My business is registered with the ICO (UK). Professional and public liability insurance held (Zurich). I am MNCPS Accredited (NCS22-02705)
As an online psychotherapist, I can provide support in any suitable time zone (including North and South Americas).
I offer an integrative blend of therapies to help you feel better for the long term, often in just 6-10 individual sessions.
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- #CBH to notice and reframe unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and achieve your goals
- #DBT to identify, understand and regulate emotions and build new ways of responding
- #Hypnotherapy techniques to help you relax better
- Online sessions for flexibility and privacy
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Group skills teaching available on demand
therapy accreditations and professional memberships
TQUK Level 2 counselling from Windsor Forest group
OFQUAL Level 4 Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy (DipCBH) from UKCHH. (British Psychological Society-accredited)
OFQUAL Level 5 anti-oppressive counselling from CPCAB (PCL5)
DBT practitioner from Greenwood Mentors Ltd
DBT upgrade training from British Isles DBT
Member of the professional society British Society of Clinical and Academic Hypnosis (BSCAH)
Member International Society of Hypnosis (ISH)
My toolbox of mainstream techniques: CBH, CBT, DBT
I mainly use and teach clients Cognitive Behavioural Therapy with Hypnosis, Mindfulness and Acceptance, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy. These are all mainstream psychotherapy techniques, evidence-based and used in conventional Western Medicine. Hypnosis uses the power of your imagination to help make the changes you want.
DBT was designed in the USA for people with mainly trauma-related unwanted and understandable patterns of behaviour, labelled as borderline personality disorder (BPD), often termed emotionally unstable personality disorder (EUPD) in Europe. The techniques are useful for many other clients and I use them daily.
CBT works through understanding that our thoughts (cognitions) influence our feelings/emotions, behaviours, and bodily sensations to events. I will help you to recognise and change unhelpful ingrained/subconscious assumptions and patterns of thinking +/- your behaviours so you feel better and behave in line with your values.
Evidence from clinical trials shows that CBT is particularly helpful for anxiety, panic, mild depression, IBS, menopausal hot flushes.
Former career as a doctor
I understand the stresses on students, having taught and examined undergraduates and postgraduates throughout my career (and taken quite a lot of exams myself!)
BSc Hons; MBBS (medical degree); MRCP (higher professional exam), MD (Doctorate degree)
I retired from being an NHS consultant physician before training as a cognitive behavioural hypnotherapist, in DBT, then counselling.
