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Staff Profile

Stephen Holland

Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist

  • Address: Psychological Therapies Training and Research Clinic
    School of Psychology
    Newcastle University
    4th Floor; Dame Margaret Barbour Building
    Wallace Street
    Newcastle upon Tyne
    NE2 4DR
Background

I am a Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist, fully accredited with the BABCP and I have worked in Newcastle University's Psychological Therapies Training and Research Clinic (PTTRC) 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. 


Within the PTTRC, I offer full courses of CBT to students at the University and provide clinical supervision to the stage 1 and stage 3 elective trainee Clinical Psychologists on placement within the clinic.


I am an Academic Tutor on the Postgraduate Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and module lead for "PSY8049 CBT for Depression". I provide clinical supervision and personal tutorials for the trainee CBT Therapists on the programme. I also contribute to the CBT fundamentals and Depression teaching on the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology.


Qualifications:

2016: Postgraduate Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (awarded with Distinction); Newcastle University

2011: Postgraduate Certificate in Low Intensity Psychological Therapies (awarded with Distinction); Newcastle University

2009: Psychology BSc Hons (Second class, upper division 2:1); Newcastle University


 

Teaching

I lead "PSY8049 CBT for Depression", a module on the Postgraduate Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. I also contribute teaching to the following modules:


PSY8047 Fundamentals of CBT

PSY8048 CBT for Anxiety Disorders

PSY8052 Professional Practice


Additionally, I contribute teaching for the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, including workshops on formulation in CBT, and Major Depression.

Research