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Specialises in

• Behavioural Activation (BA)
• Behavioural Couples Therapy
• CBT with Exposure and Response Prevention (CBT with ERP)

• Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
• Mindfulness based CBT

• Schema focused therapy
• Trauma focused CBT

Offers

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

About me

Dr Gisele Fernandes is an experienced Clinical Psychologist who has worked in the mental health field in the NHS for over 20 years. Gisele currently works mostly in private therapy practice as well as working part-time for the NHS as a clinical supervisor with Clinical Psychologists.
During her full-time employment in the NHS, Gisele worked in different capacities such as Service Manager, Interim Service Lead, Senior Clinician and Clinical Supervisor and in different services from Inpatient Psychiatric Wards to Talking Therapy Services.� Over the course of her career and work, Gisele has supported many people from many backgrounds, and with different mental health difficulties, to improve their emotional and mental wellbeing.� She has worked with people experiencing difficulties such as depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, post traumatic stress, relationship difficulties, health anxiety, social anxiety, perfectionism and anxiety/stress.�
Additionally, Gisele has also supported many mental health professionals and colleagues in their professional development through the provision of clinical supervision.
As a Clinical Psychologist, Gisele has a special interest in providing psychological therapy. Her main therapy approaches are: Schema Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy and Couple Therapy for Depression. Gisele specialises in working with people from many professional backgrounds who struggle with self-esteem and/or confidence issues and
who, as a result, overachieve or self-sabotage but who want to improve the way they feel about
themselves.��Gisele supports her therapy clients in developing more self-acceptance and self-
compassion in order to help them with significant transformations in their sense of self-worth.
Within her private practice, Gisele offers a range of services which include: one-to-one therapy,
group therapy and workshops on the topics of self-worth and self-confidence. In addition, she offers clinical supervision to mental health professionals. She is exceptionally keen on de-stigmatising mental health difficulties and on facilitating access to high-quality information about mental health difficulties to as many people as possible.
As a clinician and as a person, Gisele values kindness, compassion, fairness and justice. Gisele has a hopeful and optimistic view of people and life.� Her approach to therapy is imbued with respect and compassion for people and the difficulties that they experience.� She aims to offer a safe and healing space to everyone she works with.� Her colleagues and clients have often commented on Gisele's professionalism and kindness.� Fundamentally, Gisele's main goal is to be deeply present and supportive of people she works with.

Areas of interest

Gisele is a highly experienced Clinical Psychologist specialising in helping people who are professionals (e.g., Accountants, Doctors, IT Professionals, Lawyers, Managers, Teachers, Architects, CEO's) and who struggle with their sense of self (e.g., low sense of self-worth/self-esteem and/or confidence) and as a consequence overachieve or self-sabotage.
Gisele's main therapeutic approaches are Schema Therapy and CBT.
Gisele helps her clients with difficulties such as depression and low mood, anxiety problems (e.g., worry, OCD, panic, health anxiety), low self-esteem, relationship problems, self-criticism, perfectionism, trauma, stress, burnout and lack of confidence.

Specialist interests and expertise in the following physical conditions

• Psychophysiological disorders

Medical secretaries

• Gisele Fernandes