Dr Gurpreet Kaur, Chartered Clinical Psychologist. BSc, MA, DClinPsy., C.Psychol

About me

Hello. My aim as a therapist is to help make the therapeutic experience a meaningful one for my clients. I appreciate that it is not easy talking about personal issues and stressors and because of that I strive to work at a pace that feels comfortable to my clients, within a warm, empathic and confidential space.

Working with clients of all ages and backgrounds, I am able to help people with a wide range of psychological difficulties. I use several approaches to help inform my work with clients including:

• Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
• Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR)
• Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)
• Mindfulness
• Compassion focused therapy (CFT)
• Narrative therapy
• Solution focussed therapy (SFT)
• Positive psychology
• Counselling

I am particularly interested in trauma, both single event and multiple traumas. However, since I have worked with clients since 2001, I am pleased to be able to offer effective psychological therapy for a number of mental health difficulties for young people and adult, including the following:

• Anger
• Anxiety (phobias, health, panic, OCD, social anxiety, generalised anxiety disorder)
• Bipolar disorder
• Challenging behaviour
• Depression
• Eating difficulties
• Grief and Bereavement
• Low self-esteem, shame, self-criticism
• Medically unexplained symptoms
• Pain
• Parenting
• Perinatal distress
• Personality disorders
• Psychosis
• PTSD
• Relationship difficulties
• Self-harm
• Stress and worry

I understand that it might not be easy to label an experience into one of the categories above and am happy to work with clients who feel a sense of emptiness, sadness or who feel stuck. I am experienced in working cross culturally and take care to respect and work within existing belief systems which may be spiritual and/or religious.

I am happy to have a free brief chat about my services to those who may be interested.