Alexandra Cat 

TCTSY-F, TCTSY-T, RYT, MA (Sussex), BA Hons (Oxf)

Director - The Yoga Clinic (UK)

Teaching Faculty, The Centre for Trauma & Embodiment, Trauma Sensitive Yoga Certification Program

Licensed 20-hour TCTSY Trainer (TCTSY-T) for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland.

Certified to facilitate Trauma Centre, Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY-F) as an adjunctive treatment for Developmental/Complex trauma

Alexandra Cat’s clinical supervision is with Dave Emerson and/or Jenn Turner (Co-Directors, Centre for Trauma & Embodiment), within a monthly TCTSY peer reflection group and quarterly with Carmen Ablack (President, European Association of Body Psychotherapy).

As a TCTSY-F, Alex's practice must comply with the IA-TCTSY Guidelines on Ethical Practice

Alex’s private practice - both individual and group - is with The Gestalt Centre, London; she currently partners with Advance Charity offering trauma informed psychoeducational and yoga sessions.

Alex's client base includes individuals who identify as living with a range of experiences, including:

  • dissociation

  • body dysmorphia, shame & dysregulated appetite & eating

  • addictions, compulsions & self-injurious behavior

  • depression, insomnia, anxiety

  • complex & developmental trauma

In both her individual and group work Alex's interests are in early sexual assault, neglect, body dysmorphia, fantasy and shame. She has a special interest in working with individuals with non-conforming identities of sex, gender and sexuality, and in developing a trauma informed group practice to work as an adjunct to trauma informed group therapy.

Alex has presented posters and delivered workshops on interoception, trauma & chronic stress to the London Speciality Schools of Psychiatry, of General Practitioners, the International and UK Societies for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis and to the National Health Service Practitioner Health Programme.

Alex is a regular guest lecturer for the UK’s National Health Service, Medical Education programs. 

She is a founding member of the International Association of Trauma Center, Trauma Sensitive Yoga (IA-TCTSY), co-convenes the TCTSY Ethics Committee and co-ordinates the TCTSY Reflective Practice Groups.

Current Research

In partnership with Dr Patsy Fuller, North Essex Partnership Foundation Trust, Pilot Study - Trauma Centre, Trauma Sensitive Yoga, An Adjunctive Treatment for Complex Trauma

 

Professional Membership

  • Positive Outcomes for Dissociative Survivors - Dissociative Friendly Therapists

  • European Association of Trauma Centre, Trauma Sensitive Yoga (EA-TCTSY)

  • International Association of Trauma Centre, Trauma Sensitive Yoga (IA-TCTSY)

  • TCTSY Ethics Committee

  • TCTSY Reflective Practice Group