Chris Lomas

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT CHRIS LOMAS

Senior integrative psychotherapist and psychologist with lengthy background in clinical management, psycho-educational delivery, research and supervision. Specialist in psychotherapeutic interventions for trauma and addiction. Leading researcher focussing on leveraging neurobiological insights into psychological treatment frameworks.Head of Therapy & Programme at Delamere the UK’s first purpose built behavioural change facility. Formerly Lecturer/Programme Lead on the MSc (Advanced) Counselling & Psychotherapy course, University of Salford.25+ Years of teaching mindfulness, movement and breath-work practices; lineage holder in Tibetan Buddhist (གངས་ཅན་སྟོན་པའི་གསུང་ཆེན) and Taoist practices (;). Long term Qigong Teacher, Senior Yoga teacher (Yoga Professionals Alliance), breath-work teacher and qualified Yoga Therapist.Post-grad level training/accredited in a range of modalities; Jungian/psychodynamic/Depth Psychology, Clinical Hypnotherapy (DCH), Clinical Psychophysiology & Biofeedback (Dip.RespPsych)Psycho-Systems Analysis (Dip.PSA), Neuro-Psychoanalysis (NPSA(Clinical Fellow)). Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (Dip.CBT.Prof). MSc in PsychologyMSc in Advanced Counselling & Psychotherapy (with Supervision).Experienced integrative traumatologist: EMDR level 4 training & 7 months Traumatic Stress Certification lead by Dr Van Der Kolk.Researcher with a range of published works centring on leveraging neuroscience to support psychological interventions.Fellow with the National Council of Integrative Psychotherapists; FNCIP (registered supervisor)Senior Accredited member of the British Association for Counsellors & Psychotherapists; BACP (Snr.Accred) Accredited Member with the National Hypnotherapy Society; MHS(Accred).Member and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society FMBPsS AFBPsSClinical Fellow with the Neuro-Psychoanalytical Association; NSPA(Clin Fellow).Member of Association for Respiratory Technology & Physiology ARTP. Trauma specialist on the Trauma Research Foundations registry. Senior Yoga Teacher with Yoga Professionals Alliance SYT (Diploma Yoga Teacher; Certified Kundalini, Certified Meditation, Certified Yoga Therapist)Consultant on the NCIP’s ethics committee during its rewriting of the Ethical Guidelines alongside helped reformulate the associations complaints process. Worked on the NCIP’s Training & Professional Standards Team, ensuring professional standards were maintained. Sat on the International Association of Counsellors and Psychologists curatorium board.