Neill Bartlett - online and in-person psychotherapist

As a psychotherapist, I have a great deal of experience both in private practice and in the NHS of working with people living with chronic pain, with depression, anxiety and trauma. I also have considerable skills in helping people with problems related to overeating.

As well as seeing people on a 1:1 basis, I have a long history of working with small and larger groups around particular health issues. For instance, I currently support a number of businesses and NFP organisations affected by the COVID pandemic.

My approach to emotional and physical suffering is to try to help those people I work with to tackle their often long-standing problems whilst promoting self-acceptance and value-based action. An assumption I bring to my practice is that in order to make lasting changes in our lives we need firstly to accept where we actually are. This often means challenging some of the assumptions we might make about ourselves and perhaps about other people too. I always try to bring a sense of openness, of curiosity and of compassion to the therapeutic process.

I have a diverse range of influences in my work and don't think of any model of therapy as the best in an unqualified way. I registered as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with the UKCP in 2003. Subsequently, I have studied contemporary forms of cognitive-behavioural therapy at Oxford and Bangor universities. I have a post-graduate qualification in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and have trained in acceptance and commitment therapy to an advanced level.

As an online therapist, I use zoom as my principal platform. I am proficient at using StarLeaf in my NHS work.

In 2022, I will complete an MA in Philosophy with the Open University.

I am in regular clinical supervision.

PLEASE NOTE: My consulting room is up one small flight of stairs.