Finder

Specialises in

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

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

• Trauma focused CBT

Bupa specialist

• Child and Adolescent Mental Health services

Offers

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

About me

Dr Fiona MacLeod D.Clin. Psy, M.Sc., PGDip CBT

Fiona is a Senior Clinical Psychologist who worked in the NHS from 2008-2021. She offers individual therapy for children, adolescents and adults, alongside family work where required, and specialises in the treatment of attachment difficulties, health difficulties including chronic pain and cancer, and psychological trauma. She has worked with a range of clients both as in-patients and in the community, including children and families, adults, military veterans, people with Complex Post-Traumatic Stress and people who have experienced significant pain and loss and who struggle in their relationships. Fiona worked for a number of years in CAMHS and has also worked in adult services in the community and in the third sector, including specialist trauma services for veterans and people bereaved by homicide, a specialist service for people experiencing cancer and a specialist service for people with Dissociative Disorders. She is trained in a number of evidence-based therapies, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Compassion-Focussed Therapy (CFT), Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR) and Brainspotting, and draws on these and on psychodynamic and systemic therapies in her work with adults, children and families. She has attended specialist training on working with adults, families and children impacted by trauma, loss and difficult transitions, including Dyadic Development Psychotherapy (DDP). Fiona utilises all of these approaches to understand the difficulties that clients are bringing to therapy, and how best to help. She uses a playful approach working with children and young people to foster a sense of safety and trust. She is a warm and experienced clinician who is skilled in the assessment and treatment of complex difficulties. Fiona has great respect for the courage and tenacity of the people she has worked with, and feels that it is a privilege to be invited into the lives of adults, children and families who are struggling.

Areas of interest

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD); Complex PTSD; Dissociative Disorders; Chronic Pain conditions; Psychological Trauma; Relationship Diffculties; Traumatic Loss; Adjustment to physical health difficulties; Oncology; Cancer; Attachment and developmental trauma; self harm; abuse and neglect; post-traumatic growth; brainspotting; EMDR; Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing; Long Covid; Menstrual Health; Endometriosis; Birth Trauma; Physical Health, Conversion disorders; working with parts

Specialist interests and expertise in the following physical conditions

• Cardiac conditions
• Gastrointestinal disorders
• Gynaecological disorders

• Musculoskeletal conditions
• Oncology
• Pain management

• Psychophysiological disorders
• Physical disability
• Rheumatological conditions