Dominik Havsteen-Franklin, PhD

CNWL NHS Foundation Trust & Brunel University London & European Federation of Art Therapy  &British Association of Art Therapy

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In 2011 Dominik founded and became head of the International Centre for Arts Psychotherapies Training (ICAPT) for Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. The training centre has been invaluable to disseminating good practice principles, and evidence based practice in health. Dominik leads on evaluation, design and delivery of arts-based intervention development and training. As the Trust arts therapies research and development lead, in 2014 Dominik also founded the Horizons Project to assist early-career arts therapies researchers in developing and implementing qualitative and quantitative research methods in NHS contexts. Further to this, specialising in developing and applying art therapy methods to treat patients in a range of different contexts integrating physical health and mental health, Dominik also has also led or co-led clinical model development for arts therapists working with different clinical groups as part of different research teams. His published research to date has focused on practice development and defining clinical models from patient and clinician perspectives for a range of mental health issues.