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Specialises in

• Behaviour Therapy
• Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)

• Counselling

• Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)

Offers

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

About me

I am a fully accredited (2013) BABCP Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapist and I practice independently under the company name Mind Body Balance Limited and I am currently working towards EMDR Accreditation. I deliver therapy face to face and remotely by telephone and Skpe.

I have 25 years experience as a therapist 11 years as a primary care counsellor and 14 years post qualification as a Cognitive Therapist Behavioural Therpaist utilising CBT models and of treatment based on research evidence and practice. I practice in accordance with NICE guidelines in the treatment of depression and a range of anxiety disorders i.e. Panic with or without agoraphobia, Health Anxiety, Social Anxiety, OCD, Specific Phobias and my specialist area is PTSD. Before I trained and qualified as a Behavioural and Cognitive Therapist in 2009, I was employed as a counsellor and I worked for various charitable and public sector organisations in addition to working in the NHS for 11 years in both secondary and in primary care sectors, counselling a diverse range of clients i.e. 16 to 80 presenting with a wide range of issues i.e. crisis and suicide assessment and management, RTA, PTSD/trauma, grief and bereavement, divorce, separation, loss including loss of health, unemployment and work placed grievance, and financial emotional and sexual abuse. Since qualifying as a CBT therapist I continued with training and professional development and in 2013 I trained and achieved EMDR Europe certificates in EMDR and have been including EMDR in my practice since that date


In all of my work I strive to act professionally and ethically to enhance practice and efficacy I attend supervision regularly. developing my clinical experience and skills and to ensure that I deliver treatment to the highest possible professional and ethical standards I comply fully with BABCP CPD practice requirements and I have achieved the awards listed later in this profile .

Areas of interest

Specialism - PTSD including RTA; miscarriage and birth trauma and CSA.

Depression including recurrent and post natal depression; Anxiety disorders i.e. - Panic with or without agoraphobia; health anxiety; social anxiety; OCD; grief and specific phobia.

Grief i.e. bereavement; divorce, separation and loss e.g. employment; loss of health

Specialist interests and expertise in the following physical conditions

• Eating disorders

• Pain management

• Psychophysiological disorders

Medical secretaries

• Clive
• 36 Astral Drive Thorpe Thewles Stockton-On-Tees TS21 3FJ
• 01740 631040
• 07754 701064
• joanwilson16@btinternet.com