Hello, I’m Jenny.
I’m a BABCP-accredited CBT psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer, and I’ve been working in mental health since 1996, across NHS services, universities, professional training and my own private practice.
Most of my working week is now spent in senior leadership. I’m Director of Adult Psychological Training Programmes at the Psychological Therapies Training Centre within Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. My role covers programme leadership, curriculum development and quality assurance. It also means making sure the training clinicians receive is clinically useful and worth their time. I also teach CBT at the University of Salford.
I have deliberately continued to see clients and provide supervision throughout. It is hard to lead training well if you have stopped doing the thing you are training people to do.
Here is what I have come to believe after thirty years in the field: most people do not struggle with CBT because it is difficult. They struggle because of the way it is explained. The models themselves are elegant, but the delivery can make them feel impenetrable.
I have been on both sides of that room: as the person trying to make sense of an explanation and as the person giving it. I have also watched capable, committed people nod along at something they had not quite followed.
When an explanation does not land, I do not assume the problem lies with the person listening. I look again at the explanation. Getting that right is my responsibility, but finding the version that works for you is something we do together.
That is how CBT works: nobody hands you the answer. You build it together.
Everything here grows out of that belief. Alongside my clinical and teaching work, I research and write about CBT training, mindfulness, inclusion, and the experiences of dyslexic practitioners and students, including my own.
Through my private practice, I offer evidence-based CBT and professional supervision, online and face to face in Manchester.
If you are looking for therapy, supervision or simply a clearer explanation of something, you are in the right place.
