Dr Rebecca Knowles Bevis
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About me
About me
I am a Chartered Clinical Psychologist and BABCP Accredited Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist with over 10 years’ experience of working therapeutically with people who are experiencing a wide range of emotional difficulties. I am based in Oxfordshire, and work in both private practice and the NHS. I am registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) and I am a British Psychological Society (BPS) Chartered Psychologist.
How I work and what to expect
My approach to therapy is client-centred, compassionate, honest and collaborative, and I place great importance on the development of a safe and supportive therapeutic relationship which I believe to be the key to successful therapy. In the first few sessions, we work together to identify your goals for treatment and the most helpful and appropriate way to achieve these. Throughout the therapy, I will work with you to help you develop a better understanding of your difficulties, and to learn strategies and skills you can use to help you improve your current wellbeing and to protect yourself against similar difficulties in the future. During therapy, we will frequently review our progress to make sure things are moving in the right direction, and to discuss anything that you would like to change about the work.
My clinical practice is strongly evidence-based and I draw on a range of therapeutic models according to the particular needs and preferences of each individual client. I use a predominantly cognitive behavioural approach (CBT) in combination with techniques from other models including mentalisation-based therapy, cognitive analytic therapy, schema-focused therapy and compassion-focused therapy.
What sorts of problems can I help with?
I am skilled in the assessment and treatment of a wide range of psychological difficulties. I work mostly with adults, and have a special interest in perinatal psychology and the particular issues faced by expectant and new parents from conception through to the end of the first year after the birth of a baby. I am especially interested in working with new families and supporting people with the transitions into parenthood, and I use the Watch, Wait and Wonder model to enhance the parent-infant relationship.
How can therapy help?
People come to psychological therapy for many different reasons, and it can be helpful in several different ways. For some people, it's about finding a safe place to explore or make sense of painful feelings and experiences. Other have a specific problem they want to address. Whatever your reason for seeking help now, I would like to acknowledge the courage required for you to take this first step.
If you have any questions at all, or are wondering whether therapy might be able to help you, please don't hesitate to get in touch.
Training, qualifications & experience
Key Qualifications
- Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (2007, University of Manchester)
- Postgraduate Diploma in Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies (2009, University of Manchester
- PhD in Experimental Psychopathology (2004, University of Manchester)
- BA Hons 1st Class in Experimental Psychology (2001, University of Oxford)
- Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (2011, University of Sheffield)
Other Training
I am committed to maintaining and updating my knowledge and skills, and I attend regular professional training events. Examples of some of the recent training I have undertaken are below:
- Supervisory relationships: delights and dilemmas (2022)
- Responding to unexpected and traumatic death: cognitive approaches to traumatic grief (2022)
- Compassion-focused therapy for grief (2022)
- ACT for self-esteem (2022)
- CBT for birth trauma and tokophobia (2022)
- Advanced schema therapy for complex PTSD (2022)
- CBT for Menopause (2021)
- Adapting CBT for Online Delivery (2021)
- Chairwork: Basics & Beyond (2021)
- Integrating systemic, attachment and narrative approaches (2021)
- Mindful parenting in difficult times (2021)
- :Leading with Kindness and Compassion in Healthcare (2021)
- Working with troublesome mental imagery across disorders (2021)
- Compassion-focused therapy for perinatal distress (2017)
- Compassion-focused therapy for shame-based trauma (2016)
- Watch, Wait and Wonder: enhancing parent-infant relationships (2016)
- Handling disclosure of historic childhood sexual abuse (2016)
- Using imagery in CBT (2016)
- Advancing schema work (2015)
- CBT for survivors of childhood trauma: Oxford18-session model (2015)
- Mentalisation-based treatment (2014)
- Integrating CBT with systemic ideas (2014)
- Parental mental health (2014)
- Effective CBT with military veterans (2012)
- Introduction to Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (2012)
Experience
I began my career in clinical psychology in 2004, and have worked in the NHS for over ten years. Most of my experience is in providing a specialist community-based psychological assessment, therapy and consultation service for adults who are experiencing mental health problems. I am skilled in the assessment and treatment of wide range of emotional difficulties, and I have a particular interest in perinatal mental health and wellbeing, and infant mental health. This area is the specific focus of my private practice.
I have a keen interest in clinical research and worked as an academic clinical psychologist at the University of Sheffield (2009-2011) and as a research tutor on the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology programme at the University of Oxford (2016-2022).
I am also an experienced clinical supervisor, and am on the British Psychological Society's register for supervisors of applied psychology practice (RAPPS). I provide supervision to a wide range of psychological practitioners in both NHS and private settings.
Member organisations
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Perinatal mental health
Infant mental health
Fertility and infertility
Pregnancy loss perinatal bereavement
Birth trauma
Therapies offered
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Fees
£120.00 per session
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
A 50-minute therapy appointment costs £120. There is also the option of a longer 90-minute initial assessment appointment which costs £180, and which includes a detailed summary report. The initial appointment is particularly important because it provides an opportunity for me to understand what is troubling you, for you to get a feel for what it would be like to work with me, and for us to decide together whether I am the right person to help you. I will always try to help you find an alternative psychological therapist where necessary.
When I work
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I offer in-person appointments in Wallingford on Mondays, and online appointments Tuesday-Thursday. My clinic hours are 9.30-2.30.
Further information
Where I work
I work from a very peaceful therapy clinic at Howbery Park, just outside Wallingford. This welcoming, discrete and confidential setting has easy access and free parking, and is easily accessible by public transport as well.
