Dr Chris James

Dr. Chris James is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist with 14 years’ experience working within a diverse range of NHS settings (Adult Mental Health, Youth Service, Specialist Sleep Centre) with adolescents and adults, across a broad clinical population (mild to severe). He has been running his own successful private practice for the past 5 years and provides specialist assessments, consultation, supervision and training, therapy and evidence-based treatment within his practice. Dr. James is an Associate Fellow member of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and is fully accredited as both a practitioner and supervisor of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) by the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP). He has also completed full training in EMDR.

Dr. James is a registered provider for leading private healthcare providers including AXA, Aviva, Bupa, Cigna, Vitality and WPA. He has a number of specialisms, including post-accident/injury psychological trauma, workplace stress, anxiety-based conditions, low self-esteem and insomnia. Dr. James is experienced in Medicolegal assessment and report writing for Civil Court proceedings (e.g. personal and workplace injury, RTAs) as well as CICA (Criminal Injury) and employee wellbeing assessments. Dr. James has completed in full the BPS Expert Witness Training programme and is an expert panel member for numerous leading MROs. He regularly provides training events and consultation to other professionals and is an Honorary Lecturer at Cardiff University on the South Wales Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology. Dr. James is incredibly passionate about supervision and consultation and is on the BPS approved supervisor register, is BABCP accredited in CBT supervision and has a PG qualification in supervision. He regularly provides supervision training to NHS staff. More recently, Dr. James has been trained in CBT for Insomnia (CBT-I) by leading experts in the field and has been mentored by an Expert Somnologist within a specialist sleep centre.

Profession: Psychologist

Courts or Tribunals: Clinical Negligence, Employment, Immigration and Asylum, Mental Health Tribunals, Occupational Health, Personal Injury

Age groups: Adult

Psychological Specialisms: Adult Mental Health Problems, Domestic Abuse, Substance Misuse, Trauma and PTSD

Therapies offered: CBT, Counselling, EMDR, Mentalisation Based Therapy, Psychodynamic, Psychological Supervision