Summary
Naomi is a Specialist Child & Adolescent Occupational Therapist and a Senior Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Practitioner using CBT-informed practice working/consulting via Skype.
Experience
Naomi is an Occupational Therapist/Specialist Mental Health Practitioner with over 12 years’ experience supporting both children & young people and adults using cognitive behavioural therapy. She is currently working as the Service Manager for an inpatient Mother & Baby Unit in Devon which serves women and their babies from Devon, Cornwall & Somerset who are experiencing acute mental illness postnatally. She previously led one of the specialist forensic Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) covering Oxfordshire. She has worked in both inpatient and community services and recognises that the environments in which we operate are fundamental to how we feel and to how we develop.
Naomi uses an holistic and collaborative approach using cognitive behavioural therapy to develop a shared understanding and meaningful therapeutic goals for the person she is working with. She is passionate about working with and supporting both children & young people and adults in their endeavours to understand their difficulties, develop strategies to overcome them and ultimately optimise outcomes and enhance their quality of life.
Interesting facts
Naomi is 6 ft tall and loves wild swimming. She has practised ballet for 9 years and thinks food is life!
Treatments
- Excessive Worry/ GAD – Children Under 12, Teens and Adults
- Social Anxiety – Children Under 12, Teens and Adults
- Panic Attacks/Disorders – Children Under 12, Teens and Adults
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) – Children Under 12, Teens and Adults
- Specific Phobias / Driving Phobias / Agoraphobia – Children Under 12, Teens and Adults
- Low Self-Esteems – Children Under 12, Teens and Adults
- Stress Management – Children Under 12, Teens and Adults
- Unhelpful habits (eg. Self Criticism, perfectionism, procrastination) – Children Under 12, Teens and Adults
- Eating Disorders (Anorexia) – Children Under 12, Teens and Adults
- Body Image Difficulties – Children Under 12, Teens and Adults
- Depression/SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) – Children Under 12, Teens and Adults
- Bereavement – Children Under 12, Teens and Adults
- Perinatal Mental Health/Wellbeing, Adults
