Our values are all about having realistic and high standards, being collegiate, collective, inclusive, supportive and open to change. We want to help make a difference in the world with a shared vision and ways forward.

Dr Fiona Kennedy

BA (Hons) M Clin Psychol D Clin Psych C Psychol AFBPS
Chartered Clinical Psychologist,
Accredited CBT Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer
DBT Therapist

Fiona is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Director of GreenWood Mentors Ltd. She specialises in the many consequences of childhood trauma including PTSD, dissociation and effects on the development on the self. Fiona also enjoys consulting to groups and individuals on performance maximisation and change management. She has worked as an NHS Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Director of Service, a university Honorary Lecturer, and is also an accredited cognitive-behavioural Practitioner, Trainer and Supervisor. She now practises independently, integrating CBT, DBT ACT and CFT in her work with clients and her writing. She volunteers each year consulting to an Indian NGO on their programs for young people from disadvantage and evaluating outcomes.

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She delivers professional training at many levels in specialist topics such as dissociation, PTSD, mentoring, coping with traumatic events, and overcoming obstacles to maximum performance. She has presented and published nationally and internationally, including three books for therapists and for clients. Her research has focused on changing addictive behaviour, reactions to traumatic events especially dissociation, and service delivery issues. Published work includes the Wessex Dissociation Scale and the Life Skills Assessment Scale as well as the CBT model of dissociation. Fiona was at the forefront of using virtual methods for psychological assessment and intervention.

As Chief Examiner for the British Psychological Society (BPS) she helped ensure candidates entering the profession from other countries conformed to UK standards. Services Fiona has created have received a Clinical Excellence Award from BUPA and citation as an example of good practice by the National Audit Office.

Dr Gill Green

BA (Hons) M Clin Psychol D Clin Psych C Psychol AFBPS
Chartered Clinical Psychologist

People say that I’m very easy to work with; I’m down to earth and practical (I call a spade a spade) but I’m also warm and supportive. I’ve been a clinical psychologist since qualifying in 1987. My roots are firmly in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT); I trained in Oxford at the time when CBT was being developed and I was fortunate enough to be supervised by Aaron Beck, widely acknowledged as the founder of this approach. CBT has developed since that time and I regularly undertake training and supervision to broaden my skills.   I include approaches such as mindfulness and other elements of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people with a wide range of difficulties, including anxiety, depression and relationship difficulties.

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As well as working with individual clients as a clinical psychologist, I also work with organisations worldwide, coaching and training business leaders and their teams to lead and perform better (thereby achieving their business objectives).I am passionate about health and wellbeing at work, and I am conducting research with several organisations, looking at how increased work pressure can lead to bullying, sickness and absence.

Following the 2016 German Wings tragedy, I am also developing training resources for a number of airlines, to increase awareness of mental health problems amongst pilots. As part of this I am involved in training pilots to offer peer support to their colleagues. I am a chartered clinical psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological society, and I am registered with the Health and Care Professions Council.

Dr Stephen Markus

BA (Hons) M Clin Psychol D Clin Psych C Psychol AFBPS
Chartered Clinical Psychologist

I am a warm, insightful person, with over 12 years of experience working as a psychologist in various settings. An accredited Cognitive Behavioural Therapy practitioner, I specialise in providing skills-based approaches to help manage emotions. This helps us cope with challenging events and adverse life experiences. We can also use these skills to achieve happier and more stable interpersonal relationships.

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I am familiar with managing longstanding complex difficulties as well as common problems resulting from work and life stressors. I work with interpersonal problems, loss, and transitions of various kinds, both personal and work-related.

I offer individual help to improve self-esteem and confidence; to enhance interpersonal effectiveness and resilience, and to address self-damaging behaviours such as drug and alcohol misuse.

I work with a variety of people including professionals, to help them to overcome obstacles to maximum performance, realise their full potential, and achieve their goals.

I develop and deliver individual and group programs targeting chronic fatigue and stress-related problems. I help people build resilience and enhance productivity whilst achieving balanced lifestyles.

I provide supervision to clinicians and to managers, as well as mentoring and training for the workforce. I design staff training to enable people to achieve professional clinical qualifications, and I help them to develop post qualification.

I am particularly interested in CBT and mindfulness and use mindfulness-based CBT in much of my work. I can offer training in the therapeutic use of mindfulness and how to combine it with CBT.

Mindfulness and CBT have been shown through research to be effective in treating anxiety, depression, eating problems, PTSD, chronic pain and many other conditions.

Dr Jonathan Hutchins  

BA (Hons) M Clin Psychol D Clin Psych C Psychol AFBPS
Chartered Clinical Psychologist

I am a Consultant Clinical Psychologist who is accredited in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and I am a Consultant in Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing therapy (EMDR). I work with my clients to help them to overcome any previous traumatic experiences that may be impacting on them in the here and now.

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We do this in a safe and effective way, in order to help them to manage difficult emotions and to have better relationships. I also work with many problems including anxiety, depression, addictions, family problems etc.

I offer CBT supervision and training.

Marie Wassberg  

Accredited CBT Therapist

Marie offers CBT/TF-CBT/DBT/PE for individual therapy, group therapy, supervision and training in settings such as Social Care, Mental Health, Schools, Care Homes and other professionals. Marie previously worked at the Priory North London where she was the Lead Therapist on the Child and Adolescent Mental Health inpatient ward.

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Marie has been a very welcomed guest lecturer at universities in Sweden, a facilitator at workshops, conferences and training events throughout the UK (NOTA and BABCP), in Sweden (Schools, Social Services and Care homes), the USA (ATSA),  and in Romania and Mexico.

Marie has been involved in developing many DBT- informed programmes in different settings, mainly for children, adolescents and young adults, both in Sweden and in England. She has offered training and supervision to other professionals who work with children and adolescents on how to improve relationships and regulate emotions in a DBT-informed approach.

As a therapist, Marie has worked for many years with children and adolescents who have been sexually abused, suffered from complex PTSD/trauma and/or who have displayed harmful sexual behaviours. Over the last few years Marie’s client group has increased to include those who deliberate self-harm, have suicidal thoughts, suffer from depression, or have psychosis among other difficulties. As a qualified Social Worker, her work also involved child protection, child-in-need, unaccompanied minors and asylum seekers. Marie also has experience of working with children and adolescents presenting challenging behaviours, those autism spectrum disorder (especially high functioning), and ADHD.

Marie Wassberg qualified as a Social Worker in 1999 and to date, has experience working in Social Services in both England and Sweden. In 2003, Marie qualified as a Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (CBT), studying at Goldsmiths University in London with Professors Windy Dryden and Michael Neenan. She is registered with Social Work England and is an Accredited Cognitive Behaviour Therapist with BABCP (British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies) in the UK. Marie also has a Diploma in Dialectic Behaviour Therapy (DBT), gained in 2010, where she trained with Dr. Elizabeth Malmquist and Dr. Anita Linnér in Sweden, as well as with Professor Alan Fruzzetti and Professor Jill Rathus in the USA. She is also trained in Trauma Focused-CBT (TF-CBT), including Supervisor training, in 2013, with Dr. Laura Murray (USA), in Prolonged Exposure (PE) in 2012 with Prof. Edna Foa (USA); and DBT for Schools (STEPS-A) in 2018 with Dr. Elizabeth Dexter-Mazza and Dr. James Mazza (USA).

Linda Hollick

DBT Therapist

Linda lives and works on the Isle of Wight and has a background of working in secondary mental health services for many years. She now undertakes private work on behalf of Greenwood Mentors. Linda is trained in DBT as well as in the ‘Integrative’ approach to therapy. Linda is also a qualified hypnotherapis, and tailors her approach to her clients. She has a wealth of experience in helping with anxiety and stress disorders, childhood traumas, PTSD, OCD, low self-esteem, relationship problems, emotional dysregulation and body-image problems.

Dr Sam Christmas

BSc, D Couns Psychol AFBPS
Counselling Psychologist

I have a keen, specialist interest in helping those who are experiencing mood and anxiety difficulties, in the context of an ADHD diagnosis. I also have specialist skills helping those who experience difficulties with tinnitus.

I offer a confidential and non-judgemental space in which to explore the difficulties that you are facing currently and have faced in the past. I aim to create a collaborative relationship, in which we can work together towards your goals. I believe in providing a friendly and supportive environment to help you gain a greater understanding of yourself, navigate obstacles, and make changes.

I am an integrative psychological practitioner and I draw from several therapeutic models, such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and more.

I am a fully qualified counselling psychologist, registered with the HCPC and I have extensive experience helping those with low mood, anxiety difficulties and those who struggle to find emotional balance. I have worked in many NHS mental health services in London and for the Government of Jersey. I have also worked privately in the UK, for businesses and in the third sector.

Abi Bridgeman

BABCP Accredited Cognitive Behavioural Therapist and Supervisor (CBT)
ACAT Accredited Cognitive Analytic Therapist (CAT)
Dialectical Behaviour therapist (DBT)
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR & EMDR-AI)
Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN)

With over 25 years practicing psychotherapy in UK public and private sectors I’ve been privileged to work with people facing a range of complex mental health issues as well as problems arising through life stressors. These include depression, anxiety, OCD, eating difficulties, low self-esteem, trauma (PTSD), complex trauma (C-PTSD), mood swings, personality issues and relationship challenges.

People say I’m friendly, pragmatic and easy to get along with. Drawing on people’s strengths and values, using evidence-based approaches, I take a structured and goal-orientated approach to therapy, tailoring it in line with people’s unique needs and preferences.

I also incorporate third wave cognitive therapies in my practice, such as acceptance and commitment and compassion focused approaches. Whilst therapy is a courageous undertaking, I believe the journey can be creative, rewarding and fun!

I specialise in working with adults who experienced trauma in childhood (C-PTSD), whose emotions, relationships and lifestyles are affected as a result. I enable people to connect with what matters to them in life, through enhancing emotional stability, processing traumas and establishing healthy meaningful relationships with themselves, with others and within their wider communities.

I live in Jersey, and also work for the government health service, offering therapy to adults with multifaceted needs. I share a lead role in our Dialectical Behaviour Therapy service and offer CBT clinical supervision.

Julian Edwards

Julian Edwards

Julien is a Clinical Psychologist with over 10 years post-qualifying Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service (‘CAMHS’) NHS experience working across inpatient and community settings in North London and has subsequently worked in private practice.  He has developed expertise working with children and young people and their families/carers, including those with Autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions such as ADHD. He provides support to parents where there may be a variety of challenges at home including, but not limited to, child-to-parent aggression & abuse and/or significant sibling conflict. He is committed to helping people make meaningful changes in their lives through effective psychological therapy and he works with a broad range of ages and complex presentations.

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I understand that seeking help is a difficult and courageous step to take. I work with kindness and compassion, and I aim to create a safe, trusting and validating environment to enable change and empower children, young adults and parents/carers.

When I first meet parents and children/young people, we jointly evaluate together what they may be struggling with and I help to provide clarity; we then develop goals together and collaboratively devise a treatment plan and approach. For me, it is really important to think about what is the life that the person or family would ideally like to lead and how to get there.

Some of the approaches that I am trained in, and use, include:

  • ACT for anxiety and mood difficulties, along with help to find meaning and value in life.
  • NVR Parenting groups which have been shown to be effective to help parents of children young people with neurodevelopment disorders or behavioural challenges, and/or who may be adopted or have experienced developmental trauma.
  • CBT for low mood, stress, anxiety, sleep difficulties and post-traumatic stress.
  • DBT for problems with regulating emotions, relationships, self-harm, suicidal thoughts and urges. DBT with Parents and Parenting.
  • PE for Adolescents and Trauma-Focussed CBT for post-traumatic stress.

In addition, I have significant experience assessing and working with children and young people with neurodevelopmental disorders such as ADHD and Autism. Based in London, I am linked in with Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists, Speech and Language Therapists, Educational Psychologists, Family Systemic and Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists. I have run many groups for both parents (Non-Violent Resistance, Autism Awareness and DBT for Parents of Adolescents) and Young People (such as anxiety, stress, DBT etc).