Dr. Julia A. Andre speaks and teaches on complex trauma, dissociation, and the psychology of omission - demystifying what dissociation actually looks like for audiences who've only seen it in film, and bringing a relational, experiential, cross-cultural lens to rooms that rarely get one.
Based between Hong Kong and Bangkok. Available in person across Asia-Pacific and virtually worldwide. Talks delivered in English.
Length and depth flex to fit the room where possible - keynotes typically run 30-60 minutes, workshops half a day to a full day. See the tag on each talk for its exact format.
Keynotes & Panels
Standard trauma frameworks are built around single events. This talk introduces CPTSD and Omission Trauma as distinct categories most audiences have never heard named - in plain language, grounded in real clinical texture.
For: mental health conferences, wellness summits, general audiences
The wound with no event to point to. Why "nothing happened to me" can still be a trauma disclosure, and what changes once absence finally has a name.
For: general audiences, press, podcasts
Trained across three countries and practising in Asia, a working cross-cultural lens on trauma treatment - where Western diagnostic frameworks hold, where they don't translate, and what genuinely cross-cultural practice requires.
For: international conferences, cross-cultural clinical training
Workshops & CE
Dissociation is not a dramatic switch in a film - it's the high-functioning colleague who checks out mid-meeting, the client who can't recall last week's session. A hands-on session in recognising hidden dissociation, in clients and in yourself.
For: clinicians, CE audiences, curious general audiences
This is where recognition becomes skill. Live demonstration and guided practice with grounding and containment, internal parts communication, unblending, and titration - the actual tools for turning "I can see it now" into "I know what to do with it."
For: clinicians ready to move from theory to the room
Countertransference isn't a failure of technique - in trauma work, it's data. A candid, experiential look at what gets activated in the therapist during trauma treatment, and why naming it keeps clients safer.
For: therapists, clinical supervisors, training programmes
Every talk above can be adapted in length, depth, and framing for your audience. Have something more specific in mind - including topics like Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) through a dissociation lens - reach out and we'll shape a session around it.
Most therapist training teaches you what to do with a client. Almost none of it prepares you for what gets activated in you when you sit with them. Co-hosted with Dr. Tammy Oluyori, Therapists Unmasked is for therapists willing to look at their own inner world - not just to be better clinicians, but because the work demands it.
Listen to Therapists Unmasked →Also open to guesting on other shows - see Available For above.
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Specialising exclusively in trauma
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Dr. Julia A. Andre is a Registered Clinical Psychologist and trauma specialist based between Hong Kong and Bangkok, working exclusively with CPTSD, dissociation, and omission trauma.
Dr. Julia A. Andre is a Registered Clinical Psychologist (HCPC, BPS, HKPS) and BPS-RAPPS Accredited Supervisor based between Hong Kong and Bangkok. Over 10+ years, her practice has narrowed to complex trauma exclusively - CPTSD, dissociative disorders, and Omission Trauma, the framework she named for the trauma of what never happened. Founder of Undertrained, co-founder of Trauma Directory.
Dr. Julia A. Andre is a Registered Clinical Psychologist and trauma specialist based between Hong Kong and Bangkok, trained across three countries. Over more than a decade, her clinical focus has narrowed deliberately to trauma exclusively, and within that, to the presentations standard frameworks are most likely to miss: Complex PTSD, Dissociative Disorders, and Omission Trauma - a framework she named and developed for the trauma of what never happened. She is the founder of Undertrained, training clinicians in complex trauma and dissociation; co-founder and Clinical Director of Trauma Directory; and co-host of the podcast Therapists Unmasked. She is the author of Nothing Happened and co-author of Emotional Needs.