CBT & EMDR therapies
COGNITIVE BEHAVIOUR THERAPY & EMDR THERAPY
BILLY-ANNE HAMBLETON: BA (Hons) Psychology, RMN, PG Dip CBT, EMDR Adults & Children Part 1-3
I have worked in the field of psychological health since 1982, successfully providing therapy to children, young people, adults and families, in inpatient and outpatient NHS settings. I am experienced in treating the full range of mental health problems at each level of complexity. I work with GPs, paediatricians, health visitors, school nurses and teachers; I teach and supervise others in my speciality.
I am a BABCP Accredited Cognitive Behaviour Therapist and EMDR Therapist and during assessment work collaboratively with my client to decide how we might address what is getting in the way of contentment.
I strive to provide only what would be good enough for my own children or loved ones, were they to be on the receiving end! I am an evidence-based practitioner who attends regular courses and receives excellent clinical supervision from Accredited and Consultant practitioners in order to continue to offer first class therapy to adults and children.
About Billy-Anne Hambleton:
Following my psychology degree at The University of Manchester, I completed my psychiatric nursing and then specialist Child & Adolescent training at The Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Hospitals in London. I was the Senior Ward Manager of the adolescent unit for a number of years before moving to the Midlands where we had and raised our children.
Here, I began my work in outpatient Child & Adolescent Mental Health. Since then I have completed my Post-Graduate Diploma in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy at The University of Liverpool, Part 1-3 EMDR Training at Birmingham University and then Part 1-3 Child & Adolescent EMDR in London.
My current NHS work is predominantly with those who experience severe anxiety in the form of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, panic, phobias, social anxiety, health anxiety and post-traumatic stress resulting from abuse or a single incident.
I see those with eating problems, low self-esteem and body dysmorphic disorder. I address sleep problems and persistent pain.
I am skilled in working with a variety of relationship problems, whether with couples, parents or families, using Systemic CBT on a regular basis.
Working with young people helps a clinician to more effectively understand the evolution of difficulties an adult might experience. For the past few years I have enjoyed treating adults independently whilst working as an affiliate to a provider in Birmingham.
It is my pleasure to work hard with my client to better understand what is resulting in distress or difficulty, to then perhaps expand their choices by sharing what I know might help, to enable him or her to recover from life experiences or manage what is in their life to their satisfaction. My aim is to do this in as few sessions as is possible, again, treating others as I would wish to be treated myself.
No problem is too small or too big to address.
For more information please look at the following links:
For CBT
www.babcp.com - The lead organisation for CBT in the UK
http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/mentalhealthinfoforall/treatments/cbt.aspx - What is CBT?
http://www.patient.co.uk/health/Cognitive-Behaviour-Therapy-(CBT).htm - What is CBT?
For EMDR
http://www.emdrassociation.org.uk/home/index.htm - The professional association of EMDR clinicians
http://www.getselfhelp.co.uk/docs/EMDR.pdf - What is EMDR?
http://www.emdrassociation.org.uk/home/children_and_adolescents.htm - EMDR for children
CBT, EMDR or both?
You will have read what CBT and EMDR are and how each may help.
To enable you to make an informed choice with your therapist, note that:
CBT is a collaborative intervention which requires you to work between sessions to collect evidence of what happens when you think or behave in a particular way. You might be asked to record in diary form what has happened with regard to the issue we are working to address.
Often described as a talking therapy, CBT is more accurately a talking and doing (behavioural) therapy. Together the therapist and the client design behavioural experiments which you would put into practice between sessions, and changes can be measured so it can be readily seen how therapy is working.
Sometimes a person may ask for help when he or she has experienced events they do not want to talk out loud about. EMDR does not require you to go into detail; it is possible to process disturbing memories without having to discuss distressing aspects of the past.
I would take sufficient time to gain an understanding of what the problem is, what you are hoping for, what the options are and how we might proceed. During assessment, I might ask you to fill in forms to enable us to measure change over time. I might give you written material or suggest resources which might help during and after treatment.
Throughout, I would encourage you to ask questions to make sure you are as happy with the intervention as possible – I hope that every client leaves each session glad that they came.
