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Specialises in

• Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT)
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Bulimia Nervosa (CBT-BN)

• Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)

• Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)

Offers

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

About me

• HCPC Registration No. PYL19120; DBS Registration No. 001631139860
I am a chartered Consultant Clinical Psychologist with over 20 years’ experience across a range of settings in the NHS and more recently in independent practice. These include a busy multi-cultural community mental health team, cognitive analytic group & individual therapy for adults who had experienced childhood sexual abuse and often other forms of abuse / neglect, acute general hospitals, acute psychiatric hospitals including specialist eating disorder units. I completed my cognitive analytic therapy training in 2006. I am also trained in interpersonal therapy (IPT) and eating disorder specific interventions such as CBT, MANTRA, and SSCM. I completed my EMDR (level 3 training in 2022). Since leaving my post as consultant clinical psychologist and clinical lead for eating disorders in Sussex in July 2018, I work nationally providing expert assessments for the courts and as a clinical associate trainer for BEAT, the national eating disorder charity. I also have a small independent practice and offer seeing patients also remotely via Zoom for example where appropriate.

Areas of interest

My interests include:
Using psychological models to help people manage life's challenges and to ensure that historical painful experiences do not negatively affect the person and their relationships in the here and how.
I have particular expertise in working with people who use eating / starvation as coping strategies; eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder including family skills training in eating disorders;
Trauma; interpersonal difficulties; depression; anxiety; history of abuse and neglect;
I work with older adolescents and adults (e.g. age about 16 upwards)

Specialist interests and expertise in the following physical conditions

• Eating disorders