Dr Catherine Bamford

 Professional experience

• More than 10 years of experience
• Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Neuropsychologist, Bamford Psychology Service (2010 to present)
• Clinical Psychologist and Neuropsychologst, Hertfordshire Neurological Service (2008 to 2015)
• Supervisor to trainee clinical psychologists on placement, NHS Mental Health Services
• Assistant Psychologist, Vale of Aylesbury NHS Trust Community Neuro Rehab Team (2002 to 2004)
• Lead Research Psychologist for the EPICURE study investigating cognitive and physical development of children born extremely premature, University of Hertfordshire (2001 to 2002)

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 Sub-specialties

• ADHD
• Adjustment disorders
• Adoption
• Adults
• Anger management
• Asperger's syndrome
• Behavioural issues
• Bereavement
• Brain injury
• Chronic illness
• Chronic pain
• Eating disorders
• Emotional disturbance
• Family conflict and family therapy
• Infidelity
• Internet addiction
• Learning disabilities
• Life coaching
• Life transitions
• Mindfulness
• Musculoskeletal conditions
• Neurological conditions
• Obsessive-compulsive (OCD)
• Parenting
• Pregnancy, prenatal, postpartum
• Relationship issues and breakdowns
• School issues
• Self-harming
• Sleep or insomnia
• Solution focused brief therapy
• Stress
• Trauma
• Traumatic brain Injury
• Women's Issues
• Work related stress
• attachment issues
• mood disorders
• stress disorder
• insomnia
• irritable bowel syndrome
• inflammatory bowel disease
• inflammatory bowel disease
• inflammatory bowel disease
• grief
• bullying
• panic attacks

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 Education

• 2:1 Masters honours degree in psychology, University of Aberdeen (1999)
• Trainee clinical psychologist, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Mental Health Trust (2004 to 2008)
• ​Doctorate in clinical psychology, University of Hertfordshire (2008)
• Expert Witness training Level 2, British Psychological Society (2013)
• Expert Witness training, The Psychology Service, Bedfordshire (2014)
• Premier and Premex CertMR - Part 1, Bond Solon, London (2014)
• Mindfulness training, British Psychological Society (2015)
• Trauma based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, British Psychological Society (2015)
• ​Head First Conference, Westminster, London (2016 & 2017)
• ​Neuropsychology Professional Development Programme Workshop, Oxford University (2017)
• British Psychological Society Approved training in Third Wave Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (2018)
• Autism in girls and women, Tony Attwood, SDS Training course, BPS Approved (2020)
• Adapting CBT for Depression to Work with individuals with Personality Disorder, Training course, Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre (2020)

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 Publications and conferences

• Hennessy EM, Bracewell MA, Wood N, Wolke D, Costeloe K, Gibson A, Marlow N; EPICure Study Group. Respiratory health in pre-school and school age children following extremely preterm birth. Arch Dis Child . (Dec 2008)
• Samara M, Marlow N, Wolke D; EPICure Study Group. Pervasive behavior problems at 6 years of age in a total-population sample of children born at </=25 weeks of gestation. Pediatrics . (Sep 2008)

 Professional membership

• Member, British Psychological Society
• Health and Care Professions Council