Dr Claire Wilson
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About me
The Psychology Place is a private Clinical Psychology clinic based in Hull, East Yorkshire. Our Clinical Director Dr Claire Wilson, is a highly experienced HCPC Registered Senior Clinical Psychologist with over 16 years of experience.
People may seek to work with a Clinical Psychologist for a variety of reasons. If you are struggling to cope with difficult emotions, stressful life events, trauma, work/life balance or problematic relationships you may benefit from some space to explore your issues and gain more understanding and insight into the cause of your distress. Psychologists work to offer both an increased self awareness and also a plan of how to address your difficulties in a way that improves your quality of life. We are trained in a variety of approaches meaning we can tailor our approach to suit your needs and deliver effective intervention.
To introduce myself further, I am a highly qualified Clinical Psychologist having worked in both the NHS and in private practice with a range of issues but often specialising in trauma-related difficulties of varying types. Clinical psychologists undertake 6 years of training just to qualify (BSc degree in Psychology and then a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology). I have gone on to undertake further therapeutic training and I am also an accredited EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) Practitioner and Consultant-in-Training and accredited CAT (Cognitive Analytic Therapy) Practitioner. I work on the principle that whatever approach we are using building a safe and trusting therapeutic relationship is essential and we will regularly review our work together and check it is suiting your needs and helping you to reach your goals. Collaboration is key to this therapeutic journey.
Although I use a variety of evidence-based approaches, I am passionate about the EMDR offerings we have available and how they may most powerfully serve you and your needs.
WHAT IS EMDR?
EMDR is an evidence-based and effective therapy suitable for a range of mental health problems, emotional difficulties and blocks. Trauma can be at the root of many mental health problems or emotional blocks and barriers. EMDR allows us to address the root cause of these difficulties, and allow our brains natural healing mechanisms to process and integrate unresolved experiences and memories or feelings that are holding you back from your best present and future life.
Dr Wilson has 3 different EMDR offerings, which can be discussed following an initial assessment of need and history of the problems.
1) Individual EMDR therapy sessions - suitable for longer term issues, higher disruption to daily life, and allowing exploration on a deeper level during a more gradually paced therapy usually offered on a weekly or fortnightly basis. This would usually take place over a minimum of 4-6 months and be an ongoing process during which we would review what was helping and what you wanted to gain from our work.
2) EMDR Intensives - these offer a 'boost' to your progress and can either be part of a longer-term therapy or offer a different approach altogether where we work in a more focused and intensive block to help you get to where you want to be in the shortest time possible. Intensives are extended therapy sessions over a shorter period of time. This could look like 2-3 hour blocks a week or a block of 3 half-day sessions a week. You get access to high quality, evidence based therapy delivered by a highly skilled and trained professional, in a format allowing you to go deep more quickly, to process what is holding you back and take time to address your issues in an accelerated format. This usually works best for people who feel they have generally functioned quite well but have a specific hurdle or issue they wish to address including for example a traumatic event, phobia or emotional difficulty (e.g. PTSD, trauma, depression, panic, social anxiety or anxiety) or a repeating pattern or block they want to get to the root of. The format allows you to take dedicated time out from everyday life, to really focus on you and what you need to work on.
3) EMDR-Informed Coaching - this is a bespoke coaching and mentorship plan where we will work with a variety of tools from Psychology, coaching and utilise EMDR to help us along the journey to make deep changes. We will focus on your blocking beliefs and feelings that hold you back in your life and career - perhaps you keep holding yourself back, suffer from performance anxiety or imposter phenomenon? Do you lack confidence and feel you aren't progressing as you should or have strong emotional reactions to situations you do not always understand or feel able to control? If so EMDR-informed coaching may be for you. I want you to ask yourself the following questions and we can work through this in a block of six 1:1 coaching sessions exclusively with me: Where are you upper limiting yourself in life? What old stories and beliefs do you want and need to release that no longer serve you? Where in your life and work are you getting in your own way? Where are your energy drains and where do you want to direct your energy instead? We can also blend this with the intensive format and give you some powerfully-charged time to break free and break through these limiting beliefs.
If you would like to discuss further how we can help, please get in touch and let's explore some more!
Training, qualifications & experience
All our clinicians hold a
Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (DClinPsy) and a BSc Hons Psychology
Clinicians also hold additional qualifications and have training experience in therapy models such as:
EMDR accredited practitioner
CAT/Cognitive Analytic Therapy Practitioner
Compassion Focused Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy / CBT
Dr Wilson has a background of extensive NHS experience (2006-2018) and has continued to update her skills and training in her specialist areas. Dr Wilson is registered with the HCPC/Health Care Professions Council (PYL24212)
She is DBS checked (enhanced)
Dr Wilson our Director has:
Experience of working in NHS since 2006 and as a qualified psychologist since 2009 working in secondary services since this time. During this time she offered therapy, and also supervision and training of other staff, research and teaching on doctoral programme of university.
Her private practice started in 2012 working with a range of difficulties including therapy with adults and children, expert witness work and occupational health support.
Senior leadership roles in NHS including complex adult trauma such as traumatic birth, childhood trauma, military trauma, occupational trauma and support for uniformed services as a trauma specialist.
I have experience of working in residential care with young people with complex trauma and attachment needs plus additional support needs such as Autism.
Dr Wilson is also experienced in Armed Forces Compensation Scheme Assessments with a background in working in military trauma/PTSD.
I assess personal injury cases, criminal injuries compensation authority cases and medical negligence cases in terms of psychological medico legal assessment.
I have a particular specialism in trauma-related psychological injury in cases such as clinical negligence or personal injury and am regularly instructed by solicitors to undertake such assessments. I hold the Cardiff University Bond Solon certificate in both Civil and Family Court Work.
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