Faculty - DB Recovery Plus

Exchange international expertise + contacts

Our world class experts have vast experience of direct work with clients and/or have published relevant academic or practical works.

Below are some 2024 presenters – more to be added.

Credentialling

NCC AP continuing education units

Deirdre Boyd

Recovery pioneer, CEO of DB Recovery+

Dan Carden MP

Reducing stigma of recovery

Rt Hon Kit Malthouse MP

Addiction recovery policy updates

Claudia T Schwarz MFT

The role of trauma in addiction and recovery

Dr Reuben Vaisman-Tzachor

PhD, FACFEI, DABPS, FAPA, DABCHS ~ Drugs in terrorism: from funding to PTSD

Ray Baker MD, FCFP, FASAM

University of British Columbia; effectiveness of recovery organisations

Dr Judith Mohring

Consultant psychiatrist - ADHD, mental health and addiction

Dr Niall Campbell

Spirituality in addiction recovery

Paula Hall MBACP (Accred), UKCP Reg, COSRT Acc, ATSAC

Sex addiction recovery

Jagoda Perzanowska Mphil, PGDip Psych

Technology in behavioural addictions

Professor Mark Petticrew

Strategies used by the addictive industries - tobacco, alcohol, gambling

Professor John Kelly

Harvard University, Recovery Research Institute

Farideh Banafshei MBACP

The role of trauma in addiction and recovery

Jim Holsomback MA, ABT

McLean Hospital Supporting families in recovery

Edward Day BA, BM, BCh, DM, MRCPsych

UK government recovery champion

Jeane Coetzee

Assess+manage suicide risk

Don Lavender BA MDiv

Family systems in addiction and recovery

Annemarie Ward

UK Recovery Walk: making recovery visible

David Sidwick

Police and crime commissioner

Dr Bobby Smyth

MB BCh BAO MRCPsych PhD ~ Helping young people into recovery

Michele Morphitis MA

Spirituality in addiction recovery

Shinasa Shahid MA, BA

Culturally optimised treatment

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe

Policy advocacy: sugar addiction

Siobhan Alford

Assess+manage suicide risk

Matt Thomas

Lee Fernandes

Technology in behavioural addictions

Prof Geoffrey M Reed PhD

Director, Columbia Uni-WHO Center for Global Mental Health

Melissa Rice

Policy adviser to Dan Carden MP

Philip Fisher

Troubleshooter

Mary Somerville

Mindfulness & NLP practitioner

Steve Broughton

Registration Day 2, troubleshooting

Lunch

Refreshments 8am, 11am, 3.30pm

Refreshments in exhibitor room

12-step meetings

Evening reception

DB Recovery+ McLean Recovery Awards