local authority services, and the NHS. From 2002 – 2005 he led on the Delivering Race Equality Action Plan in across Central and North West London NHS trusts, one of the UK’s largest mental health trusts at the time, delivering a range of mental health services across several London boroughs.. He recently set up somefreshthinking (somefreshthinking.com) an health sector change management consultancy. He is currently working on developing access to voluntary sector services for people with mental health problems from BAME communities with OCD Action, PLIAS Resettlement and the Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea BME Health Forum

His research interest relate to access to voluntary sector services for people with mental health problems from BAME communities with OCD Action, PLIAS Resettlement and the Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea BME Health Forum

Tores Theorell is professor emiritus at Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute. I am a physician who defended my dissertation in 1971 at the Karolinska Institute with my thesis on Life events in relation to myocardial infarction. I practiced clinical internal medicine and cardiology 1967-1978 and social medicine 1978-1980. I was Professor at the National Institute for Psychosocial Factors and Health (the institute later transformed to the Stress Research institute at the Stockholm University) in 1981.

Denny Meyer is a professor in the School of Health Sciences at the Swinburne University of Technology. She is an applied statistician who specialises in the area of mental health research. Her areas of particular interest include suicide ideation, vision loss, stress and the analysis of data collected using online systems with high attrition rates. She has published more than 100 papers in reputed journals and has worked with research teams on numerous research grants and tenders

I have worked as a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist from 2004 and am accredited as an EMDR consultant from 2008 to 2018.I have also trained in sensorimotor psychotherapy. I have been a member of the UK and Ireland EMDR association since 2002 and was a member of the European Conference organizing committee for the London Conference and the Child and Adolescent Committee. I have presented at their AGMs in Glasgow, Manchester, Dublin and at the European conferences in Paris and London. I have presently widely in the fields of trauma, neglect and the developing brain, attachment disorders, personality disorders, emotional dysregulation in ADHD and ASD diagnosis and management. I first presented on this model at the ISSTD 28th Annual conference in Montreal November 2011. Recent articles on the clinical effectiveness of BART psychotherapy have been published to complement the book, The Art of BART which was published by Karnac books in London and is available in print and as an eBook from Amazon and karnacbooks.com.