Executive committee
Igor Pietkiewicz
President (2023 - 2024)
Chair of the Membership committee (2021 - )
Chair of the Research Committee (2017 - 2020)
Psychotherapist, supervisor, researcher. Associate Professor at the Department od Psychology,
SWPS University of Social Sciences & Humanities (Katowice, Poland) and Director of the Research Centre for Trauma & Dissociation
Claire Harrison-Breed
Secretary (2018- )
Board representative for the Children and Young People Committee
Consultant Psychotherapist, Supervisor, Academic
Director of Broad Horizons Psychotherapy Centre
Senior Lecturer at The University of Northampton
Desiree Tijdink
Treasure (2021-)
Education committee (2021 - )
Psychiatrist, psychotherapist, family therapist, trainer (speciality diagnostic dissociative disorders), supervisor.
Working in the Netherlands at GGZ Centraal (community mental organisation) at the TRTC Transit (Top Referent Trauma Center for complex PTSD and dissociative disorders) located in Ermelo.
Board members
Raphaël Gazon
Past President (2021 – 2022)
Chair of the membership committee (2019 - 2020)
Chair of the website committee (2016-2019)
Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist
Director, Centre PEPS-E (Psychothérapie et Pratiques Spécialisées dans le traitement des troubles Emotionnels)
Liège, Belgium
Maria Paola Boldrini
President Elect
Chair of the Education committee (2021-)
Education committee (2020 - )
Research Committee (2016 - )
Bi-Annual Meeting Comitee (2016-2019)
Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist
Trainer, supervisor and researcher at Studi Cognitivi and AreaTrauma l.l.c.
Modena-Milan, Italy
Ellen K. K. Jepsen.
Chair of the Research committee (2021 - )
Research Committee (2017 - 2020)
Titles: Psychiatrist, MD, PhD. Therapist, supervisor, trainer, and researcher in the area of trauma and dissociation. National work location: Department for Trauma Treatment, Modum Bad Psychiatric Center, Norway. Period: 2019-2022.
Suzana Guedes
Education committee (2021 - )
Clinical and Health Psychologist, Psychotherapist, PhD, Researcher and Supervisor.
Past presidents
Raphaël Gazon
Past President (2021 – 2022)
Chair of the membership committee (2019 - 2020)
Chair of the website committee (2016-2019)
Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist
Director, Centre PEPS-E (Psychothérapie et Pratiques Spécialisées dans le traitement des troubles Emotionnels)
Liège, Belgium
Anca Sabau M.D.
Past President (2019 - 2021)
Chair of the Nomination committee
Child psychiatrist/ therapist
Email: info@estd.org
Andrew Moskowitz PhD
Immediate Past President (2019-2020)
President (2017 - 2018)
Scientific committee (2012 – 2016)
Professor of Clinical Psychology,
Touro College Berlin, Germany
Eva Zimmermann
President (2015 – 2017)
Chair of the Education Committee (2010 – 2013)
Clinical psychologist and psychotherapist
Co-director of the “Institut Romand de Psychotraumatologie” of Switzerland Training in psychotrauma.
Manoëlle Hopchet, M.A.
President (2013 – 2015)
Clinical Psychologist
President, Belgian Institute for Psychotraumatology (BIPE)
Brussels, Belgium
Rémy Aquarone, M.Sc.
President (2011 – 2013) December
Analytical Psychotherapist
Director Pottergate Centre for Dissociation Norwich, United Kingdom
Eli Somer, Ph.D.
President (2009 – 2011)
Senior Clinical Psychologist
University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
Suzette Boon, Ph.D.
President (2006 – 2009)
Clinical Psychologist/Psychotherapist
Brinkveld Center for Personality and Trauma-Related Disorders
Zeist, The Netherlands