Dr Eleanor Gunn, Clinical Psychologist

Dr Eleanor Gunn

Clinical Psychologist BSc, MSc, DClinPsy

North Cambs / remote sessions

Monday, Tuesday, Friday daytimes

Dr Eleanor Gunn qualified as a clinical psychologist in 2020, and before qualification had 12 years of experience in mental health assessment and treatment in the NHS.

Eleanor works therapeutically with adults across the lifespan. Eleanor has a special interest in birth trauma and supporting people as they transition into motherhood/parenthood.

Eleanor values working integratively to meet an individual's needs. She often draws on psychodynamic therapies to inform her approach, and she is also trained in EMDR to help process painful experiences and trauma.

Eleanor also offers assessments in our team around mental health, ADHD and Autism (children and adults), enjoying supporting people to further understand themselves and their needs.

“Both of the clinical psychologists involved in the assessment were friendly, reassuring and made us all feel at ease with the process. Thank you!”

“I just wanted to say a big thank you to Eleanor. Over the past year she’s been amazing. She worked so hard to make sure I felt safe in our sessions, she was totally scrupulous when it came to picking up on things that might be more important than I realised, and she helped me talk about and connect with some huge things in a way I would have found very difficult if she wasn’t there metaphorically holding my hand. After all the medical negligence, I really needed that help more than any other time in my life and I’m so grateful I found your clinic and Eleanor.”

“I really benefitted from my sessions with Eleanor and have learnt a lot about myself and how to manage situations better and be open to my own feelings more. I am looking forward to working with Eleanor again…After decades of counselling I am so glad I invested in seeing a psychologist who has made a huge difference to helping me understand how my brain works and to become more in touch with myself”

Memberships:

Health Care & Professions Council

Eleanor's range of experience and skills includes:

Assessment and therapeutic intervention for adolescents and adults with a range of mental health difficulties including depression and anxiety, interpersonal difficulties, trauma (including PTSD), emotional regulation, and complex mental health difficulties.
Specialist knowledge of health psychology for supporting people with chronic health conditions, somatic conditions and behaviour change.
Cosmetic surgery, mental health, PTSD and ADHD assessments.

NHS experience:

Jan 2021 - present: Perinatal Mental Health team with Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust in Jan 2021.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021: Community Mental Health Team, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.
Oct 2019 – present: Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner – preferred provider/independent contractor, VitaHealth Group.
Sept 2014 – Dec 2019: Trainee Clinical Psychologist, Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Partnership Trust.

Relevant training/qualifications:

2022: DIVA ADHD assessment training, UKAAN
Sep 2021: The Challenge of Racism in Therapeutic Practice, June 2020, 2 days, provided by Black, African, Asian Therapy Network (BAATN).
Sep 2020: DBT Essential Skills, British Isles.
Jul 2020: Mentalisation Based Basic Training, Anna Freud Centre.
Jan-Sep 2020: EMDR Training, Rickman EMDR Training part 1-3.
Oct 2019: The development of Psychoanalytic Theory, Tavistock and Portman, 1 year.
2018: Introduction to Experiential Dynamic Therapy, Thrive PPP Ltd.
2017: Maximising therapeutic effectiveness: transforming work with complex clients, IEDTA.

2016: Overcoming treatment resistant depression: the power of emotion, International immersive conference, IEDTA.
2014: MSc Health Psychology, Distinction, University of Nottingham.
2010: PGcert Psychological Therapies, Anglia Ruskin University.
Pregnancy Interrupted - 1) empirical paper focussing on the lived experiences of women with primary tokophobia. 2) The systematic review explores the psychosocial processes in women’s experiences of miscarriage (currently being written for publication).

Other professional roles:

Teaching to MSc students.
Training in the corporate wellbeing sector.

Dr Eleanor Gunn

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