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Specialises in

• Applied Relaxation
• Behavioural Activation (BA)
• CBT with Exposure and Response Prevention (CBT with ERP)
• Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT)

• Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
• Counselling
• Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)

• Mindfulness based CBT
• Psychotherapy
• Trauma focused CBT

Offers

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

About me

About me and my practice

Mental health problems typically arise from the stresses and challenges of how we experience our unique lives and are known to affect 1 in 4 of all of us at some point in life. Problems can include:
• difficult or extreme thoughts (eg. about ourselves, others and the world)
• painful emotions (eg. extremes of fear, sadness, anger, guilt, shame)
• struggling with too little or too much self-control
• unwanted memories, images and flashbacks to past traumas and events
• mood swings
• unhelpful behaviours (eg. behaviours we do too much or too little)
• avoiding people, places or situations
• uncaring or damaging ways of relating to ourselves and other people

These types of problems can be distressing, confusing and exhausting, often leaving us feeling stuck and unable to change what have become vicious circle relational patterns and cycles of unhelpful thoughts, intolerable emotions, distressing bodily symptoms and self-limiting behaviours. All areas of our day to day quality of life can be affected: physical health, relationships, social life, work life and recreational life. Mental health difficulties can stop us from being the person we want to be and living the life we want to live.

I am an NHS consultant clinical psychologist and psychotherapist with over 28 years experience of assessing and helping adults (aged 16+) with a wide range of mental health difficulties. My approach is to help clients to move forward and take control of their lives through step by step helping them to:
• accept their problems non-judgmentally with compassion,
• understand and map out the underlying vicious circle relational patterns and cycles that keep their problems going, and then
• gradually learn to break or change the patterns and cycles through goal-setting and committed action.

I also help people understand and cope with the cognitive, emotional and behavioural effects of acquired brain injury (eg. head trauma, concussion, stroke, hypoxia etc).

To help people recover and grow a life worth living, I draw on further training and experience in a range of evidence-based specialties:
• Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT),
• Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT),
• Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT),
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT),
• Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT),
• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT),
• Clinical Hypnotherapy,
• Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy, and
• Clinical Neuropsychology.

My extensive clinical experience enables me to integrate strategies and approaches from these specialties to best fit the particular needs of each individual. I consider the therapeutic relationship to be an essential part of what makes therapies effective.

In addition to clinical practice, I am director of an expert witness consultancy, providing expert opinion assessments and court reports under instruction from solicitors in Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence and Occupational Health cases for people who have sustained psychological injury and/or neuropsychological (ie brain) injury. I also accept instructions for bespoke treatment and rehabilitation of psychological and neuropsychological injuries under the Rehabilitation Code (2015).

I was formerly an Honorary Teacher and Clinical Supervisor on the Doctor of Clinical Psychology (DClinPsy) degree training programme within the Faculty of Medicine and Science at the University of Sheffield from 2001-2015.

I hold chartership with both the British Psychological Society and the Science Council and certification as an expert witness with Cardiff University Law School, the Academy of Experts and the Expert Witness Institute.

Areas of interest

• Addictions (drugs, gambling)
• Adjustment Disorder
• Agoraphobia
• Anger & aggression
• Anxiety
• Assertiveness
• Assault trauma
• Bipolar Disorder
• Body image
• Borderline Personality Disorder
• Bullying/Harrassment
• Chronic Fatigue
• Chronic pain
• Compulsive & impulsive behaviour
• Depression
• Eating problems
• Flying phobia
• Health Anxiety
• Hearing upsetting voices
• Hoarding
• IBS
• Jealousy
• Low self-esteem/confidence
• Medical/surgical trauma
• Medically Unexplained Symptoms
• Military/Armed Forces trauma
• OCDisorder
• Occupational stress management
• Panic Disorder
• Paranoia
• Personality Disorder
• Phobias
• Post Concussion Symptoms
• PTSDisorder
• Psychosis
• Rape/sexual trauma
• Relationship/interpersonal problems
• RTA trauma
• Self-harm
• Self-neglect
• Sexual abuse
• Shame & self-hatred
• Social anxiety/social phobia
• Sleep difficulties
• Stress management prob

Specialist interests and expertise in the following physical conditions

• Eating disorders
• Neurological disorders

• Pain management

• Psychophysiological disorders

Medical secretaries

• Ruth Urquizu Rovira
• 18 Brookfield Oxspring Sheffield S36 8WG
• 01226 379769