Dr Alan Grieve, Consultant Clinical Psychologist (Adult and Child +12)

Training, qualifications & experience

Dr Grieve gained a BSc (Hons) in Psychology in 2003 and completed his Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Edinburgh University in 2010. He is a chartered member of the British Psychological Society and is a registered Clinical Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council. Dr Grieve is also an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society.

Clinical Experience

Dr Grieve has provided psychological assessment and therapy to individuals with complex mental health problems using cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).

He has experience of helping people with cognitive behavioural therapy, solution focused therapy and eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing therapy (EMDR). He is trained to the top level for EMDR.

Dr Grieve also has experience in the following areas:

• Supervision of Clinical Psychologists and MSc students
• Training and consultation to professionals
• Completing personal injury work for national private rehabilitation companies
• Being a reviewer for an international peer-reviewed journal
• Previous Associate Editor of the Clinical Psychology Forum. This is the most widely read journal by Clinical Psychologists in the UK
• Being the senior therapist on an MRC funded multi-site randomised controlled trial of EMDR in people with learning disabilities. This was a UK wide study and was organised through Edinburgh Napier University.

Dr Grieve has comprehensive experience of working with children and adolescents and this has been through supervised placements on doctoral training, as well as post-qualified experience of working with children and adolescents over 12 years of age. Dr Grieve also developed the protocol for the randomised control trial of EMDR in adults with learning disabilities. The protocol was based on a large body of trauma literature in children and he is now very familiar with this literature and how trauma work differs in its application from adults to children.

Dr Grieve has lengthy experience in working with neuropsychological rehabilitation and has worked with severe head injury and issues of anger management and adjustment to permanent disability.