Working with dissociative parts and their voices: A practical guide for trauma therapists

Dolores Mosquera is a psychologist and psychotherapist specializing in complex trauma, personality disorders, and dissociation. She is the director of the Institute for the Study of Trauma and Personality Disorders. INTRA-TP) in A Coruña, Spain—a 3-clinic private institution initially founded in 2000.

She collaborates with two different Domestic Violence Programs, one focused on Women Victims of DV and another one on Males with Violent Behaviour. She belongs to the Spanish National Network for the Assistance of Victims of Terrorism and collaborates with an organisation aiding victims of emergencies, accidents, violent attacks, kidnapping and other traumatic incidents.

Dolores has extensive teaching experience leading seminars, workshops, and lectures internationally. Dolores also teaches in several Universities and collaborates supervising Clinical Psychologists in postgraduate training programs in Spain.

She has participated as a guest speaker in numerous conferences and workshops throughout Europe, Asia, Australia, and North, Central, and South America.

Dolores has published several books, book chapters and articles on personality disorders, complex trauma, and dissociation. She received the David Servan-Schreiber award for outstanding contributions to the EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) field in 2017, was made Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation in 2018, for her contributions to the trauma and dissociation field, and received the MAM10 Prix David Servan-Schreiber award in 2021 to a foreign researcher who has made a notable international contribution, having advanced research in the field of EMDR. In 2022 Dolores received the award Professional of the Year in the category of Psychology for the trajectory and significant contributions in dignifying the profession (psychology).