Consultant Trainer
Dr Christine Dunkley is a consultant trainer with the British Isles DBT training team. She has a Doctorate in Clinical Practice from the University of Southampton and 30 years’ experience in the NHS as a medical social worker (since 1982) and psychological therapist (since 1994.
Christine qualified as a DBT therapist in 2002, and now has over 20 publications on mindfulness, DBT, suicide risk, skills assessment, and emotion regulation. Her research paper on emotional pain communication in suicidal patients topped the ‘most read’ chart of the International Association for suicide prevention for over a year. It remains in the top 5% of research papers ever tracked by Altmetric. Her co-authored mindfulness books are available in four languages. She has published in UK, European and American journals.
In 2012 she retired from NHS work to concentrate on training. She has lectured in capital cities such as Paris, Warsaw, Brussels, Vilnius and Dublin, as well as the Channel Islands and as far afield as New Zealand. She has consulted to teams of mental health professionals across the UK and Ireland, she has also been involved in the training of new DBT trainers at the Linehan Institute in Seattle. She gave an exemplar teaching session on emotion regulation at the International DBT Trainers’ meeting in 2019 that was met with critical acclaim.
She has a shared learning contributor award from NICE for a primary care project, and sat on the Expert Reference group for Personality Disorders at UCL.. In 2012 she co-founded the Society for DBT with Stephen Palmer, and she was its first chair. She was awarded a Fellowship in 2016 for her services to the society.
Her latest book Regulating Emotion the DBT Way was published by Routledge in October 2020.