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Bupa specialist
- Video & Telephone remote therapy sessions
About me
Qualifications: M.A.; M.Ed (Psychol); M.Sc; B.Sc(Hons); RN (MH); DipHE; MBPsS; ENB998; BABCP (Accred); EMDR Europe(Accred).
I am an accredited cognitive & behavioural psychotherapist, accredited CBT supervisor and accredited EMDR practitioner. I am also a registered mental health nurse and graduate member of the British Psychological Society and currently work as a Head of Psychological Therapies and Clinical Lead within NHS primary care psychological therapy services. I have extensive experience working in the NHS, but I have also worked for 3 major Universities in research based Psychological Sciences and in the training of psychological therapists for the NHS psychological therapies programme (IAPT).
I have published in the international academic literature on the theory, science and practice of cognitive & behavioural therapies and have conducted work on a wide variety of anxiety and depression based problems. I am also a qualified therapist in the treatment of psychosis, of which I hold a masters degree and specialise in the treatment of trauma. I hold additional training in the application of cognitive & behavioural analysis system of psychotherapy (CBASP), an evidence based behavioural and cognitive therapy for the treatment of chronic and persistent depression.
Areas of interest
PTSD; Psychological trauma; anxiety; depression; chronic depression; dysthymia; adjustment problems; stress; social anxiety; health anxiety; OCD; worry; generalised anxiety disorder; psychosis; phobias.
Medical secretaries
- Reception
- Sutton House Group 27 Wilson Patten Street Warrington WA1 1PG
- 01925 446621
- 07906 679394
- userfriendlypsychiatry@googlemail.com