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Specialises in

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

• Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
• Mindfulness based CBT

• Schema focused therapy
• Trauma focused CBT

About me

Dr Amber Keenan enjoys working collaboratively with people who wish to gain a better understanding of their identity, as part of a journey of exploration and personal growth. She provides a safe place to explore how individual differences and experiences affect self-esteem, wellbeing, and relationships.

Amber encourages people to understand these differences, learn to embrace them, and move forward from “stuck” places. Such experiences may include depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, complicated grief, somatisation, obsessive-compulsiveness, adjustment problems, relational differences, and trauma.

Amber specialises in adult mental health. She works on an integrative, individualised basis in person and online. She supports people to reach a place of acceptance whether related to mental health, sexuality, gender identity, faith, race, neurodivergence or other intersection. Therapy will help you process your distress and build the skills to manage these difficulties so that you can live a fuller, happier life.

Amber offers a safe space to explore and contain emotions. She has held various senior clinical positions in the NHS, predominantly in secondary care mental health services.

Much of Amber’s work is underpinned by Schema Therapy, and more broadly, by the principals of intersectionality. She regularly incorporates, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, Mindfulness, Behavioural Activation, Compassionate Mind, and Phase-based Interventions in her work.

Amber is also an experienced Gender Specialist who is able to provide psychological assessment and therapy for people experiencing distress associated with gender dysphoria / gender incongruence. She is the former Clinical Lead of an NHS Gender Identity Clinic.

Areas of interest

Adults; Older Adults; Mental Health; Anxiety; Depression; Trauma; PTSD; OCD; Gender Dysphoria; CBT; Trauma Focused CBT; EMDR; Schema Therapy; Mindfulness; Behavioural Activation; Exposure Response Prevention

Specialist interests and expertise in the following physical conditions

• Physical disability

Medical secretaries

• Dr Amber Keenan
• Aberdeenshire Clinical Psychology Ltd Crichiebank Business Centre Mill Road Inverurie AB51 5NQ
• 07493 527448
• drkeenan@aberdeenshirecp.com