Pam Virdi is an EMDR  Europe Accredited Consultant, Integrative Psychotherapist, Lecturer and Clinical Supervisor who now works full time in private practice with adults, couples and young people. She specialises in the treatment of eating disorders but also has extensive experience of working successfully with a broad range of other clinical difficulties including complex trauma and PTSD. She is an accredited member of The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and EMDR Europe. She started her career in mental health 36 years ago when she completed her core training as a psychiatric nurse. The last 28 years of her career in the National Health Service (UK) were spent working as a specialist psychotherapist and lecturer/trainer in an Eating Disorder Service in Birmingham. She is an experienced lecturer and has experience of developing, co-ordinating and delivering programmes of study up to Master level. She developed and ran the first academic university- based training for eating disorders in the UK, starting at Birmingham University, and then ran a year-long competency- based Eating Disorder Pathway (part of a BSc Mental Health Studies degree) at Birmingham City University. This scheme of study ran successfully for 9 years and made a valuable national contribution in training professionals of all disciplines to work in this highly specialist and challenging area of work.  She has served as a member on the Editorial Board of the European Eating Disorder Review Journal (1998 - 2008) and has set up and chaired national special interest groups for eating disorders both generally and EMDR specific. She has experience of working with the media to promote a better understanding of eating disorders and has given newspaper and radio interviews and regularly presents at national and international conferences. She is co-editor for a book called Trauma-Informed Approaches to Eating Disorders which was published in August 2018 by Springer Publishers. This in important contribution, as the last book on the role of trauma in eating disorders was published over 20 years ago!