OUR THERAPISTS

Founder

Emilie has been a qualified psychologist for over ten years after starting her career in psychology working at the National Spinal Injuries Centre, where she learned valuable insights into the importance of connection, identity, and belonging, when considering psychological wellbeing and adjustment.

She later worked in South London with children and adolescents with unremitting anxiety disorders, growing an awareness of systemic work and family dynamics.

In her training career Emilie worked in learning disabilities, in the psychological assessment of elective plastics and bariatric surgery, and forensic care.

Post-qualification Emilie worked in a medium secure forensic hospital for offenders detained under the Mental Health Act. She was responsible for running analytically informed supervision sessions for the nursing teams.

Emilie has also worked in Occupational Health, including offering consultation with services operating with high sickness rates and absenteeism, and providing teaching and training on workforce wellbeing.

Emilie continues to work as a therapist in adult mental health, offering assessment and intervention for complex trauma and chronic psychological distress.

Emilie has been working for the courts as an Expert Witness for approximately eight years, gathering experience in the criminal and family courts. She has produced over one hundred reports in this field of work.

Emilie’s therapeutic approach is informed by relational and analytic approaches, having trained with the Institute of Group Analysis.

Emilie is registered with the HCPC , registration number PYL31395.

I started my therapy career in 2005 as an integrative therapist, completing a Diploma in Counselling, followed by a Masters at York St John’s University. My first experiences in working with addictions (or misuse) of alcohol, gambling and disordered eating was in charitable organisations, giving me a solid grounding as a therapist. I later trained as an adult psychodynamic psychotherapist at the Tavistock.

I began working in CAMHS in 2019 and then in 2021 transferred to the Adult Psychological Therapies Team (Secondary Mental Health Service) working with a wide range of service users. As my work is psychoanalytically informed psychotherapy I concentrate on how a person’s past can still influence them now, looking at patterns of intra and interpersonal relations that are generally unconscious and bringing them into awareness. There is a focus on dreams and fantasies and what they might be trying to tell you. Two years ago I completed EMDR training for Trauma / PTSD.

Paul Stockwell is a systemic and couples therapist. Paul is not presently taking on referrals.

Jacinta is a group analyst and psychoanalytic psychotherapist (IGA, UKCP) based in Leeds, West Yorkshire. She primarily works with minoritised and/or marginalised groups and individuals in-person and online within the NHS, charitable, and private sectors; namely therapy for people who have experienced trauma, such as child sexual abuse, trafficking for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation, racism, and rape. Her practice draws upon trauma-informed, intersectional, and analytic principles and theory, but she is interested in how all fields of study and lived experience can intersect in and around the therapeutic space. Jacinta also delivers training to specialist services and clinicians; leads the Embrace Ethnicity Network within Northpoint Wellbeing; consults with organisations on issues relating to diversity and mental health; and writes academic works relating to the impact of power, privilege, and position on personal and social wellbeing.

Deborah is a Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) registered forensic psychologist. She gained chartered status with the British Psychological Society and full membership with the Division of Forensic Psychology in 2003. She was awarded Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (AFBPS) in 2007.

Deborah currently holds the position of principal forensic psychologist with Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, where she works with both male and female services users in secure and rehabilitation mental health inpatient settings. Over her career she has held positions across a broad range of forensic provisions, working across all security levels within HM Prison Estates and mental health inpatient services. She began working in private practice in 2007 where she has provided evidence-based psychological opinions about risk and treatment interventions to the Criminal and Family Courts (pre-sentence and post-sentence reports, and parenting assessments for family proceedings) and HM Prisons (parole board reports).

With a career spanning over 20 years, Deborah is trained and experienced in a range of specialist assessments for evaluating cognitive abilities, personality, risk and parental protective capacity. Deborah has expertise in the assessment and treatment of violence and of men who sexually offend. Assessments include psychological formulation, which offers an explanation, grounded in theory, into the factors that have contributed to an individual’s behaviour.

Deborah has a special interest in trauma and provides psychotherapy using Eye Movement and Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR). EMDR is recommended by The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) as the first treatment for people with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. This type of therapy can help people with war related experiences, childhood or adulthood sexual and/or physical abuse, natural disaster, assault, surgical trauma, road traffic accidents, and workplace accidents.

Dr Stephen Hoole, (Talking Therapy North), CPsychol., AFBPsS is a highly experienced HCPC registered Clinical Psychologist (Registration Number: PYL31252) with a wealth of knowledge, skills and experience from over 20 years in the healthcare sector in different roles.

He is a Chartered member and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and Professional Member of the Association for Counselling and Therapy Online.

Dr Hoole completed his doctoral training at the University of Leeds in 2014 and has since worked as a Clinical Psychologist in both the NHS, charity and private sectors, gaining a wide experience of clinical and management roles.

Therapeutically, Dr Hoole specialises in working with longstanding anxiety, depression and relationship difficulties, helping clients understand how their past impacts the life they want to live.

He is trained to doctoral level in a variety of therapies; however, draws predominantly on psychodynamic approaches and attachment theory when working with clients. This means helping a person to look at how their early life experiences and relationships shape the ways in which they relate to themselves and others, and how this may be causing their problems.

He also offers a professional clinical supervision service to other HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologists, as well as appropriately qualified Counsellors and Psychotherapists. 

Dr Hoole is approachable, empathic and works collaboratively with clients and supervisees in order to understand their needs and help them work toward their respective goals.