This week (Monday 11 November to Friday 15 November) is Psychological Professions Week, which is a brilliant opportunity to bring together psychological professionals, policy makers, and the public to connect and share their learning to maximise the benefit of the psychological professions to the communities they serve.
At LSCft, our psychological professions workforce are embedded in a variety of settings, from Talking Therapies, community mental health teams, inpatient wards, eating disorders and provide support across the lifespan. This week we are celebrating our amazing psychological professional colleagues and the invaluable work that they do by sharing stories from five of our colleagues.
Allan Gaze - Counsellor
Allan works in our Talking Therapies Service as a counsellor, a service that works with a range of clients aged 16 years and older who are presenting with anxiety and depression.
Counsellors usually work with clients where depression is the main difficulty, often underlying the depression is a range of reactions to life experiences, adjustments and losses that a service user is experiencing.
Jenny England - Senior Clinical Psychologist
Jenny works in one of our Community Mental Health Teams (CMHT) as a senior clinical psychologist, a team that aims to support the recovery of our service users in the community, enabling them to live as independently as possible.
The team works with people between the ages of 18-64, who experience severe and/or enduring mental health difficulties. Our CMHT consists of mental health nurses, psychiatrists, support time and recovery workers, occupational therapists, psychologists, and social workers.
Jake Walker - Pyshcological Wellbeing Practitioner
Jake works in our Talking Therapies Service as a psychological wellbeing practitioner.
Jake provides psychological support for individuals who are struggling with common mental health problems including anxiety, depression, panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
Karen Prince - Family and Systemic Psychotherapist
Karen works in our Eating Disorder Service as a family and systemic pyschotherapist.
Our Eating Disorder Service is an all age community service that works with people suffering a variety of different eating disorders including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder and other specific feeding or eating disorder (OSFED).
Shaesta Saleem - Cognitive Behaviour Therapist
Shaesta works in our Talking Therapies Service as a cognitive behaviour therapist (CBT).
CBT is an interactive therapy, with a focus on applying techniques like grounding, thought challenging and worry management to improve wellbeing. Working collaboratively with her clients, Shaesta helps them to identify unhelpful thought patterns, negative bias and core beliefs and use my clinical skills and knowledge to offer alternative, more helpful ways of thinking to reduce anxiety and depression.
If you are interested in joining our workforce, take a look at our live vacancies.
More information about the week can be found on the Psychological Professions Network website.
