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My Family Psychologist

Registered and Chartered Consultant Psychologist with 25 years experience.

My passion is to empower you to understand and maximise your own psychological wellbeing.

06/03/2026

We specialise in helping women aged 30–60 who are struggling with relationship trauma. Whether you’re coping with controlling behaviour, emotional abuse, divorce, or long-term relationship stress, our therapy sessions are tailored to help you recover, build resilience, and move forward confidently.

05/03/2026

What is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy?
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based therapy which can help to reduce distress and improve your ability to function.

CBT can be used with school-aged children and youth with a stronger focus on behaviour so can be used with children aged 4 and above. CBT helps children and youth become more aware of their thoughts, actions and feelings so they can view difficult situations more clearly and respond more effectively.

CBT is an effective treatment for a wide range of challenges, including depression, anxiety, eating disorders, low self-esteem, anger problems, obsessive compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder and symptoms

Research has shown that children and youth experiencing anxiety and depression are less likely to relapse when treated with CBT.

If you would like to know more about how My Family Psychologist can help, call us on 07801 079555 or email luisa@myfamilypsychologist.com

04/03/2026

Dialectical Behavioural Therapy

Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) is a type of cognitive-behavioural treatment.
The skills group focuses on how to:

manage attention (mindfulness skills)
manage and cope with emotions (emotional regulation skills)
deal effectively with others (interpersonal skills)
tolerate emotional distress (distress tolerance skills)
DBT has been adapted for the youth population and is an evidence-based treatment. DBT is especially effective for the following challenges and disorders which present in children in this age range:

Borderline Personality Disorder
Suicidal thinking or behaviour (su***de attempts)
Self-injury and other self-destructive behaviours
Anger and anger management
Problems with emotions (such as intense sadness or recurrent fear)
Impulsive behaviours that can be dangerous (such as reckless driving, recurrent unsafe s*x, etc.)
Difficulty building and maintaining healthy relationships
Chronic feelings of emptiness
Problems with substance use
Eating disorders such as bingeing and purging

If you would like to know more about how My Family Psychologist can help, call us on 07801 079555 or email luisa@myfamilypsychologist.com

03/03/2026

Thankyou to Joanna for leaving this lovely testimonial over on our Google page.

02/03/2026

Gaslighting – What to do when you spot it in your relationship

“To gaslight someone is to steal their reality, piece by piece.” — Robin Torres

If you have been on social media in the last few months (or years), you will have seen the phrase gaslighting.

Much like narcissism, it can be thrown around in contexts that don’t deserve it, making it a term that is often misused on social media. The phrase itself gets its origins from a 1938 play “Gaslight” by Patrick Hamilton, in which a husband manipulates his wife into doubting her sanity by dimming the lights in their home and then denying this when she notices.

Ergo, he is deliberately coercing her into thinking that her perception of reality is wrong.

The phrase “gaslighting” became clinically relevant in the 1960’s and started to gain traction online in the early 2000’s, making it a bit of a buzzword relating to control and emotional manipulation.

So, what is it clinically, and if you spot it in your intimate relationships, what should you do? read more here: https://myfamilypsychologist.com/gaslighting-what-to-do-when-you-spot-it-in-your-relationship/

14/02/2026

How to survive and thrive on Valentine’s Day

Do you dread February 14th? Rest assured, that’s understandable and totally normal. Research [1] has shown that people have extreme feelings towards the day: they either love it or they hate it! If you’re a singleton it can bring up feelings of being an outsider or magnify feelings of loneliness. Whereas if you’re in a relationship the expectations around the day, especially if your relationship is going through a tricky time, may feel you with dread. Here, though are five ways you can survive – and even thrive – on Valentine’s Day.

Read more here: https://myfamilypsychologist.com/how-to-survive-and-thrive-on-valentines-day/

13/02/2026

Adults, Couples, and Families

At My Family Psychologist, we work systemically, meaning that we understand the impact mental health issues can have on Adults, couples, and families. We offer individual and couple’s therapy, along with solution focused family therapy to help you make sense of, family dynamics, sibling rivalry, relationship difficulties, grief and loss, and trauma for example. We also offer a full legal service for families, specialising in mediation and contact disputes, and marital and s*xual difficulties.

"Romantic love is biochemically indistinguishable from having a severe obsessive-compulsive disorder"

If you would like to know more about how My Family Psychologist can help, call us on 07801 079555 or email luisa@myfamilypsychologist.com

11/02/2026

Problems that arise in early childhood may be indicative of underlying conditions or emerging pathologies. Challenges or delays in developmental milestones are of note, as well as any difficulties associated with feeding, sleeping, toileting, attachments, trauma, intellectual and neuro difficulties, and general behavioural or conduct problems. Assessment and intervention at this stage is primarily conducted via observation and with the caregiver given this early stage in development, and typical problems encountered include social and communication difficulties, educational attainment challenges, and attachment and separation anxieties for example.

If you would like to know more about how My Family Psychologist can help, call us on 07801 079555 or email luisa@myfamilypsychologist.com

09/02/2026

Why is sleep important and how can I improve mine?

Sleep is a vitally important part of everybody’s life and this article will explain why that’s the case, and how you can improve your quality of sleep. You are not alone in suffering from poor quality or lack of sleep: statistics suggest that one in three people has this problem.

Read more over on our blog here: https://myfamilypsychologist.com/why-is-sleep-important-and-how-can-i-improve-mine/

06/02/2026

Support for Relationship Trauma

We specialise in helping women aged 30–60 who are struggling with relationship trauma. Whether you’re coping with controlling behaviour, emotional abuse, divorce, or long-term relationship stress, our therapy sessions are tailored to help you recover, build resilience, and move forward confidently.

Contact us on 07801 079555 to find out more.

05/02/2026

Eye Movement De-Sensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy treatment that has been shown to be highly effective in treating a range of mental health issues, particularly those related to trauma. This therapy works by allowing individuals to process traumatic memories in a safe and controlled manner, helping them to reprocess these memories in a way that reduces their emotional impact and allows for healing to take place.

EMDR was first developed by psychologist Francine Shapiro in the late 1980s. Shapiro discovered the therapeutic benefits of eye movements when she noticed that certain eye movements reduced the emotional intensity of her own disturbing thoughts. This led her to develop a technique that involved guiding patients to move their eyes from side to side while simultaneously recalling traumatic memories. Over several years, Shapiro refined this technique and developed a structured protocol that has since been widely adopted and recognised as an effective therapy for trauma-related issues.

If you would like to know more about this, then please drop me a direct message.

04/02/2026

Family Therapy & Mental Health Services

Expert Child Psychology & Parenting Support, Overcoming Anxiety, ADHD, and Trauma

Specialised emotional support for women aged 30–60 dealing with relationship trauma, emotional abuse, and long-term stress.

Get compassionate help to heal from toxic relationships, divorce, betrayal, and emotional wounds.

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Monday	8am - 10pm
Tuesday	8am - 10pm
Wednesday	8am - 10pm
Thursday	8am - 10pm
Friday	8am - 10pm
Saturday	9am - 8pm
Sunday	9am - 8pm

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My Family Psychologist offers a complete service for your family's mental health care, from diagnostics and testing, to evidence-based therapies tailored to your needs. What is My Family Psychologist?My Family Psychologist is an evidence-based psychological service for families, adults and young people. Our team of psychologists, assistant psychologists, psychological therapists, and other mental health professionals have vast experience in working with families and young people.Who can access My Family Psychologist?We work with individuals, young people, adults, families and couples who recognise that something isn’t going quite well for them and recognise difficult areas in their life which they want support with. We encourage anybody to enquire to see how we can help.What services do we provide?We provide a range of evidence-based psychological therapies for problem areas such as anger, trauma, self-esteem, mood disorders, attachment, stress and adjustment, confidence and performance, social anxiety, relationship difficulties, s*xual dysfunction, personality functioning problems, and other mental health difficulties. We also work with those with learning difficulties and who have experienced substance misuse.