Hi, I’m Dr Christina
As an independent Psychologist, I provide a whole-person, holistic and integrative approach to promote healing and bring an end to human suffering. My services are tailored to meet the needs of adolescents and adults who have experienced adversity, trauma, attachment wounds, and loss. I also specialise in Autism, Perinatal Psychology, Parent-Infant and Family Relationships, supporting transitions to parenting, bonding and responding to childrens development needs.
My offerings are informed by my own healing journey, and the gaps I experienced in health care, both as a person seeking therapies and as a professional providing services within the system. My approach includes adapted, alternative and innovative approaches which re-awaken, re-connect, and re-integrate the body, mind, heart and soul.
I take a non-diagnostic, anti-pathological, trauma-informed approach, standing against labelling and stigmatisation. I do not ‘diagnose’ or use the terms ‘disorder’ or ‘mental illness’ as it is often harmful and unhelpful to perceive people’s life challenges as bio-chemical imbalances that require medication, or life long limitations that are unchangeable.
As a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, I have supported thousands of people within Community, Inpatient, Perinatal & Specialist Trauma Services through the provision of direct therapies, team formulation, consultation, reflective practice, professional training, and clinical supervision.
I specialise in working creatively to support, understand and heal the full spectrum of challenges associated with Complex Developmental Trauma, Post Traumatic Stress, and Perinatal Psychology. This includes providing specialist psychological support through assessment, consultation and trainings for organisations and professional service staff, including those impacted by vicarious trauma. This includes Police, Education, Military personnel, NHS staff, Psychologists, Therapists and other Health & Wellbeing Practitioners.
Individual Therapeutic input is suitable for various challenges, including but not limited to Emotional, Psychological, Spiritual and Body Based-Somatic issues, including; Worry, Stress, Post Traumatic Stress, Addictive Patterns, Tension, Exhaustion, Low Mood, Fatigue, Grief, Complex Developmental Trauma, Burnout, Vicarious Trauma & Psycho-Spiritual Emergence.
Therapeutic support begins with an initial assessment of approximately 3 therapeutic hours which will inform the unfolding therapy plan. Therapeutic plans are changeable and responsive to your changing needs and may include a combination of Integrative Psychotherapy, Dyadic, Developmental, Spiritual, Sensory, and Somatic Body-Based Therapies, including Breathwork, Compassion & Trauma-Focused Approaches, Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR), Internal Family Systems (IFS Informed) and Soul Integration.
Therapies can be booked directly through the consultation links here which take you to the Booking Platform.
My Training Journey
I am a Consultant Clinical & Holistic Psychologist & Trauma Specialist with training across the disciplines of Science, Psychology, Somatics, and Spirituality. I am passionate about combining wisdom from multiple modalities to support Health and Healing, leaving no stone unturned.
My Academic Qualifications and Professional Training over the past 20+ years include an initial Forensic Science degree, a Professional Certificate in Youth Justice, a Masters in the Psychology of Education, a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and Bond Solon Expert Witness Certifications. With additional recognised training in evidence-based interventions for trauma and dissociation, including full training in Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) for working with Children, Adolescents & Adults, and Ego State Therapy, Parts Integration and IFS Informed Approaches, approved by EMDR Europe, with active Membership of EMDR Association UK & Ireland.
I have also studied and practised Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), CBT, Psychodynamic & Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT), Solution Focused, Family Therapy & Systemic Practice. Alternative experiential training in Scotland at Lendrick Lodge, including Breathwork, Rebirthing, and Shamanism with Stephen Mulhern and Peggy Dylan, further Shamanic Practice in Cornwall at The Healing Tree Centre with Derek Gane, in addition to Reiki and various schools of yoga.
Following a foundational 200-hour Hatha Vinyasa and Ashtanga yoga teacher training in India, I continued my spiritual search and completed further specialist training with renowned teachers. Restorative Yoga with founder Judith Hanson Lasater; Sensory Awareness Training for Yoga Attunement (SATYA levels 1-3) with Tias & Suraya Little of Prajna Yoga, Kundalini Yoga with Gurmukh and Gurushabd of Golden Gate, Special Yoga for Special Children with Jyoti Manuel, Yoga Therapy for Addictions with Shaura Hall, Trauma Informed Yoga (TIY) with Atria Tan, and Pregnancy Yoga with Janine Hurley.
I have recently completed further training in Family Constellations with Vida Healing, and am undertaking Internal Family Systems (IFS) with Somatic Psychology for Trauma Transformation with Dr Zandra Bamford of Therapy North West.
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