About Linda

I am a highly experienced Chartered Clinical Psychologist and therapist and for over 30 years, have enjoyed working with adults, children, adolescents and their families, both within my roles in the NHS in Dorset, Somerset and Central London, and for the past 15 years, in my independent practice. I have also recently valued spending several years as a Clinical Tutor at the Exeter University training Clinical Psychologists.

A main feature of my work has been around helping children, young people and adults with emotional distress, relationship and behavioural difficulties, who have found themselves feeling 'stuck'.  The therapeutic work can involve working with individuals, parents, siblings, partners and families.

Over the years since qualifying I have trained in a range of additional therapeutic interventions including:

• Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

• Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)

• Systemic family work, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP)

• Compassion Based Therapy.

I have expertise in helping those, who within their relationships, experience a range of difficulties including anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, sleep and eating difficulties, trauma (including PTSD), low self-esteem and low mood, and bereavement difficulties. Additional specific expertise in the impact of chronic health conditions such as Diabetes, CFS/ME and pain.

As a Clinical Psychologist I have completed broad and rigorous training and am qualified in both assessment and a broad range of therapeutic psychological approaches, all of which have a strong evidence base.  Given my extensive clinical experience I will also draw on my knowledge of those approaches that have worked well and have been helpful to others.  I have particular interest in trauma, including developmental trauma, and in discovering the attachment styles and patterns of relating, that can continue throughout our lives.

I recognise the great importance of the therapeutic relationship. I believe it is essential to provide you with a space where you feel comfortable, supported and safe to talk openly about any distress and where you feel listened to with compassion and empathy.