L A Tomlinson Psychology Services
Current available services include:
Psychological Therapy, Psychological Assessments, and Report Writing.
Therapeutic approaches used include: Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing(EMDR) Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) informed approach, Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive-Behavioural Integrated Treatment (C-BIT) for addictions.
Current availability:
Various weekday times from Monday to Thursday which includes both day time and evenings.
Weekend availability on a Saturday morning and early afternoon.
Face to Face appointments are available for clients based in the North East of England, based at either Durham or Teesside.
Free No Obligation 20 Minutes Zoom Call for New Clients
About Dr Lisa Tomlinson
Meet Dr Lisa Tomlinson
Dr Lisa Tomlinson is based at Teesside, in the North East of England and can provide people local to her with face-to-face therapy. However, the majority of her therapy is provided via remote video conferencing platforms, such as Zoom, What's App, Skype or Microsoft Teams, which provides flexibility for clients.
Dr Tomlinson is a dedicated Clinical Psychologist with a passion for helping individuals recover from their mental health difficulties, getting to the root of the problem so that changes are long lasting. Her goal is to create a safe and supportive environment where you can explore your thoughts and feelings.
Dr Tomlinson's extensive experience in the NHS has equipped her with the expertise to provide compassionate and evidence-based therapy tailored to your unique needs. Dr Tomlinson gained a BSc in Applied Psychology, and MSc in Developmental Psychopathology from Durham University. She completed her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology training at the University of Liverpool.
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Dr Tomlinson offers individual therapy services to address a wide range of emotional and psychological concerns, including all types of anxiety or depression.
Dr Tomlinson has specialist skills and knowledge for helping clients with childhood trauma, sexual trauma, car accidents, relational difficulties, obsessive compulsive disorder, substance misuse, gambling addiction, self-harm, eating disorders, emotional eating & perfectionism.
Her approach is person-centred, ensuring that each session is focused on your specific needs and goals.
Through a combination of therapeutic techniques, Dr Tomlinson will guide you towards a path of healing and self-discovery.
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Dr Tomlinson offers psychological assessments and reports for the purpose of medical, tribunals, court or other reasons.
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Dr Tomlinson has created some free resources for her clients to use during therapy.
Lisa was incredibly easy to talk to, with a warm and friendly presence that put me at ease straight away and made me feel that I could talk to her about anything. She was always really caring and compassionate in listening to and responding to all my difficulties.
At the start of therapy, we created diagrams to lay out the core beliefs and thinking/behavioural patterns contributing to my difficulties. This was very helpful as it enabled me to understand and pinpoint what needed to be addressed.
In helping me address these beliefs and patterns, Lisa provided me with many tools and strategies. These were helpful during the therapy and will be of use in the future. As my therapy progressed, I felt an increasing sense of confidence in my own ability to cope with my problems. This increasing confidence was facilitated by using the tools/strategies in my life and seeing my progress, as well as by Lisa being completely open to and encouraging me to explore my own ideas about my difficulties, often prompting me to think of solutions myself as well as providing her own advice. As I had long been a person that turned for others for support, this increasing self-confidence in dealing with life was really nice to experience.
I also found it very helpful that Lisa was able to provide various forms of therapy, as this meant we were easily able to try different approaches for particular issues to find out what was best.
After much progress, I decided that I was ready to stop therapy, but the door was left open to return for more help should it ever be needed.
The first thing Lisa did was to create a safe and non judgemental space where I felt able to talk about my childhood trauma which I had kept a secret for 50 years. This was the first big step on my healing journey. She then helped me through EMDR and CAT treatments, to look
at what had happened to me, helped me understand how it had impacted on me and how it led to unhealthy coping strategies. With Lisa help I was able to face and release the fear I had been carrying for decades, map out new healthy coping strategies that reinforced positive and self compassionate behavior. At times the treatment was very intense and Lisa support was there all the way.
I can't overstate how fundamental and positive the change had been. I feel my brain has been re wired, I am able to talk about my feelings
and noticeably I have more empathy for others. At times I have found the treatments very difficult emotionally but when I look back I can
see it has been a growing experience. I feel my past has been dealt with and I can move on.
My sessions with Lisa were different to those I have had before with other therapists when facing life’s challenges and have had a profound impact on how I now understand myself.
She was quickly able to identify my behaviour patterns and explored these in a visual map which I found very powerful and use constantly. I strongly endorse her insightful approach.