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Specialises in

• Psychotherapy

Offers

• Face-to-face consultations
• Video and telephone consultations

About me

Previously Consultant Psychiatrist and Associate Professor at the University of London and Essex Partnership Trust more recently Visiting Consultant Psychiatrist at Priory North London Hospital.
Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrist in London and holder of PhD from the University of London. Previously Honorary Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the Bart and London Medical School, University of London who has published around 50 psychiatric articles in scientific research published in the most famous scientific and medical journals.
Dr Walid Abdul-Hamid is a Consultant Psychiatrist with 35 years' experience in psychiatry and who previously worked at North Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Barts Hospital, London in the UK. Dr Walid Abdul-Hamid has also held a visiting consultant post at Priory UK and Bart Hospital in London. He uses his long clinical experiences and his wide and deep knowledge of most up-to-date psychiatric research to practice evidence-based mental health care especially in treating treatment resistant psychiatric disorders.
His training in psychiatry followed completion of a doctorate in Community psychiatry at the University College London on the mental health needs of homeless people in inner London. He later trained at the Maudsley Hospital and Institute of Psychiatry in London where he completed membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Dr Walid Abdul-Hamid has special interest in trauma psychiatry and he has been using EMDR in the treatment of psychological trauma in veteran and non veteran patients. He has been using EMDR and psychiatric medication in the treatment of the causes rather than the symptoms of psychiatric conditions. He has achieved the position of EMDR Europe Consultant and supervisor and trainer in training with the EMDR Europe Association and Trauma Aid Europe. He is also interested in using combination of medication and psychotherapy to treat drug treatment resistant psychiatric conditions like depression and psychiatric disorder. His last Job before joining Priory North London Hospital, was a consultant Psychiatrist and EMDR supervisor at Combat Stress a charity that represent the best psychological trauma service in UK according to the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Dr Walid Abdul-Hamid has had a long interest in Cultural and Ethnic Psychiatry related particularly but not inclusively to Arab and Muslim cultural backgrounds and he was previously the advisor to the cultural consultation service at the centre for psychiatry, Barts and London Medical school.

Areas of interest

Adjustment disorder;
Anger management issues;
Anxiety disorders;
Asperger syndrome;
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); and attention deficit disorder (ADD);
Autistic spectrum disorders;
Autism;
Bipolar disorder;
Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD);
Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS);
Depression;
Drug-induced psychosis;
Gender dysphoria;
Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS);
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD);
Personality disorders;
Phobias;
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD);
Perinatal depression;
Schizophrenia;
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD);
Self-harm;
Sexual dysfunction;
Sleep disorders (incl. insomnia);
Somatic symptom disorder (SSD);
Stress;
Treatment-resistant depression;

Medical secretaries

• Miss Taghared Abdul-Hameed
• 9 Windsor Garden Bolton BL1 4EY
• 07792 771174
• 07792 7711774
• tagreedhamid@aol.com