Victoria Watton

As a Clinical Psychologist I have come to specialise in complex mental health presentations, particularly in young adults and adults. In my NHS career I have worked with individuals experiencing first episode psychosis and related issues, I then went on to work in a bespoke service set up for the families under the Ockenden Review (the UK's largest independent review into NHS Maternity care) and most recently I have worked with families experiencing anxiety in relation to childbirth, trauma following childbirth and or bereavement. I believe the thread that runs through my career has been the ability to work with people who have experienced a lack of emotional safety and bring them to a place where they can feel safe, regulated and connected to the world.

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My therapeutic approach takes a trauma informed perspective, in particular I make use of trauma specific intervention such as EMDR. Furthermore, I lean towards relational therapies that look to make sense of how we come to experience difficulties in relation to others and the environment around us, thus my therapy is often informed by schema therapy and psychoanalytic therapy. Finally, I am trained in various CBT and third wave CBT methodologies (ACT and CFT); in specific I have specialist training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis (including Bipolar disorder)