I know how overwhelming it can feel to reach out for support — especially when life already feels heavy or confusing. My aim is to make psychological insight more accessible, less clinical and more human.

I'm passionate about bringing mental health knowledge into everyday spaces — so it’s not just something we talk about in therapy rooms, but something we understand, share and use to support ourselves and others.

Here’s how I do that:

1. Online Psychology Workshops
Practical, accessible sessions that you can work through at your own pace — designed to help you better understand issues like anxiety, burnout, perfectionism and emotional overwhelm.
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2. Mental Health Training & Community Workshops
Whether you’re looking for staff training in a university/school, workplace, care setting or youth organisation, I can design bespoke sessions tailored to your needs. My focus is on building mental health awareness, neuro-affirming and trauma-informed approaches in real-world environments — where this knowledge makes a difference.

3. A Wider Mission
Through blog posts, online content and speaking engagements, I’m committed to creating spaces where people feel less alone, more informed and better equipped to understand themselves and support others.

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 draws on her experience of working in the NHS for over 15 years, assessing, understanding and treating a breadth of diagnoses and psychological difficulties with people of all ages across the lifespan (children, adolescents and adults). She works with people on a 1-1 basis, with families and systemically with the environment surrounding the person.

Dr Dot has 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, psychosis, addiction, self-harm and suicidality.

Through her Dr Dot practice, she has had the opportunity to help guide many people to turn their lives around and make huge changes through the resources she provides.

Dr Dot also works as a Principal Clinical Psychologist for the NHS, where she helps children, young people and their families in island communities.

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)

Advanced Psychology Training

• Adapting Therapy for people with Neurodevelopmental Conditions

• ADOS-2: Autism Assessment 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 - in adults and young people

• Trauma Training: Safety and Stabilisation / Prolonged Exposure

• 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)

• Family-Based Therapy for Eating Disorders in Children and Young People

• CBT for Psychosis

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

• Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT - Advanced Practice Seminar)

• Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT - 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