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About Zara
First and foremost, I consider it a priority that you feel comfortable to discuss personal and sensitive matters in confidence. Secondly, that you develop a tangible understanding of your problems so that you can make the changes needed to improve your circumstances significantly.
I have over 20 years experience of working therapeutically in health and social care settings such as the UK wide organisation Turning Point, the NHS and leading London-based private practice, Efficacy.
I first began practising in Oxford with the Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre at the Warneford Hospital, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, and I now offer appointments within my own practice both online and at The Practice Rooms, Summertown, Oxford, UK.
Core qualifications and training
BABCP Accreditation (British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies)
Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Practice – Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: King’s College, London (merit), clinical placement at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery: Department of Neuropsychiatry
BSc (Hons) Psychology with French
NOCN Level 3 Certificate, Conflict Resolution and Mediation, Plater College, Oxford.
Clinical hypnotherapy training with The Optimum Health Clinic, London, UK. The Optimum Health Clinic is an award winning (CAM Magazine “Outstanding Practice Award”) integrative medicine clinic specialising in ME/CFS.
Supervision
As best practice psychotherapists are required to receive regular supervision with appropriately qualified supervisors and as a requirement for accreditation with the BABCP. I receive supervision with Helen Kennerley, prior Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Director at the nationally renowned OCTC and author of the book Overcoming Anxiety and Overcoming Childhood Trauma from the popular Overcoming' self-help series. The Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre is considered one of the leading clinics in the UK for delivering training in CBT and runs the Oxford University Postgraduate Diploma in CBT