Regel, Stephen

Stephen Regel is Principal Psychotherapist/Director of the Centre for Trauma, Resilience and Growth, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Honorary Professor in the School of Education, Nottingham University and a Senior Fellow of the Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham. Since 2002, he has been visiting therapist/consultant at the Family Trauma Centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He has over 30 years experience working with trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and his time is divided between clinical and teaching activities. He is on the Board of Overseers of the Children and War Foundation (www.childrenandwar.org), an advisor on family support for Hostage UK and a Trustee of Escaping Victimhood, a charity supporting families affected by homicide and other serious trauma.

He also consults and trains extensively with UK police forces on the provision of post trauma support. The Centre’s Peer Support Training package continues to be delivered to emergency services, Social Services Departments, Health Trusts, humanitarian aid organisations and various health/mental health professionals in the UK and abroad. He is also consultant/trainer to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) workplace post trauma peer support programme. Since 1997 he has been consultant to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) Reference Centre for Psychosocial Support. Assessment and training missions for the IFRC have included assignments in Korea, Japan, Estonia, Kenya, Somalia, Russia, Scandinavia, Uganda, Sri Lanka and following the conflict in Georgia. Since 2005, he has been part of the British Red Cross Psychosocial Support Team, assisting UK nationals affected by incidents abroad.In 2000/2001 he acted as consultant to the UNHCR peer support programme in Kosovo.

He has been involved with Victim Support in the UK since 1988 and acted advisor/trainer to Victim Support’s now established National Homicide Service. He is the co-author (with Stephen Joseph), of Post Traumatic Stress: The facts (Oxford University Press) written for sufferers and families, but also for other professionals e.g. GPs, nurses, the emergency services and counsellors. He was appointed an OBE in 2013 for services to victims of trauma.