Ceri Parry, BACP

Ceri Parry is a BACP-registered psychotherapist with five years' clinical experience and a background as a qualified nurse. She combines mental health practice and healthcare experience to support people dealing with stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, trauma, relationship and parenting concerns, and anger-related difficulties.

She uses straightforward methods in sessions so people can manage everyday problems. Ceri draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to spot unhelpful thinking, and on person-centred and attachment-based ways of working to look at how relationships affect feelings. Sessions also use elements of dialectical behaviour therapy and emotionally-focused work when emotion regulation or relationship patterns are central.

Her nursing background includes more than 15 years working across acute hospitals, community and primary care, and adult mental health services. That experience informs practical approaches to chronic illness, fatigue and the emotional impact of long-term conditions. She has also facilitated group work in addiction services and run clinics in GP surgeries and hospitals.

Training and research from an MSc and a first-class BSc (Hons) have shaped Ceri's interest in developmental attachment, personality differences and cognitive factors such as attention. This research informs how she helps people with impulse control, compulsive behaviours and patterns that fuel anger and resentment.

People who choose to work with Ceri can expect a pragmatic, conversational style that focuses on practical skills, goal-setting and motivational work. If someone is unsure which approach fits best, she will help them identify priorities and try approaches that suit their goals and day-to-day life.

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