Paul
North
Psychologist with over 35 years of experience in the field of developmental disabilities and trauma therapy.Psychologist with over 35 years of experience in the field of developmental disabilities and trauma therapy.
Paul North is an Australian psychologist with more than 35 years of experience in the field of developmental disabilities and trauma therapy, assisting both children and adults. He has worked at the most senior government levels in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory as both a clinician and consultant. Paul was the inaugural chair of the Restrictive Practice Panel for the Office of the Senior Practitioner and wrote the legislation for the Australian Capital Territory on how to run a restrictive practice panel. He is also an accredited EMDR practitioner and Safe and Sound Protocol provider.
In 2011, at a conference in Sydney, Australia, Paul met Stephen Porges, the creator of the Polyvagal Theory, also known as “The Science of Safety”, and in 2020 he felt inspired to write a children’s book based on Polyvagal Theory, with his wife, Dr Lydia So, a developmental paediatrician. The book, Safe and Sound, endorsed by Dr Porges, is a story about a little girl who overcomes fear. In 2022, Paul presented at the International Childhood Trauma Conference in Melbourne on the clinical applications of the approach in this book. In 2024 a major US publisher agreed to publish the book.
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