2025 presenters

See the 2025 speakers and presentations

Credentialling

NCC AP continuing education units

Deirdre Boyd

Recovery pioneer, CEO of DB Recovery+

Stephen Campbell, OHID

Lived experience - and building partnerships

Markkus Trew

Referencing the Minnesota Model

Gabriel Wynn HCPC Reg, AFBPsS, FHEA, MBACP

BACP Addictions Competence Framework

Professor John Kelly

Harvard University, Recovery Research Institute

Professor Gail Gilchrist PhD

Reduce intimate partner violence in the context of substance use

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

“But how do I save my marriage?”

Jim Holsomback MA, ABT

McLean Hospital Supporting families in recovery

Claudia D Schwarz MFT

Self-diagnosis, online sites and misinformation

Martin Peters BA (Hons),

Dip HE, Dip RN, CSAT III, ACRPS, AACC Evidence-based culturally sensitive model of treatment

Obi Unaka BSc (Hons), MCMI, APMAP, ACRPS, SACC

Evidence-based culturally sensitive model of treatment

Emily Alden Hennessy PhD

Asst Professor, Harvard Medical School; Handbook of Recovery capital

Edward Day BA, BM, BCh, DM, MRCPsych

UK government recovery champion

Professor Liz Gilchrist MA, MPhil, PhD,

HCPC Reg Forensic Psychologist, AF BPS

Sue Critchley MBACP

BACP Addictions Competence Framework

Daniel Gerrard

Effectively market your addiction rehab/ service

Anita Chellamah-Nurse

Trauma and addiction

Jaime Vinck, MC, LPC, NCC, CEIP

Trauma-informed leadership

Johan Sorensen

Ethics of rehab marketing

Sarah Buchanan MA, MBACP

Embodied countertransference as a healing aid in addiction recovery

Dr Fergus Law BSc, MBChB, FRCPsych

Handling the most difficult detoxes

Venetia Leonidaki HCPC, BPS, BABPC, BPC

Evidence-based treatment for gambling disorder

Lisa Newman

Detoxify from sugar+substitutes

Chris Lomas

Neurobiology of talking therapy

Tessa Corner MPhil, BSc, PGD

The science of addiction

Woody Albrow

Lived experience - and building partnerships

Will Haydock

Lived experience - and building partnerships

Radha Allen

Lived experience - and building partnerships

Tim Sampey

Lived experience - and building partnerships

Alex Fontaine MBE

Compere / MC

Michael Rawlinson

Compere / MC

Philip Fisher

DBR ambassador

Steve Broughton

Registration, troubleshooting

Liz Martin MSc MBACP AP APM

Welcoming delegates

Lunch

Refreshments 8am, 11am, 3.30pm

Refreshments in exhibitor room

12-step meetings

Evening reception

DB Recovery+ McLean Recovery Awards