Caroline McSherry,Cognitive Behavioural Nurse Therapist/psychotherapist

Training, qualifications & experience

I have extensive experience over the past 26 years working with the full spectrum of emotional, Psychological and Behavioural difficulties. I have trained and worked in an acute hospital setting for 10 years before moving into the community for the past 16 years.

As well as Individual 1:1 Therapy for adults, older adults, teenagers and older children I have run workshops with Military personnel on Deployment Stress and Management, Members of the clergy on Stress and Burnout, in-house training for groups of teachers on Stress and Burnout Ex-Military and non-military on Anger, Depression and Anxiety.  I have hosted in-house training with full Mental health teams, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, G.P.'s, Social Workers and Police personnel on Identifying personal Secondary Trauma and Burnout/Stress and alleviating.

In the past 10yrs a lot of experience has been gained in treating the symptoms that have occurred as a result of bullying (past and Present) and in the area of technology/smartphone addiction.  I have been treating this for a long number of years even though its negative effects have only become public recently.  I have also added another technique to all the evidence based ways in which I treat Trauma reactions where you may not want to discuss the details of the trauma itself.

Qualifications:

Oxford Post Grad Diploma in Cognitive Therapy
BSc (hons) CMHN
Specialist Practitioner in Psychological Injuries (NMC)
D.H.ed Mental Health Nurse (pt 13

Professional Therapy/Other Training

Therapy, Coaching and Counselling approaches include Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Schema Focused Therapy, Behaviour Therapy, Mindfulness, Psychodynamic Therapy, Brief Solution Focused Therapy, Cognitive Therapy (post graduate dip and fully accrediated) EMDR (pt 1), Trauma Focused CBT and Enhanced Reliving.  Rewind technique for trauma management (cert. based).


Couples Counselling
NVQ 1V Management
Detection and treatment of Substance Misuse
Extensive training as a supervisor
Basic EMDR
Running Anger Management Groups
Working with Trauma and other Complex Clients
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
Building Resilience
Persistent Pain
Cognitive Therapy for Chronic Insomnia
Developed and run 3 day Flying Phobia Courses
Treatment and prevention of anxiety in Children
Early life Trauma and Children
Compassion Focused CBT
Mindfulness Training

Attachment informed therapy for Personality Disorder and many more.

Other areas of counselling I deal with

Military related PTSD, can offer Skype therapy.

Further information

Car parking immediate to office.

Therapy time is easy to book just email me or phone me or request a phone call from myself.  I will ask only basic questions over the phone and we will set up an appointment suitable for yourself.  The first appointment will be slightly different from other therapy sessions in that I will help you get a big picture about how your life is currently, and ask questions about the difficulties you have been experiencing.  We also need to work out what it is you want to achieve through therapy and how, step-by-step this would work.  I will help you with this as you may worry about  how to verbalise the emotions you have been experiencing and may have many questions for me.