Dr Jake Hollis
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About me
Are you living with a chronic health condition, trauma, chronic stress, or burnout? These kinds of difficulties can cause us to feel trapped in vicious cycles of overwhelming emotions, racing thoughts, and deeply unpleasant physical sensations. Life can start to feel bleak, and we can find ourselves feeling stuck, defeated and broken. By working together to come up with a shared understanding of how you arrived in this scary situation, we can create a plan to reverse this spiral. Over time, we can help your mind and body to move into a healing state, freeing up energy for you to reconnect with what matters most to you.
I specialise in trauma and the mind-body connection. As a Clinical Psychologist with lived experience of ME/CFS, long covid, chronic stress and burnout, I know first hand how debilitating and isolating these difficulties can be. I make use of the latest in neuroscience and evidence-based psychotherapies to help improve people's physical and mental health.
Paradoxically, learning to "make room" for your difficult thoughts, feelings and physical symptoms in the here and now can make it easier for them to fade away in future. Drawing from the latest neuroscience research, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and somatic psychotherapies, we can support you to learn to live in your body - even when it isn’t a pleasant place to be. Over time, practices to drop the struggle with difficult symptoms can help enormously. This is a bit like slowly depriving the fire of oxygen.
During our sessions, we can explore patterns that might be keeping you stuck, such as self-sacrificing, people-pleasing, hyper-responsibility, striving and perfectionism. Using Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy, we can get to know these different "parts" of you and unburden them from their rigid duties. We can also use trauma-focused therapies like EMDR and somatic psychotherapies to help your mind and body to process adverse experiences. This can help your nervous system to shift from an energy-draining “threat mode” into “rest and restore mode”. Most importantly, we will work collaboratively to focus on what feels most important to you, at your pace.
Training, qualifications & experience
I hold a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Surrey (PsychD). I also have a Master of Science in Psychology (MSc) from the University of Glasgow. I completed my undergraduate degree (BA) at the University of Cambridge.
I have worked in a range of health services in the NHS and the charity sector for over six years. I have worked with a range of people including:
- People living with Long Covid;
- People living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome;
- People living with Fibromyalgia;
- People who are burned out;
- People living with chronic pain;
- People with neurological conditions;
- People living with dementia;
- People living with PTSD and complex PTSD;
- People who are depressed;
- People diagnosed with anxiety disorders;
- People with severe and enduring psychological difficulties, including diagnoses of psychosis and personality disorder;
- People with offending histories.
Member organisations
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
long covid; fibromyalgia.
Therapies offered
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Fees
£120.00 per session
Free initial online session
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
Please get in touch if you would like to book a free 15-minute discovery call to chat with me about how I may be able to help you.
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Further information
Please see my website for more information about me and my approach: www.fatiguepsychologist.com
