The Heal Your Trauma Team

Dan Roberts is a Psychotherapist, Writer and Teacher and Founder of Heal Your Trauma. As an Advanced Accredited Schema Therapist, Trainer & Supervisor, he specialises in working with complex trauma, but helps people with a wide range of psychological problems at his private practice in North London. He also provides online therapy for people throughout the world, as well as teaching and writing about psychotherapy and healing complex trauma.

Dan draws from a wide range of proven, trauma-informed models in his work including schema therapy, internal family systems therapy, trauma-informed stablisation treatment, cognitive behaviour therapy and compassion-focused therapy, enriched by his long-term interest in mindfulness, compassion and Buddhism.

He launched the Heal Your Trauma project in 2021 to help people struggling with the impact of trauma. As a psychotherapist, Dan is passionate about helping trauma survivors, who often have to deal with a wide range of physical and mental health problems. The project involves guided meditations, webinars, workshops and self-help books, as well as Dan’s Blog, which you can read on this site.

Claire van den Bosch is Clinical Director of Heal Your Trauma. Claire is a UKCP-Accredited Psychotherapist, EMDR Practitioner and Level 2 IFS Therapist. She has been in the helping profession for over 25 years, having started as a peer educator and counsellor during the HIV/AIDS epidemic of the 80s and 90s. She then became a mentor for those in addiction recovery, before commencing a five-year training in psychotherapy in 2009. Claire takes a trauma-informed approach and works compassionately and creatively with addiction, dissociation, depression, anxiety and panic, phobias, obsessions, avoidance, body and food issues, control, shame and anger.

Her initial psychotherapy diploma from the CCPE was integrative-transpersonal, and she has since trained in EMDR, Attachment Informed-EMDR, Internal Family Systems, Polyvagal Theory, working with both intergenerational and pre-verbal trauma, and with functional and structural dissociation. Along with her own experience of recovery, Claire draws on all of these approaches, tailoring them to the needs of her clients.

She has a Masters in Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology from Oxford University and is a registered member of the UKCP, an Accredited EMDR practitioner and is trained to Level 2 as an IFS Therapist. Alongside her clinical practice, which includes consulting one day a week at The Recovery Centre, Claire is a Facilitator on Attachment-Informed EMDR training run by EMDR Focus and EMDR Insight, specialising in EMDR and Addictions. She has also been teaching for several years on the Gestalt and Addictions modules of the Psychotherapy Diploma at CCPE.

In 2021 Claire met her dear and greatly esteemed friend and colleague Dan Roberts and is delighted to be appointed as the Clinical Director of his Heal Your Trauma project.

Claire lives in East Surrey with her partner, their cat and motorbikes – and when they are not working they are usually to be found riding up and down Welsh or Scottish mountains or else the twisty country lanes closer to home, preferably with some wild swimming along the way.

Sophie Akbar is Creative Director of Heal Your Trauma. Sophie is the daughter of first-generation Pakistani immigrants who came to the UK in the sixties. Her family’s experience of trauma caused by displacement and loss during the partition of India and Pakistan still has repercussions for her and her siblings 75 years later.

Sophie has over 20 years of experience creating national and international events, spectacles, multidisciplinary festivals, young people’s theatre and community outreach projects. Between 2000 and 2014 Sophie was the Producer of Greenwich + Docklands Festivals (GDF), where she presented shows by some of the world's leading outdoor theatre companies.

While there she worked closely with the Mayor of London's team to deliver a range of cultural and celebratory festivals and events including Diwali, Eid, Vaisakhi, Chinese New Year, Africa Day, Liberty and The Trafalgar Square Arts Festival. She started her career in Barcelona where she founded A.C.T. theatre company, writing and producing original plays.

She is now returning to the work she loves after taking some time away to focus on her young children (the other work she loves).

Anna Rys is Heal Your Trauma’s Administrator, providing customer support with events and online webinars. She is a psychotherapist who works at NHS and WFCS charity as well as working with clients privately.

Anna belives that there is no one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to working with people's emotions. That is why she works across a range of different psychological and well-being techniques, including psychoanalysis, Gestalt, transactional analysis, existential therapy, and body psychotherapy.