CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY & PSYCHOTHERAPY

Clinical Psychology and Clinical Neuropsychology

I am a Consultant Chartered Clinical Psychologist and Full Member of the British Psychological Society’s (BPS) Division of Clinical Psychology (DCP) as well as Full Member of the BPS’s Division of Counselling Psychology (DCoP). I am a Full Registered Clinical Psychologist as well as Counselling Psychologist with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC).  I am a Full Divisional member of the BPS Division of Neuropsychology (DoN) and on the Special Register for Clinical Neuropsychology (SRCN) which is the highest gold standard register for Clinical Neuropsychology. I am a Full Clinical Member listed on the Clinical Register for the Society of Neuropsychoanalysis. My expertise and training cover the complete human life span treating children above 5 years of age, adolescents, and adults (including senior adults) throughout their lifespan. Much of my practice is in the assessment and treatment of adolescents and adults.

My core areas of expertise are:

  • Anxiety and trauma
  • PTSD
  • Complex PTSD

My Clinical Psychology and Clinical Neuropsychology training and experience spans 20 years and I have developed my expertise in treatment across many areas of psychopathology including:

  • Nero-developmental disorders such as ADHD, Asperger’s and Autism
  • Depression
  • Personality disorders and mood disorders
  • Body Dysmorphic Disorders (BDD)
  • Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS)
  • Somatising Disorders
  • Pain Disorders
  • Addictions
  • Psychosis
  • Sexual Disorders
  • ODC
  • Neuropsychology including Dementia, brain injuries, and medical disorders
  • Neuropsychology of sleep; Insomnia, para-insomnias, nightmares
Psychotherapy

I have trained in individual as well as systems psychotherapy including couples and families as well as organisational systems approaches, please see my Biography for further details. I have an interest in assessment as well as treatment and can assist in both online and face to face treatment.

I am a licensed Consultant Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist with the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) as well as with the United Kingdom Psychotherapy Council (UKCP). I am a Full Consultant Chartered Registered Clinical Psychologist with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) and the British Psychological Society (BPS). I am on the BPS Chartered Register for Psychotherapy.  I offer a range of psychotherapeutic interventions and therapies including:

  • Psychotherapy
  • Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
  • Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)
  • Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
  • Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT)
  • Addictions therapies
  • Motivational interviewing
  • Addressing developmental trauma
  • Insight focussed Psychotherapy

 Our Aim

Psychological Systems will work to help you positively transform and realise your vision of HELATH, WORK, LOVE & PLAY by developing the pathways and interventions to help unblock where you feel frustrated and stuck. Our aim is to help co-create the healthiest version of self, your relationship, and in improving the world in which we live. Our vision is to develop a fundamental shift in capability, leading to a renewed, potentiality significantly better quality of life and an overall improvement in your well-being. We understand this can be incredibly difficult for individuals when they are under significant stress related issues especially if combined with mental and or physical health issues. We want to help individuals to begin and continue to improve these challenging aspects.

Who do we provide the deepest value to?

Frequently, our clients are highly successful but very stressed, as well as being potentially traumatised people. Frequently our clients are industry leaders or family members who are having to manage distressing problems. Whatever the issues you face individually, or as a group, we would like to help create a profoundly positive and meaningful change within your lives as well as within your wider sphere to help you ameliorate the present problems.

What do we create? 

Insight, Understanding and Resolution.

The result we work towards is positive transformation of the individual or group and therefore achieve meaningful and sustainable solutions.

Please note, if you are looking to BOOK AN APPOINTMENT to visit the practice it will be necessary at the time of registration to complete a short compulsory General Health Assessment test, please refer to Psychometric Tests & Online Interventions for further details.