Dr Owens has a wide & varied experience of Mental Health practice with over 20 years post qualifying in the clinical mileu. He has practiced across a range of directorates, within a range of clinical environments and has an affinity for acute psychiatry, crisis response & home treatment. Dr Owens has extensive clinical experience and this is further supported by his academic & research work. Academic interests include: psychiatric symptoms, trauma, dissociation, psychosis, and Alcohol Related Brain Damage (ARBD), and Teaching & Learning. Furthermore, Mark has interests in therapeutic interventions eg., Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing (EMDR), Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Techniques (MBSRT). Over past year Dr Owens has taken up a full time post as Lecturer in the Education of Mental Health Nursing with the Queens University of Belfast School of Nursing and Midwifery. It is Mark's modus operandi to assist in maximising the potential of "the other" whether that be in a clinical realm or within an academic environment. 

Doctoral Thesis 2012: Trauma, sub-clinical dissociation, and psychosis. A study of self-reported trauma and its psychological consequences in a student population. University of Ulster.