- Fee assured
- Verified account
Specialises in
- Behavioural Couples Therapy
- Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Schema focused therapy
- Trauma focused CBT
Offers
- Face-to-face consultations
- Video and telephone consultations
About me
Dr Tej is Consultant Clinical Psychologist with 26 years clinical experience across Infant, Child and Adult mental health services. In her clinical practice with adults, her expertise is in helping identify and work through intergenerational cycles of trauma � or trauma with a small 't', such as complex developmental trauma/family trauma/narcissistic abuse, scapegoating, chronic shame, feeling stuck not knowing how to break relational patterns. Clients she has worked with report these difficulties in the context of bullying at work, couple /marital/relationship difficulties and attachment/parenting and birth trauma/difficulties.
Dr Tej completed her undergraduate degree in Psychology at Royal Holloway, MSc in Research at Reading University, Doctoral training at UCL and postdoctoral training in Neuropsychology at Nottingham University. She has authored several papers on neuroscience, the brain and attachment and for ten years taught and examined on NHS Clinical Doctoral programmes. She has also co-supervised PhDs during this time.
Areas of interest
Dr Tej is trained in Mentalisation Based Therapy, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Neuropsychology, Schema Focussed Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, EMDR and uses an integrative systemic framework tailored to the individual. Dr Tej uses attachment-focussed and neurobiological approaches in all her work linking mind, brain and body in an integrative intergenerational framework.
Through collaborative alliance, many of her clients report rapid recovery from linking past to present; a renewed understanding of self in the context of others, taking on new skills and becoming active authors of a new possible future. She offers face to face and online sessions.
Dr Tej has several years experience in working with clients from the Christian community.
