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Specialises in

• Applied Relaxation
• Behaviour Therapy
• Behavioural Activation (BA)
• Behavioural Couples Therapy

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

• Motivational Enhancement Therapy
• Motivational Interviewing
• Solution Focused Brief Therapy
• Trauma focused CBT

Offers

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

About me

I am a clinical psychologist specialising in long term physical health conditions such as chronic pain, fatigue, diabetes, long covid, fibromyalgia, IBS, respiratory conditions, neurological conditions and heart conditions. I also specialise in perinatal wellbeing, supporting both mums and dads throughout the conception, pregnancy, birth and new parents stages. Further, I offer support for general mental health difficulties such as anger, low mood, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem and adjustment issues as well as supporting with staff and student wellbeing.

I strive to offer a warm, compassionate and empathic space to explore difficulties from and to build on strengths. I seek to be collaborative - ensuring that the patient leads the pace, content and focus of sessions, and respecting the knowledge, skills and experiences that the patient brings with them to therapy.

Sessions provide a reflective and emotional processing space, as well as a skills-building space. They are based on a thorough understanding and assessment of the patients needs - building a thorough understanding of the factors that may have made the patient more vulnerable to developing difficulties, and the factors that may be contributing to or maintaining difficulties.

I draw from a number of different models and approaches, including individual, family and community psychology approaches. This helps us to think more broadly about the many factors that influence our health and wellbeing - including the world around us and our relationships - and helps us to address the wider factors that can contribute to health and wellbeing.

Areas of interest

Physical Health (long term conditions); Perinatal Wellbeing (conception, pregnancy & birth issues/traumas, antenatal & postnatal anxiety & depression, relational issues, identity issues, new parent challenges); Staff Wellbeing; Student Wellbeing; General Mental Health (anxiety, stress, trauma, low mood, depression, anger, low self-esteem); Grief

Specialist interests and expertise in the following physical conditions

• Cardiac conditions
• Gastrointestinal disorders
• Gynaecological disorders
• Musculoskeletal conditions

• Neurological disorders
• Oncology
• Pain management

• Psychophysiological disorders
• Physical disability
• Rheumatological conditions