Fiona MacLeod

About me

I offer individual therapy for children, adolescents and adults, alongside family work where required. I also work with organisations and schools, offer training in understanding trauma in the workplace and offer clincial supervision.

• Brainspotting Qualification: Trained in Brainspotting
• Professional Body: Health Care and Professionals Council (HCPC), Association of Clinical Psychologists (ACP UK), British Psychological Society (BPS)
• Works with: Adults
• Other Specialist Areas: Fiona is a Senior Clinical Psychologist who worked as a psychologist in the NHS from 2008-2021. Her initial training was a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, then following her MSc she completed the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. She has worked with a range of clients both as in-patients and in the community, including children and families, adults, military veterans, people with Complex Post-Traumatic Stress and people who have experienced significant pain and loss and who struggle in their relationships. Fiona worked for a number of years in CAMHS and has also worked in adult services in the community and in the third sector, including specialist trauma services for veterans and people bereaved by homicide. She is trained in a number of evidence-based therapies, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Compassion-Focussed Therapy (CFT), Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR), Dyadic Development Psychotherapy (DDP) and Brainspotting, and draws on these and on psychodynamic and systemic therapies in her work with adults, children and families.

Areas of Specialization

• Anxiety
• Attachment
• Brainspotting
• Cognitive Behaviour
• Complex Trauma
• Depression
• EMDR
• Focal Dystonia
• Grief and Loss
• Group Work
• Identity
• Internal Family Systems (IFS)
• Limiting Beliefs
• Low Self-Worth
• OCD
• Pain
• Panic Attacks
• Phobias
• Positive Psychology
• Psychological Trauma