Deborah Lee, PhD, is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Head of Berkshire Traumatic Stress Service and OPCOURAGE Integrated Services for Veteran Mental Health for the South East of England.  She is also an honorary Associate Professor in the Department of Clinical Psychology at University College London. Dr. Lee has worked in the field of trauma for 32 years and specializes in the treatment of PTSD and Complex PTSD. Her clinical and research interests include working with shame and self-loathing in the context of interpersonal trauma. She has pioneered the development of compassion focused therapy for trauma and complex PTSD and authored the best selling self help book, The Compassionate-Mind Guide to Recovering from Trauma and PTSD: Using Compassion-Focused Therapy to Overcome Flashbacks Shame, Guilt, and Fear (2013). Dr. Lee is also interested in using her model to enhance existing exposure-based trauma memory techniques such as EMDR, prolonged exposure, enhanced reliving, imagery rescripting. More recently she has developed a group-based intervention called “compassionate resilience” to be delivered as part of phased based treatment approaches for CPTSD. The approach is being used as part of a current RCT treatment trial evaluating phased and non-phased cognitive therapy for CPTSD. Dr. Lee has widely contributed to the dissemination of her clinical program through writing and delivering clinical workshops, keynote addresses, and podcasts in North & South America, Europe, Japan, and Australia.