Renee P. Marks, PhD

Renée Potgieter Marks works as a therapist and clinical lead at Integrate, in the North of England. Integrate has its head office in Huddersfield, with various other offices across England. Renée founded Integrate in 2006.

Renée and her team of therapists specialises in children and adolescents with attachment difficulties, complex trauma and dissociation who display significant emotional, social, and behavioural difficulties and/or are struggling with mental health problems. Most of the children which are referred has already received a variety of therapeutic input but ongoing or increasing difficulties resulted in referral to Integrate. Integrate is also the National Centre for Trauma and Dissociation for Children and Adolescents in England.

Renée is a national and international trainer as well as the founder of BICTD, providing online training for therapists on Assessment and Treatment of Children with Complex Trauma and Dissociation.

Renée regularly provides clinical supervision to multiple therapists, nationally as well as internationally and acts as supervisor and consultant for groups of therapists of different agencies in the UK.

She is chair of the Child and Adolescent Committee of the ESTD and was involved in developing the Guidelines for the Assessment and Treatment of Children and Adolescents with Dissociative Symptoms and Dissociative Disorders. She is also co-author of the book Treating Children with Dissociative Disorders: Attachment, Trauma, Theory and Practice and has published multiple chapters and articles in published academic books on the topic of therapy for children and adolescents with complex trauma and dissociation.