Colin Matthews - Chartered Psychologist

Biography

I am a highly experienced Chartered Psychologist based in Bransgore in the New Forest. I have over 20 years of experience working both privately and in the NHS. I was psychologist for Christchurch CMHT between 2003 and 2007 and again from 2020 - 2021 when I helped out during COVID. I work with people with a wide range of presentations from depression, anxiety, OCD and trauma through to psychosis.

I work with TV production companies and provide psychological support and advice.

I am also a qualified coach and work primarily with people in senior management positions. I have a specialist interest in working with occupational issues including stress at work. Prior to becoming a psychologist I worked as a software consultant for banks in the City of London and Canary Wharf and was a consultant in Visual C++ with Microsoft.

Career Highlights

• Individual therapy for clients with a range of complex mental health presentations and culturally diverse backgrounds
• Occupational Health Services. Supporting staff off work through mental health issues including trauma, stress and depression to recover from their problems and return to work.
• Working psychologically with a range of hospital staff including consultants, junior doctors, clinical managers and staff nurses, and with general practitioners.
• Clinical supervision of staff including employees of welfare services, hospital counselling staff, OTs, nurses and psychologists.
• Coaching of Chief Executives of Local Health Authorities.
• Provision of psychological expertise, guidance and information to multi-disciplinary teams.
• Psychological wellbeing checks with NSW Fire Brigade.
• Stress management and change management workshops with Qantas.
• Support and advice to HR on the management of restructure, redeployment, redundancy and staff performance issues.
• Psychological support to staff going through redundancy and redeployment, and at exit interviews.
• Trauma support for various agencies including New South Wales (NSW) Police, NSW Ambulance Service, St George’s & NAB Banks, Australia Post & Emergency Service call centre staff. Support included attendance at trauma scene, debriefing of staff, counselling support & management support.
• Expert Witness testimony and psychological reports for legal purposes
• Coaching senior police officers to the rank of Assistant Commissioner
• Coaching of Executive Directors of NSW Justice Health (who provide clinical services to prisons
• Provision of psychological support on various reality TV programmes including TOWIE, Celebs Go Dating and Your Song

I was also an active member of the committee for the Open University Psychological Society (OUPS) and advising psychologist to the mental health magazine “Uncovered”.

I tailor my therapy to the individual. I work with adults (18+) and young people (15-17).

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