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.

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.

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.

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 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).

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).