Rosemary Gomes
Rosemary is a compassionate and insightful Clinical Psychologist possessing a broad range of clinical experience with people with mental health conditions. She has gained this from over 10 years of working in NHS settings.
Through working in multiple childrens‘ services, Rosemary is specialised in providing interventions for children with disabilities and their families, including working with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Additionally, she has expertise and confidence in treating adult mental health difficulties in a wide variety of client groups across the life course and with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
Rosemary is open and aware in her communication, skilled at interacting when information is complex or sensitive. She has built fruitful therapeutic relationships with diverse clients.
Areas of interest:
Neuro-developmental disabilities
Autism
Childhood
Low self-esteem
Anxiety
Trauma
Depression
Parent-child work
Relational difficulties
Long-term health conditions
Complex grief reactions and bereavement
Therapeutic Approaches
Rosemary works integratively across several evidence-based psychological models:
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) – A form of therapy focusing on your thoughts, feelings and behaviours and how these connect together. You may notice how your thinking, mental images or memories can keep certain behaviours going or can impact on your mood. Rosemary may experiment with cognitive or behavioural strategies to try to modify some of these.
Family/Systemic Model – Rosemary will draw on systems theory to broaden the focus of the treatment from you as an individual to the family and social context. Together, you will look at how relationships, patterns of interaction and communications shape your experiences. You will examine how problems have arisen in an interpersonal context and may have been impacted by wider frameworks such as expectations of culture or gender.
Psychodynamic Model – With Rosemary, you will use your therapeutic relationship to understand your symptoms and how they relate to your early history, development and current relationships. Both unconscious communications as well as what is spoken in the therapy room can be used to inform the work.
Narrative Therapy – Rosemary will use curiosity in examining and understanding the stories and narratives that make up your life, what stories are dominant and perhaps disempowering, what stories are less well-developed and could be explored to develop an alternative narrative with richer resources and possibilities.
Motivational Interviewing – A style of counselling which is highly effective in working through the change process in addictions or other dysfunctional or destructive behaviours. Using empathy, reflective listening and collaboration, you both will nonjudgementally explore your values, beliefs and the ambivalence that may be preventing you from making positive changes.
Fees:
50 minute individual therapy: £110
60 minute couples therapy or family therapy: £120
HCPC registration number: PYL32481
Email: Rosemarylindagomes@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: 07949 302 637
