Saskia Ohlin
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About me
Chartered Counselling Psychologist specialized in Schema therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Compassion focused therapy with more than 25 years experience in the treatment of mental health issues. Registered with all major insurance companies.
I see clients privately as a counselling psychologist and supervisor in CBT and Schematherapy. Furthermore I am a Director at the Academy of Schema Therapy where we train people for accreditation in Schema Therapy with the International Society of Schema therapy.
CBT is a form of therapy that helps people to function better and ultimately helps them to develop their own coping skills. It teaches people to understand the way their thoughts, feelings and behaviour are related and how that might keep them anxious or depressed. By finding different perspectives and by replacing unhelpful behaviour with constructive behaviour the client and the therapist work together towards concrete goals, which the client sets out at the start of therapy.
CBT is the first treatment of choice for depression and most anxiety disorders (generalised anxiety disorder, panic disorder, OCD) according to NICE (National Institute of Clinical Excellence) guidelines.
Schematherapy is an innovative therapy dealing with so-called schema's: longstanding problematic patterns of feelings, thoughts and behaviour that originated in childhood and remain to cause distress into adulthood. Schematherapy looks at basic emotional needs of people that were not met in childhood and continue to not be met into adulthood. Everybody has schema's but some people have more maladaptive schema's that hinder them in their lives. For example in the domain of feeling disconnected and rejected by people or feeling that you have to be extremely focused on pleasing others and forget about your own needs. Other schema domains refer to feeling that you always need other people to help you in life or that you feel you have to be very strict and can never be spontaneous or that you have few limits and find it very hard to stick to rules and boundaries. All of these issues generally cause emotional problems in people's lives and in their relationships.
For more information please look on:
www.cbtregisteruk.com
www.babcp.com
www.academyofschematherapy.co.uk
www.schematherapysociety.org
www.schematherapy.com
Training, qualifications & experience
Saskia Ohlin (MSc PsyD CPsychol) has an MSc degree in clinical psychology and a doctorate in counselling psychology and further qualifications in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and Schema therapy.
She is a chartered Counselling Psychologist with the British Psychological Society (BPS) and the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and a fully accredited member of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP). She has advanced accreditation in Schematherapy and is a supervisor with the International Society of Schema therapy (ISST).
Saskia Ohlin has more than 20 years of experience in both in-and outpatient services of psychological and psychiatric departments within the NHS with various patient groups. She brings this extensive expertise to her private consultation.
www.hcpc-uk.org
www.bps.org.uk
www.schematherapysociety.org
Member organisations
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British Psychological Society
The BABCP is the lead organisation for Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in the UK. Membership is open to anyone with an interest in the practice, theory or development of CBT. BABCP also provides accreditation for CBT therapists. BABCP accredited members adhere to the Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics in the Practice of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies, and are willing to be scrutinised in this adherence as required.
The HCPC are an independent, UK-wide health regulator. They set standards of professional training, performance and conduct for 16 professions.
They keep a register of health professionals who meet their standards, and they take action if registered health professionals fall below those standards. They were created by a piece of legislation called the Health Professions Order 2001.
Registration means that a health professional meets national standards for their professional training, performance and conduct.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
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Additional information
If you have private medical insurance please note that Saskia Ohlin is registered with most companies who will reimburse the fees.
When I work
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
Further information
Please contact Saskia Ohlin on saskia.ohlin@gmail.com or 07731178636.
