About Thomas

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I am an experienced psychologist with a private practice in Lancaster. I qualified as a Psychologist in 2008 and over the years I have undergone extensive post-qualification training in a broad range of evidence-based psychological therapies including CBT and EMDR. For fourteen years I worked as an NHS psychologist in community mental health services for adults with severe mental health difficulties, working with complex presentations and managing clinical risk. From 2014 I combined this NHS role with independent practice in South Cumbria and North Lancashire. I now work in full-time private practice based in Lancaster where I work online with clients from all over the UK. I offer expert psychological care drawing from a range of specialist therapies, honed over many years of practice in the NHS and private sector.

In my NHS career, I developed experience of offering therapy for many kinds of problems while working across a range of different NHS services in the North of England. I worked in community mental health teams for working-age adults, acute crisis services, and inpatient psychiatric settings. I developed expertise in working with anxiety disorders, depression, post-traumatic stress, complex trauma presentations, eating disorders, major dissociative disorders and psychosis.

I am a registered Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).

I am a Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society (BPS).

I run my own private practice Wellbeing Psychology based in Lancaster.

• 2003: Graduate Diploma in Psychology - University of Staffordshire.
• 2007: MSc in Counselling Psychology - University of Wolverhampton.
• 2008: Post-MSc Diploma in Counselling Psychology - University of Wolverhampton.
• 2010: CBT with Psychosis Modules 1-3 - Association for Psychological Therapies.
• 2012: CBT with Eating Disorders - Association for Psychological Therapies.
• 2013: Parts 1-4 in Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing Training - EMDR Extra.
• 2014: Psychometric Measures and Neuropsychology for Practitioner Psychologists - British Psychological Society.
• 2016: Practitioner, Supervisor and Trainer in Behavioural Family Therapy for Psychosis - Meriden Family Programme Birmingham & Solihull NHS Trust.
• 2018: Compassion Focussed Therapy Training – Balanced Minds delivered by Chris Irons.
• 2022: Excellence in Written Evidence - Bond Solon Training - the legal training company
• 2024 (pending): Postgraduate Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy - Greater Manchester Mental Health - Manchester University.