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I have been working in a psychological capacity since 2000 and qualified as a counselling psychologist in 2008. As well as working in private practice, I work as a senior psychologist for secondary adult mental health services and have specialised in adult work throughout my training and career.

I have been trained in a wide range of methods, including:

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
​Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
Psychodynamic
Humanistic psychotherapy.
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) 

I have had extensive supervision in Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) and Schema Focused Therapy.

I have worked with a wide range of people suffering from: 

Depression
Bereavement
Relational difficulties
Social Anxiety
Health Anxiety
Generalised Anxiety
Bipolar
Schizophrenia
Personality Disorders.
​Childhood Trauma
​Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Whilst a diagnosis can often be very helpful in giving some explanation of what might be going on for you and providing hope that things will get better, my concern is with the individual, their experiences and their suffering. So whilst I have worked with ‘depression’, ‘post traumatic stress disorder’ and ‘personality disorder’ my interest is in seeing what this means for you, if you have been offered a diagnosis, and how it fits with your life.
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This is part of reaching a psychological understanding (called ‘formulation’) of one’s difficulties at a current point in time. Working with me would involve negotiating such an understanding so that we would have a baseline around which to think about changes you may wish to make to your life or how to consider your perceptions around situations that are meaningful to you.
I work individually with adults whose difficulties are suitable for psychological therapy within the community.

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Often making the decision to seek psychological therapy is a difficult one. Meeting new people is often an anxious process, let alone when you do so to talk about things that may be very personal to you. Things will get easier though and I will be here to make the process as comfortable as it possibly can be by taking things as the pace you wish to and arranging relaxing surroundings for us to meet in.

Work with me is confidential. However, in order to maintain the standards of my practice I  may speak about our work with another psychologically trained professional; this is an arrangement that all those practising psychological therapies should be engaged with to ensure the quality, effectiveness and ethics of their therapy. I am also duty bound to protect your safety that of others and to report matters of serious illegality. We can discuss how you wish for me to communicate with other people, should this be your preference.

I am a member of Health Care and Professions Council and as such I adhere to their professional guidelines and code of conduct. You can both verify my membership and read those guidelines if you follow this link to the organisations homepage www.hpc-uk.org.
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  • Home
  • Psychological Therapy
  • About Me
  • Expert Witness/Legal Work
  • Contact and Booking
  • Professional Services
  • Free PTSD Course with VIdeo Presentations