Dr. Peter King

Peter King is an experienced educator and clinician with over 25 years of experiences in various public, community and private mental health settings. Since 1993, Peter has worked in Mental Health Nursing, Social Work, DBT Programs, Psychotherapy, and as a Senior Executive in the health care and not-for-profit sector. Peter has consolidated this experience both in Australia and the USA through mentoring with Marsha Linehan’s company Behavioral Tech LLC, mentoring with the creator of Somatic Trauma Therapy – Babette Rothschild, leading clinical research and completed Ph.D. in the mental health field.

Peter’s current clinical practice is in Private Practice in Melbourne, Australia and develops mental health professionals through interactive workshops with a focus on safe trauma therapy approaches and the management of individuals with extreme emotion dysregulation. He completed his Ph.D. focused on Clinical Interventions for Individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder and extreme emotion dysregulation from which he has developed Stabilisation Based Therapy (SBT).

Peter has previously held positions as CEO of an Indigenous Charity, Senior Researcher at the Centre for Rural Mental Health, Senior Clinician/Acting Manager on a Psychiatric Triage Team, University Lecturer, Clinical Educator for Emergency Psychiatry Services and employment with the Royal Melbourne Hospital (Eating Disorders Unit & ECATT).

Specialties: Trauma Therapy (Somatic Trauma Therapy), Success Strategies for Health Professionals, Educating Health Profesisonals, Mindfulness, Coaching Mental Health Professionals, Mental Health Service Delivery, At risk Indigenous Youth, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Program Development & Evaluation, Executive Management, Clinical Supervision