Sonia Shah Psychotherapy Services

I am psychoanalytic, psychodynamic psychotherapist. I currently divide my time between working as a Principal Psychotherapist in Secondary Care Community Mental Health Team in the NHS and Private Practice. I am experienced in working with a wide range of mental health problems including psychosis, personality disorders, clinical depression and severe anxiety. I have extensive training and experience in working with victims of domestic abuse and serious sexual assault as well as experience in Primary and Secondary Care interventions, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Trauma Focussed interventions. As a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist I am trained to work with long term, twice weekly psychotherapy, face to face or on the couch as well as short term interventions. I have 12 years of experience in various NHS settings, including working in an Early Intervention for Psychosis Service, and an in-patient mental health services. I have facilitated and co-facilitated long terms psychotherapy groups. I am trained in CBT level 1 for PTSD and Level 1 CBT for OCD. I trained to Level 2 in DBT. I am qualified Group Mentalisation Based Therapy (MBT) practitioner which are both NICE Guidelines recommended interventions to use with Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder (EUPD), however they are useful interventions for anyone who is struggling to maintain emotional regulation. I am also an Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprogramming (EMDR) therapist.

Why Choose Me?

• BSc Hons Psychology
• Postgraduate Diploma, and Masters of Clinical Science Psychotherapy – UKCP accredited and registered
• Senior Accredited Registrant with National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society (SNCPS Acc.)
• Doctor of Clinical Science in Psychotherapy
• MBT Group practitioner -Kitemark Register on British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC)
• EMDR therapist
• Enhanced DBS checked
• 12 years of Clinical experience across the NHS and in Private Practice, and Voluntary and Community Sector

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