Dr Heidi Hand

As an experienced Clinical Psychologist and Neuropsychologist, I bring experience from a wide range of settings, including inpatient and outpatient mental health services, specialist eating disorder services and neurorehabilitation. I am particularly interested in the mind-body connection and my experience allows me to understand the unique interplay between the brain and body. 

As well as the specialist areas above I also have extensive experience working with various difficulties including  anxiety conditions, depression, trauma, emotion regulation and pain. Another area of particular interest is Persistent physical symptoms including FND.

My experience has included both NHS and private organisations. I have worked as the lead for a large therapy team and as national Clinical Lead for a rehabilitation service, as well as developing my own private practice. My leadership and service development experience has taught me a great deal about what people value from psychological services. I hope to bring this knowledge into supervision, particularly for clinicians developing their own psychology service or private practice.

I am an integrative practitioner and utilise various models in my work including CBT, ACT, schema therapy and CFT as well as DBT and IFS informed work. I have a specialist interest in EMDR and am accredited with EMDR Europe. I also currently provide neuro-rehabilitation services.

Ultimately, I aim to offer a warm, thoughtful and reflective space that supports growth, confidence and clinical development. If you would like to arrange brief introductory chat to see if I'm a good fit, please do get in touch. 

I have completed supervisor training with the University of Southampton.