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Specialises in

• Applied Relaxation
• Behaviour Therapy

• CBT with Exposure and Response Prevention (CBT with ERP)
• Counselling

• Trauma focused CBT

Bupa specialist

• Child and Adolescent Mental Health services

About me

I am offering psychotherapy either face-to-face or on Zoom.

Choosing the right therapist for you is not easy, and I hope the information here will help you make this important decision. After all, your
therapist will begin with you as a complete stranger, and you are preparing to tell them not just your story but share intimate details about your life.

My name is Linda K. Berkeley and I am an Anglo-American CBT therapist. I work with people from all backgrounds and ethnicities and have experience in working with people on the autistic spectrum, those with learning difficulties, substance misusers, transgendered people, and long-term health conditions. I can offer short or longer-term work and online therapy.

In addition to CBT, I offer Dialectical Behavioural Therapy and Compassion Focused Therapy.

I am told I am easily approachable, with a ready smile, an optimistic viewpoint, and an enthusiasm for life. When we meet, we will spend the first session discussing any questions you may have about therapy, how I work, what
brought you to see me and what you think will be helpful to you.

You are the expert on yourself, and only you can decide what might work for you. We will form a plan together, perhaps over the course of two to three sessions, of how we can proceed and what we collaboratively believe is going on for you.

You will find my practice is based on a humanistic, integrative, pluralistic blending of possibilities from several frameworks, including CBT and other "new wave" therapies such as Compassion Focused Therapy and Dialectical Behavioural Therapy, Gestalt, ideas from psychodynamic practice, with a person-centred, humanistic core.

Areas of interest

Depression, all types of anxiety, OCD, PTSD, complex trauma, substance misuse, trichotillomania and other bodily-focused repetitive behaviours, trust issues, people who have left cults, emotion regulations issues (personality disorders), fear, and anything else you can bring to therapy. I am also trained and qualified in working with children and adolescents, and I work with children aged 13+.

Specialist interests and expertise in the following physical conditions

• Eating disorders
• Psychophysiological disorders
• Personality disorders

• Emotion regulation issues
• Children and adolescents
• substance misuse

• Bodily focused repetitive behaviours
• Complex PTSD