Dr Georgie Heath

I am a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist with experience working in the NHS, private and voluntary sectors. I employ an empathic, warm and nonjudgmental approach to therapy and love working collaboratively with people to improve their wellbeing. I recognise the importance of building a strong therapeutic relationship and aim to help the people I work with feel listened to and understood.

The first few psychology sessions will focus on finding out more about you and what you are hoping to work on in therapy. During these sessions we will work to develop a shared understanding of what may have led to your difficulties and what might be keeping them going (known as a psychological formulation). This understanding will be used to create an individualised treatment plan tailored to your needs. Once a formulation has been developed, psychology sessions will focus on helping you to move forward by overcoming the obstacles that may be keeping you "stuck". Sessions will often involve agreeing on between therapy tasks to help you continue to make positive changes outside of the therapy setting.

I am skilled at treating a range of mental health difficulties including eating disorders, anxiety disorders (encompassing OCD, social anxiety, panic disorder, generalised anxiety disorder, and separation anxiety), trauma/ PTSD, low mood, poor self-esteem, and emotion regulation difficulties. My specialist areas are working with eating disorders, anxiety disorders, and trauma.

Within my NHS work, I have enjoyed providing clinical supervision for clinical psychologists, trainee counselling psychologists, trainee psychiatrists, and trainee clinical psychologists. In addition I lecture on the University of Surrey doctoral clinical psychology programme.

I offer a range of NICE guideline recommended therapies including: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement & Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR), Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT),  Narrative Therapy, CBT specialised for Eating Disorders (CBT-E) and Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT). I believe in tailoring therapy to meet people's needs, and may draw on a range of different therapeutic techniques and models in my work. I offer short or long term therapy depending on preference.

Please call or email me if you would like an appointment. I offer a free 10-15 minute phone consultation to find out more about your presenting concerns, talk about your hopes for therapy, and to see whether I would be the right person to meet your needs.

For specialist eating disorder therapy please see www.treatingdisorders.com for more information about the therapies I offer.