Peter Hodgkinson offers psychological therapy on referral from general practitioners and psychiatrists.
He works from a cognitive-behavioural standpoint with anxiety, mood and other disorders.
Cognitive therapy - enabling individuals to identify and change disabling patterns of thinking is known to be a powerful treatment, particularly for depression. Peter uses these techniques coupled with traditional behavioural treatments proven effective with anxiety conditions, to generate short treatment regimes.
His specialist areas are psychological trauma and bereavement-related problems.
Peter has many years experience of using cognitive-behavioural interventions for those individuals who fail to make a normal recovery from the aftermath of traumatic events such as road traffic accidents.
He was influential in the development of guided mourning techniques in the UK, a behavioural treatment for individuals whose grief has become abnormal in its shape or intensity.
