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Specialises in

• CBT with Exposure and Response Prevention (CBT with ERP)
• Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)

• Mindfulness based CBT

• Trauma focused CBT

Bupa specialist

• Child and Adolescent Mental Health services

About me

Dr Morwenna Opie is a highly experienced Consultant Clinical Psychologist dedicated to empowering adults and young people with mental and physical health challenges to live optimally. Morwenna has accrued over two decades of practice as an academic and clinician in busy London NHS teaching hospitals, renowned private mental healthcare settings and in private practice on Harley Street. Particular areas of specialty include anxiety, depression, OCD and trauma/PTSD, as well as adjustment to life stressors of all kinds and including work-based stress and burn-out. She has additional skills in supporting patients with adjusting to living with long-term health conditions and with neurodiversity. She uses evidence-based and NICE recommended psychological interventions, delivered in an accessible and positive manner. Therapy is tailored to the individual, supporting patients to take a lead in managing their conditions; to increase healthy behaviours, build resilience and self-care, and improve quality of life and overall well-being.

Dr Opie is qualified in providing Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, as well as Mindfulness-based therapies which when delivered appropriately offer significant benefit to mental and physical health. Contributors to suffering such as mood difficulties, anxiety (including OCD) sleep, poor diet, grief, trauma, restricted activities and compromised relationships, all respond well to innovative psychologically-informed therapeutic approaches.

Dr Opie completed her undergraduate degree at Cambridge University where she won subject and college prizes. She obtained her PhD in Clinical Health and Psychology at UCL and completed her studies in New Zealand where she specialised in anxiety, neurophysiology and clinical health psychology. Dr Opie has had previous appointments within the NHS in pain services, and has been instrumental in pioneering the development of integrated psychological services within cardiology, rheumatology and in intensive care settings. She is committed to integrating psychological health routinely into physical healthcare settings, and to working collaboratively with and training other healthcare specialists.

Dr Opie strives to create a relaxed, safe and genuine relationship with her patients, encouraging them towards self-insight, self-acceptance and self-compassion, and as a consequence towards achieving life-long positive change. She adheres to her professional code of conduct, which includes strict adherence to guidelines relating to confidentiality and safe-guarding. On request appointments can also be arranged virtually and in other clinical settings.

Areas of interest

Adult Mental Health; Adolescent Mental Health

Specialist interests and expertise in the following physical conditions

• Cardiac conditions
• Eating disorders
• Gastrointestinal disorders
• Gynaecological disorders
• Musculoskeletal conditions
• Neurological disorders

• Oncology
• Pain management
• Psychophysiological disorders
• Physical disability
• Rheumatological conditions
• Grief

• Adjustment
• PTSD
• OCD
• Anxiety
• Depression

Medical secretaries

• Claire Bosustow
• The Duchy Hospital Penventinnie Lane Truro TR1 3UP
• 07812 095769
• claire.bosustow1@nhs.net