Dr Dot understands how overwhelming it can be to reach out and seek help, let alone take the first steps to discuss your difficulties in therapy. Dr Dot aims to make psychology more accessible and convenient by offering more than your “traditional therapy”:

1. Dr Dot offers downloadable Online Therapy Programmes (which you will be able to work through on your computer/mobile phone, in the convenience of your own home, in your own time).

2. Dr Dot runs Outdoor Therapy Groups which you can sign up to. Dr Dot aims to create safe spaces for people to come together, feel less alone, connect, talk, feel heard and feel supported - if interested, get in touch to find out when the next one is.

3. Dr Dot is passionate about getting mental health knowledge out into the world and creating communities which are mental health aware and trauma-informed. Whether you want Dr Dot to come out to present/run workshops for your team within your work place, do mini-workshops for kids in schools/summer camps, work with staff teams in care services, she can build a package in line with what you need.

4. Dr Dot also offers 1-1 Psychological Therapy - get in touch to see if she has any available spaces.

Dr Dot is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist with the British Psychological Society (BPS) and is a registered member of the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).

Dr Dot’s qualifications are:

• Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (DClinPsy), University of Edinburgh

• Masters in Psychological Therapy (MSc), University of Dundee

• Postgraduate Certificate in Low Intensity Psychological Interventions (PGCert), University of Surrey

• MA (Hons) Degree in Psychology, University of Edinburgh

Dr Dot spends time individualising care to meet people’s needs in line with their specific difficulties and past experiences to create lasting change. She will strive to create a warm and compassionate environment for people so they feel they can open up, share and collaboratively work with her to reach their personal goals. She helps individuals to explore and understand why they are struggling in their lives / relationships and you will work together to change any unhelpful patterns which are keeping you stuck. Dr Dot will then help people to develop coping tools which aim to empower and build resilience to create a richer, fuller and more meaningful life.

Dr Dot draws on a combination of evidence-based psychological therapies, including Schema Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). She also draws on her experience of working in the NHS for over 12 years, assessing, understanding and treating a breadth of diagnoses and psychological difficulties with people of all ages across the lifespan (children, adolescents and adults and older adults).

Dr Dot worked in both community settings and psychiatric wards, predominantly with people experiencing complex and chronic mental health problems, including childhood trauma, interpersonal difficulties, eating disorders, severe anxiety, chronic depression, self-harm and suicidality.

Following her time in the NHS, she moved into private practice (Dr Dot Limited) where she has had the opportunity to help guide many people to turn their lives around and make huge changes via online and outdoor therapy.

Dr Dot is also a Schema Therapist working towards accreditation with the International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST), and other roles include working part-time for Schema Therapy School and the NHS.

University Qualifications

• Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (DClinPSy), University of Edinburgh

• Masters in Psychological Therapy (MSc), University of Dundee

• Postgraduate Certificate Low Intensity Psychological Interventions (PGCert), University of Surrey

• MA (Hons) Degree in Psychology, University of Edinburgh

Professional Registration

• Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)

• British Psychological Society (BPS) – Chartered Member

• Association for Counselling and Therapy Online (ACTO)

• Association for Coaching (AC)

Advanced Psychology Training

• Schema Therapy Training

• Advanced Clinical Skills in Compassion-Focused Therapy

• Compassion-Focused Therapy for Grief

• Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for PTSD and Complex PTSD

• Trauma Training: Prolonged Exposure

• Trauma Training: Safety and Stabilisation

• Skills Training in Affective and Interpersonal Regulation for PTSD

• Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples

• Attachment Theory Training

• Behavioural Activation Training

• CBT for Insomnia and Sleep problems

• CBT for Personality Disorders

• Enhanced Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Eating Disorders (CBT-E)

• CBT for Psychosis

• Imagery Training: Working with Imagery in CBT and Imagery Focused Therapy for Psychosis

• Interpersonal Psychotherapy (Advanced Practice Seminar)

• Cognitive Analytic Therapy (Advanced Practice Seminar)

• Mindfulness-Based Interventions

• Mentalization-Based Treatment

• Training in Domestic Abuse

• Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)

• Skills-Based Training on Risk Management for Suicide Prevention (STORM)

• Advanced Certificate in Online and Telephone Counselling

• Advanced Certificate in Coaching Practice

Outdoors Training

• Outdoor Therapy Training

• Mountain Leader Training

• Open Water Swimming Coaching

• Outdoors Emergency First Aid Training