My Family Psychologist

My Family Psychologist Registered and Chartered Consultant Psychologist with 25 years experience.

My passion is to empower you to understand and maximise your own psychological wellbeing.

Teenager and Young AdultsIf underlying mental health or psychological difficulties have not emerged prior to this age, t...
06/06/2026

Teenager and Young Adults

If underlying mental health or psychological difficulties have not emerged prior to this age, then they are sure to make an appearance at this challenging life stage, affecting both Teenager and Young Adults. Aside from the enormous physical and endocrinal changes the teenager experiences, difficulties with wider relationships in the community, with work or in romantic relationships come into focus with difficulties that can include; relationships and s*xual difficulties, body image, gender dysphoria, personality difficulties, mood and emotional difficulties, self-harm, and substance misuse. Risk and safeguarding become more of an issue as this age group may fall between the net of children’s and adult services.

Amongst girls aged between 17 and 19, one in four have a probable mental health condition (The Health Foundation, 2022)

Su***de rates for 15-19 year olds are the highest they have been in 30 years. There is an urgent for government support as the teenage su***de rate had jumped by over a third, (Disability Rights, 2022).

If you would like to know more about how My Family Psychologist can help, call us on 07801 079555 or email [email protected]

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)This is a diagnosis you may be given if you develop anxiety problems after going th...
05/06/2026

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

This is a diagnosis you may be given if you develop anxiety problems after going through something you found traumatic. (As Mental Health Conditions, PTSD is normally associated with Military Veterans, however, it can effect anyone). PTSD can cause flashbacks or nightmares which can feel like you’re re-living all the fear and anxiety you experienced during the actual event. The condition was first identified in war veterans and has often been referred to as ‘shell shock’. It does not mean that you have to have been a soldier to experience PTSD. You may have experienced ongoing domestic violence or abuse, repeatedly witnessing violence or abuse, torture, kidnapping or slavery, being a prisoner of war or being forced to become a s*x worker. There are different types of PTSD:

Delayed-onset PTSD
If your symptoms emerge more than six months after experiencing trauma, this might be described as ‘delayed PTSD’ or ‘delayed-onset PTSD’.

Complex PTSD
If you experienced trauma at an early age or it lasted for a long time, you might be given a diagnosis of ‘complex PTSD’. Symptoms may include childhood abuse, neglect or abandonment, difficulty controlling emotions, often experiencing dissociative symptoms such as depersonalisation or derealisation, constant feelings of emptiness or hopelessness, regular suicidal feelings, feeling very hostile or distrustful towards the world, avoiding friendships and relationships, or finding them very difficult, feeling like nobody can understand what happened to you, feeling as if you are permanently damaged or worthless and/or feeling as if you are completely different to other people.

Birth Trauma PTSD
This can develop after a traumatic experience of childbirth is also known as ‘birth trauma’.

If you experience some PTSD symptoms while supporting someone close to you who’s experienced trauma, this is sometimes known as ‘secondary trauma’.

If you would like to know more about how My Family Psychologist can help, call us on 07801 079555 or email [email protected]

Family Therapy & Mental Health ServicesExpert Child Psychology & Parenting Support, Overcoming Anxiety, ADHD, and Trauma...
04/06/2026

Family Therapy & Mental Health Services

Expert Child Psychology & Parenting Support, Overcoming Anxiety, ADHD, and Trauma.

We also provide therapy for women 30-60 experiencing relationship trauma, depression, anxiety and emotional stress. Get compassionate help to heal from toxic relationships, divorce, betrayal, and emotional wounds.

Contact us on 07801 079555 to find out more.

Aversion Therapy is a psychological treatment technique that aims to modify undesirable behaviours by associating them w...
03/06/2026

Aversion Therapy is a psychological treatment technique that aims to modify undesirable behaviours by associating them with unpleasant stimuli.

Aversion Therapy is a form of behaviour therapy that utilises conditioning principles to discourage individuals from engaging in specific behaviours or habits. It involves pairing the targeted behaviour with an unpleasant stimulus (such as an electric shock or a foul smell), creating a negative association that can lead to a reduction or cessation of the behaviour.

If you like more information about this or how My Family Psychologists can help, then contact us on 07801 079 555 or [email protected].

Eye Movement De-Sensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy treatment that has been shown to be highly effe...
29/05/2026

Eye Movement De-Sensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy treatment that has been shown to be highly effective in treating a range of mental health issues, particularly those related to trauma. This therapy works by allowing individuals to process traumatic memories in a safe and controlled manner, helping them to reprocess these memories in a way that reduces their emotional impact and allows for healing to take place.

EMDR works by targeting traumatic memories stored in the brain and allowing individuals to process these memories in a way that promotes adaptive resolution. During an EMDR session, the therapist guides the individual to focus on a traumatic memory while simultaneously moving their eyes back and forth or engaging in another form of bilateral stimulation, such as tapping or auditory cues. The therapist guides the individual through a series of steps such as identifying the target memory, processing and stimulating the memory, and assessing the individual’s emotional response. This process helps to reprocess the traumatic memory and integrate it into the individual’s overall sense of self in a more adaptive way, and helps the individual to reframe the memory in a more positive light, allowing for healing and resolution to occur.

If you would like any further information, please contact My Family Psychologist on 07801 079 555 or email [email protected].

Problems that arise during infancy and early childhood may be indicative of underlying conditions or emerging pathologie...
28/05/2026

Problems that arise during infancy and early childhood may be indicative of underlying conditions or emerging pathologies. Challenges or delays in developmental milestones are of note, as well as any difficulties associated with feeding, sleeping, toileting, attachments, trauma, intellectual and neuro difficulties, and general behavioural or conduct problems.

Assessment and intervention at this stage is primarily conducted via observation and with the caregiver given this early stage in development. Typical problems encountered during the assessment process include social and communication difficulties, educational attainment challenges, and attachment and separation anxieties for example.

If you would like to know more about how My Family Psychologist can help, call us on 07801 079555 or email [email protected]

If underlying mental health or psychological difficulties have not emerged prior to this age, then they are sure to make...
27/05/2026

If underlying mental health or psychological difficulties have not emerged prior to this age, then they are sure to make an appearance at this challenging life stage, affecting both Teenager and Young Adults. Aside from the enormous physical and endocrinal changes the teenager experiences, difficulties with wider relationships in the community, with work or in romantic relationships come into focus with difficulties that can include; relationships and s*xual difficulties, body image, gender dysphoria, personality difficulties, mood and emotional difficulties, self-harm, and substance misuse. Risk and safeguarding become more of an issue as this age group may fall between the net of children’s and adult services.

Amongst girls aged between 17 and 19, one in four have a probable mental health condition (The Health Foundation, 2022)

Su***de rates for 15-19 year olds are the highest they have been in 30 years. There is an urgent for government support as the teenage su***de rate had jumped by over a third, (Disability Rights, 2022).

If you would like to know more about how My Family Psychologist can help, call us on 07801 079555 or email [email protected]

Thankyou to Geraldine for this recent Google review..
26/05/2026

Thankyou to Geraldine for this recent Google review..

Adults, Couples, and FamiliesAt My Family Psychologist, we work systemically, meaning that we understand the impact ment...
25/05/2026

Adults, Couples, and Families

At My Family Psychologist, we work systemically, meaning that we understand the impact mental health issues can have on Adults, couples, and families. We offer individual and couple’s therapy, along with solution focused family therapy to help you make sense of, family dynamics, sibling rivalry, relationship difficulties, grief and loss, and trauma for example. We also offer a full legal service for families, specialising in mediation and contact disputes, and marital and s*xual difficulties.

"Romantic love is biochemically indistinguishable from having a severe obsessive-compulsive disorder"

If you would like to know more about how My Family Psychologist can help, call us on 07801 079555 or email [email protected]

What can Solution-Focused Therapy help with?SFBT has been successfully applied when working with individual, couples, an...
23/05/2026

What can Solution-Focused Therapy help with?

SFBT has been successfully applied when working with individual, couples, and families. The problems it can address are wide-ranging, from the normal stressors of life to high-impact life events. For example, Family therapy puts emphasis on the importance of communication and understanding. In therapy, families explore and identify positive patterns and behaviours, and those which may contribute to distress

SFT allows for a goal-oriented focus to problem-solving by using the following incentives:

Change is constant and certain
Emphasis should be on what is changeable and possible
Patients must want to change
Patients are the experts in therapy and must develop their own goals
Patients already have the resources and strengths to solve their problems
Therapy is short-term
The focus must be on the future as opposed to a your history.
SFBT therapists aim to bring out the skills, strengths, and abilities that patients already possess rather than attempting to build new competencies from scratch.

If you would like to know more about how My Family Psychologist can help, call us on 07801 079555 or email [email protected]

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