Stephen Holland
Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist.
Clinic Role
- providing CBT for students at Newcastle University experiencing common mental health difficulties including Major Depression, Post-Traumatic Stress and Anxiety Disorders
- developing and delivering skills workshops based on cognitive-behavioural methods for undergraduate and postgraduate students
- providing Clinical Supervision for trainee Clinical Psychologists and Cognitive Behavioural Therapists placed within our clinic
- contributing to teaching on Newcastle University’s PGDip in CBT and DClinPsy programmes
- supporting an upcoming research trial/case series
Background experience
I am a Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist accredited with the BABCP, working in Newcastle University's Psychological Therapies Training and Research Clinic since February 2020. Prior to this, I spent nine years within NHS Primary Care Mental Health Services (IAPT) in Northumberland and Newcastle upon Tyne, initially as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner from 2011-2014 before progressing to a High Intensity CBT therapist from 2014-2020.
I have built close ties to Newcastle University since studying Psychology BSc as an Undergraduate, going back to complete a PG Certificate in Low Intensity Psychological Therapies and returning a second time to train on the PG Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. I remain an associate on the CBT Diploma as an academic tutor and provide Clinical Supervision for students on the programme.
Specific interests
- treatment of Complex Depression (chronic, highly recurrent and resistant to standard treatment)
- methods of adapting standard CBT and the delivery of therapy to meet the needs of complex cases
- the impact of prolonged and repeated traumatic events and how people heal and recover from complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder