Dr Marc Boaz
Marc is an existential psychotherapist, a visiting Professor of Mental Health and Psychotherapy at the University of Northampton, UK, and teaches Critical Psychopathology at the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling (NSPC), UK. He is an author of works on interpersonal trauma, childhood adversity and neurodivergence.
Marc is a former member of the UK Trauma Council (hosted by the UK charity Anna Freud). He has a background in social research and social policy, having been a director in the UK charity and public sectors focusing on mental health, disability, health and youth. Marc has worked with Governments, public sector bodies and NGOs (in the UK, Europe, and internationally) on legislative and policy reform, approaches to research and insight, engagement and involvement, and service change.
Marc’s latest book explores psychotherapeutic approaches to working with people’s experiences of trauma: An Existential Approach to Interpersonal Trauma (Routledge, 2022), and is consolidated in his contribution to an edited collection on existential-phenomenological insights into post-traumatic growth (Routledge, forthcoming 2024/5).
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Upcoming events
UK Trauma Council Insight Series
Complex Trauma: Contextuality AND SYSTEMIC Factors
26th September 2024
05:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Online
Join our next webinar from the UK Trauma Council where Professor Claudia Bernard and Dr. Marc Boaz will explore contextuality and systemic factors relating to complex trauma.
We'll delve into the contextuality of a child, young person or family's needs and experiences, and how these intersect with wider systemic factors such as poverty, injustice, prejudice and parental or household experience of trauma.
A Pluralistic Approach to Trauma
7th International Conference on Pluralistic Counselling and Psychotherapy
The Pluralistic Practice Network, and Onlinevents, invite practitioners, researchers, students and people who use mental health services interested in the development of flexible, co-produced ways of working together in counselling, psychotherapy and mental health care, to take part in this engaging and welcoming annual event. A range of presentations and workshops will focus on the possibilities that are arise from open-ness to multiple perspectives when supporting individuals, families and communities to overcome issues arising from experience of trauma, adversity and oppression.