About David Blore Associates Ltd
David Charles Blore
Photography: Jerry Hardman-Jones
The company started as the private practice of David Blore in Mansfield in 1992 with referrals originally from British Coal because David, then a CBT therapist in the NHS, developed a speciality of treating trauma stemming from accidents in the underground environment. In 1993, with the advent of the Bilsthorpe Colliery Disaster, David started using Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing (EMDR) as a treatment of choice for psychological trauma. This was fully 12 years before the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) recommended EMDR as one of the two treatments of choice for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
By 1996 David completed his EMDR training in Holland under the auspices of the discoverer of EMDR, Francine Shapiro. David moved the private practice to Nottingham that year and started taking medicolegal referrals for various psychological traumas inevitably including psychological problems stemming from Road Traffic Accidents.
By 1997 David was involved with facilitating training in EMDR across many European countries. In 1998 he was invited to do humanitarian work in Russia following two mining disasters in Siberia and in 1999 he again was involved in humanitarian work, this time after the first of the Turkish earthquakes that year – and just before the second! David retired from the NHS in 2001 (just after 9/11 – no connection!), and relocated his clinical work to York.
Shortly afterwards the private practice converted to a Limited company with clinical work focussing on psychological trauma amongst the Police and the railway industry, expanding in due course into the manufacturing industry and petrochemical industry. The ‘Associates’ part of the company highlights the interlinking with other experienced clinicians work in the same field and David being able to call on these clinicians as and when needed. In 2007, David opened a second company, Essential Training Consultancy to focus on clinical supervision of up to 40 of his colleagues around the UK using EMDR. In addition, David is also involved in PhD research at the University of Birmingham into Post Traumatic Growth amongst those who have been involved in an RTA and subsequently had EMDR.