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Mind Friend is excited to share a new podcast collaboration featuring three esteemed Senior Clinical Psychologists—Dr Victoria Hallett, Dr Zoë Kindynis, and Dr Stuart Brownings—founders of a specialist OCD clinic. This conversation offers an in-depth look at the challenges of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and the evidence-based approaches that empower individuals and families to reclaim their lives. As leading voices in OCD treatment, each clinician shares their personal philosophy, therapeutic methods, and commitment to compassionate, structured care. 🔹 Dr Victoria Hallett is a Senior Clinical Psychologist and a co-founder of The Specialist OCD Clinic. With over a decade of experience in the field, her clinical expertise lies in supporting children, young people and families who are navigating the complexities of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), neurodivergence (particularly autism spectrum conditions) and anxiety. 🔹 Dr Zoë Kindynis is a Senior Clinical Psychologist dedicated to empowering service users through co-produced, individualised treatment. Her therapeutic style is empathetic, engaging, and collaborative, with a passion for amplifying client voices and shaping services based on lived experience. 🔹 Dr Stuart Brownings offers years of experience delivering Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) across the lifespan. His approach prioritises client autonomy, transparency, and progress through structured, goal-oriented work. Dr Brownings highlights the power of hope, honesty, and consistency in overcoming OCD. 🎙️ Whether you’re a mental health professional, a person seeking support, or someone with an interest in psychological wellbeing, this conversation provides expert insight into clinical care, compassion, and recovery. #MindFriend #OCDTreatment #SeniorClinicalPsychologist #MentalHealthUK #CBT #CAMHS #OCDRecovery #AutismAndAnxiety #ERPtherapy #ChildAdolescentMentalHealth #OCDSupport #Neurodiversity #PsychologistUK #TherapistVoices #MentalHealthPodcast #ExposureResponsePrevention #ClinicalPsychology #MentalHealthAwareness #CoProducedCare #PsychologicalSupport by @mindfriendtalk
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Therapists go to therapy too, and they take breaks from it. Davey Murphy Psychotherapist Specialisation: Trauma, Men's Issues, Individual Therapy Regulatory Body: BACP Accredited Based in: Portsmouth and Southampton, England Anthony Davis Integrative Psychotherapist and Clinical Supervisor Specialisation: Men's Issues, Anxiety, Depression, Trauma Regulatory Body: MBACP (Accred) Based in: Central London, England 🤍 Having done work on yourself does not mean things stop upsetting you. When something lands badly, the useful response is to accept that it has, rather than deciding you should be past it by now. Therapists included. One speaker is open about it. Three years of mandatory therapy during the degree, because that is part of the training. And then a break. Pausing therapy is completely normal, particularly after a long stretch of required sessions, or during a period when life is busy in a specific way, such as setting up a private practice. Going back is equally normal. The signal is usually feeling dysregulated, or a life event arriving that makes extra support worth having. None of it has to be continuous. Sessions can stop. They can be spaced out. They can run monthly rather than weekly. The schedule follows the need, not the other way round. If the people trained to do this treat therapy as something they step in and out of, that is a reasonable model for everyone else. Listen to the full episode on Spotify at MindFriend Talk. 🎧 Follow for more. ✨MindFriend's check is administrative and educational only and is not personal advice, an endorsement, recommendation, or guarantee of quality or outcomes, and does not confirm that this clinician is suitable for you. Always seek a qualified professional for your own situation. #mindfriend #mindfriendtalk #therapy #therapistsintherapy #mensmentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness by @mindfriendtalk
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ARFID and autism: why it is not the same as picky eating. Dr. Elina (Linnie) Telford Chartered Clinical Psychologist | Founder, The Bluebell Clinic Specialisation: Neurodevelopmental Assessment (ASC/ADHD), Eating Disorders, CAMHS Regulatory Body: HCPC | BPS Based in: Hampshire, England Dr. Rebecca Ker Counselling Psychologist (DPsych) Specialisation: Neurodevelopmental Assessment (ASC/ADHD), Neuro-Affirmative Practice Regulatory Body: HCPC | BPS Based in: Farnham, Surrey, England 🤍 ARFID is Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder. A severely limited range of safe foods, restricted enough to meet a clinical threshold. It is highly relevant to autistic people. It is also not the same thing as picky eating, which affects roughly 70 per cent of autistic individuals. That distinction matters, because one is common and manageable and the other is a diagnosis needing treatment. What makes it serious is what follows. Inadequate eating and malnutrition affect mental health directly, and in autistic people they can intensify existing traits. Cognitive rigidity gets more rigid. Fear avoidance widens. Anxiety climbs. The eating problem and the distress feed each other. Accurate diagnosis is the part that changes outcomes, because the drivers differ. ARFID is often sensory-based fear and overwhelm rather than the motivations behind other eating disorders. Same visible behaviour, different cause, different treatment. Getting that wrong means treating the wrong thing. Listen to the full episode on Spotify at MindFriend Talk. 🎧 Follow for more. ✨MindFriend's check is administrative and educational only and is not personal advice, an endorsement, recommendation, or guarantee of quality or outcomes, and does not confirm that this clinician is suitable for you. Always seek a qualified professional for your own situation. #mindfriend #mindfriendtalk #arfid #autism #eatingdisorders #neurodivergent by @mindfriendtalk
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Cognitive defusion: you are not your thoughts, you are the thinker. Matthew Johnston Psychotherapist Specialisation: Anxiety, Depression, Stress Regulatory Body: MBACP Based in: Nottingham, England Rosanna Kramer CBT Therapist Specialisation: Anxiety, OCD, Complex Mental Health Regulatory Body: BABCP Based in: London, England Joshua Munn Psychotherapist Specialisation: OCD, Anxiety, ADHD Regulatory Body: BABCP Based in: Romford, East London 🧠Most people never think about their own thinking. When you identify completely with your thoughts, they run the place. Move into the position of the thinker instead, the one observing, and you can question them. That is where a negative pattern becomes interruptible rather than inevitable. The trouble starts when what happens in your head fuses with what is actually happening. Internalise enough negative self-talk, worthless, not good enough, and you start projecting it outward. You decide that is what everyone else thinks of you too. CBT anxiety experiments show the gap plainly. One speaker was convinced they were blushing intensely on camera and rated the redness off the scale. On playback there was nothing visible at all. Which is the part worth keeping. The mind is very good at convincing you a belief is completely true when it is nowhere near reality. Listen to the full episode on Spotify at MindFriend Talk. 🎧 Follow for more. ✨MindFriend's check is administrative and educational only and is not personal advice, an endorsement, recommendation, or guarantee of quality or outcomes, and does not confirm that this clinician is suitable for you. Always seek a qualified professional for your own situation. #mindfriend #mindfriendtalk #cbt #negativeselftalk #anxiety #cognitivedefusion by @mindfriendtalk
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Neurodiversity at work: masking can cost half your energy. Dr. Steph Keay Chartered Clinical Psychologist Specialisation: Adult and Older Adult Mental Health, Workplace Practice Regulatory Body: HCPC | BPS (Chartered) Based in: Northampton, England Dr. Nicola Griffiths Clinical Psychologist (ClinPsyD) | Serendipity Psychology Specialisation: Complex Trauma and PTSD, Work Stress, Neuropsychology Regulatory Body: HCPC Based in: Northampton and Kettering, England 🧠 Some employees spend as much as half their energy masking. Hiding differences, fitting in, working in ways that do not suit their brain. That is half the available capacity, gone before the work starts. Workplaces that notice and build around it get the other half back. Capability surfaces, burnout stops arriving on schedule, and people do better work. It starts with teams saying what they are good at and what they find hard, without it costing them anything. One speaker has dyslexia. Handing work to a colleague for a spelling check, without worrying what they will think, saves time and removes a layer of anxiety. That is psychological safety doing something concrete. These conversations serve everyone, diagnosis or not. Knowing whether a teammate chips away slowly or needs a tight deadline to start lets you build diaries that work rather than diaries that look tidy. Without them, work falls apart quietly. Resentment on one side, worry about performance on the other, and nobody says anything. Listen to the full episode on Spotify at MindFriend Talk. 🎧 Follow for more. ✨MindFriend's check is administrative and educational only and is not personal advice, an endorsement, recommendation, or guarantee of quality or outcomes, and does not confirm that this clinician is suitable for you. Always seek a qualified professional for your own situation. #mindfriend #mindfriendtalk #neurodiversityatwork #masking #psychologicalsafety #workplacementalhealth by @mindfriendtalk
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OCD recovery does not mean the intrusive thoughts stop. Laura Mole Counsellor | OCD and Anxiety Specialist Specialisation: OCD, Intrusive Thoughts, Anxiety, ERP Regulatory Body: BACP Based in: Barnet, London, and online Jess Hayes CBT Therapist | OCD and Perinatal Specialist Specialisation: OCD, Perinatal Mental Health, CBT, ERP, ICBT, EMDR Regulatory Body: BABCP Based in: Warrington, England, and online 🤍 Recovery from OCD does not mean never feeling anxious again. It does not mean intrusive thoughts vanish. That expectation is one reason people decide they are failing at recovery when they are not. What recovery means is being able to live the life you want and be happy in it. That holds for any presentation of OCD, including the subtypes people find hardest to say out loud, such as POCD and harm OCD. The mechanism is tolerance. You build a greater capacity to sit with distress, and with uncertainty, and you carry on with your life while both are present. It helps to know the anxiety itself is not unusual. Everyone feels anxious at some point. It triggers the same parts of the brain in everyone, the amygdala releasing adrenaline and cortisol. The physical sensation is the same for a person with OCD as for anyone else. What changes in recovery is not whether intrusive thoughts appear. It is their volume and their frequency. They get quieter. They arrive less often. And they stop deciding what you do. Listen to the full episode on Spotify at MindFriend Talk. 🎧 Follow for more. ✨MindFriend's check is administrative and educational only and is not personal advice, an endorsement, recommendation, or guarantee of quality or outcomes, and does not confirm that this clinician is suitable for you. Always seek a qualified professional for your own situation. #mindfriend #mindfriendtalk #ocd #ocdrecovery #intrusivethoughts #erp by @mindfriendtalk
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2 months ago
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Forced apologies: why making your child say sorry does not work. Dr. Kirstie Fleetwood Meade Chartered Counselling Psychologist and Executive Coach Specialisation: Women's Wellbeing, Motherhood Regulatory Body: HCPC | BPS Based in: Bristol, England Amy Bojanowski-Bubb Integrative Psychotherapist and Counsellor Specialisation: Anxiety, Depression, Women's Mental Health Regulatory Body: MBACP Based in: Richmond, London 🤍Making a small child apologise for being unkind teaches them very little. What it produces is empty words, said to end the situation. The alternative is slower and works better. Apologise properly yourself, in front of them, when you get something wrong. Children learn the shape of a real apology by watching one, and get there in their own time. The difficulty is rarely the child. It is the other parents. On a playground, with someone watching, the pressure to produce an apology on demand is social, not developmental. You can check the other child is fine, handle it calmly, and still feel a performance is owed. Which opens onto something larger. Female friendships, and interactions between mothers in particular, can carry a competitive edge where support should be. Comparison at the school gates is automatic. Nobody decides to do it. It runs before you notice it running. The question worth sitting with is where it came from. A reaction to your situation, or something inherited, handed down through generations of women measured against each other too. Listen to the full episode on Spotify at MindFriend Talk. 🎧 Follow for more. ✨MindFriend's check is administrative and educational only and is not personal advice, an endorsement, recommendation, or guarantee of quality or outcomes, and does not confirm that this clinician is suitable for you. Always seek a qualified professional for your own situation. #mindfriend #mindfriendtalk #gentleparenting #motherhood #comparison #maternalmentalhealth by @mindfriendtalk
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2 months ago
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The Tree of Life: a creative way to work out what you actually value. Dr. Ravi Gill Chartered Health Psychologist Specialisation: Trauma, Anxiety, Workplace Wellbeing Regulatory Body: HCPC | BPS (Chartered) Based in: Buckinghamshire, England Dr. Manpreet Dhuffar-Pottiwal Chartered Psychologist | Founder, MultiGenZen Specialisation: Intergenerational Trauma, Behavioural Addictions, CBT Regulatory Body: BPS (Chartered) | BABCP Based in: London, England 🧠Values is a word that gets used until it means very little. Living by them is a different matter, and there are more creative ways in than sitting down with a list. One of them is the Tree of Life. It is a methodology rooted in narrative therapy, and it uses a drawn tree as a way into your own identity. Roots for where you come from. Ground for daily life now. Trunk for your skills and values. Branches for hopes. Leaves for the people who matter. Fruit for what you have been given. What makes it work is partly what it does not do. It is non-shaming. It does not retraumatise. Nothing about it requires you to recount the worst thing that ever happened in order to arrive somewhere useful. And it is properly creative, which matters more than it sounds. A great many adults have forgotten how to play. Thinking in images and metaphor rather than sentences gets past the part of the mind that already has a rehearsed answer ready for every direct question. Sometimes the way to reach something true is sideways. Listen to the full episode on Spotify at MindFriend Talk. 🎧 Follow for more. ✨MindFriend's check is administrative and educational only and is not personal advice, an endorsement, recommendation, or guarantee of quality or outcomes, and does not confirm that this clinician is suitable for you. Always seek a qualified professional for your own situation. #mindfriend #mindfriendtalk #treeoflife #narrativetherapy #values #creativetherapy by @mindfriendtalk
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2 months ago
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Comparison is the thief of joy: where the habit actually starts. Davey Murphy Psychotherapist Specialisation: Trauma, Men's Issues, Individual Therapy Regulatory Body: BACP Accredited Based in: Portsmouth and Southampton, England Anthony Davis Integrative Psychotherapist and Clinical Supervisor Specialisation: Men's Issues, Anxiety, Depression, Trauma Regulatory Body: MBACP (Accred) Based in: Central London, England 🤍 Comparison is the thief of joy. Worn out as a phrase, still accurate. If you are permanently measuring yourself against someone else, there is no arrangement of facts in which you are enough. The bar moves as fast as you do. The alternative is not to stop noticing other people. It is to define what progress looks like for you. Once success is something you have set, you can tell when you have reached it, and give yourself credit for it. For male clients it turns up in the same places. Colleagues getting promoted. Friends in stable relationships. Whoever earns more. Each produces the same conclusion. You are lesser than. The habit usually starts long before any of that. Many people were compared constantly as children. To classmates, siblings, cousins. Especially people with ADHD or autism, told they were not focusing, not organised, not behaving normally, and often bullied for it. Years of that does not stay in childhood. It transfers into adult work and relationships. Which is where the real work sits. Not managing comparison today, but going back to where the need was installed. Listen to the full episode on Spotify at MindFriend Talk. 🎧 Follow for more. ✨MindFriend's check is administrative and educational only and is not personal advice, an endorsement, recommendation, or guarantee of quality or outcomes, and does not confirm that this clinician is suitable for you. Always seek a qualified professional for your own situation. #mindfriend #mindfriendtalk #comparison #mensmentalhealth #selfesteem by @mindfriendtalk
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2 months ago
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Men and therapy: why fear of judgement keeps men out of the room. Nicole Cutting Psychotherapist Specialisation: CBT, Anxiety, Trauma, Self-Esteem Regulatory Body: BABCP Based in: Northallerton and Doncaster, England Lex Hristova CBT Psychotherapist and Senior Lecturer in Psychology Specialisation: Anxiety, Low Mood, Self-Esteem, CBT Regulatory Body: BABCP Accredited Based in: [to confirm] 🤍 There is a myth that mental health difficulties do not hit men as hard. The diagnosis data does show women diagnosed more often with anxiety and depression. That is not the same as men being less affected. It is a measure of who reaches services and gets recorded. One statistic cuts through the ambiguity. Men die by suicide at around three times the rate of women. The barrier that comes up most often is fear of judgement, and it operates at two levels. What a man expects the people around him to think. And what the culture has already made clear about what men are supposed to be. Stoic. Unbothered. Not susceptible to any of this. Those messages arrive in childhood, which is why they are so hard to shift later. What gets internalised is a simple equation. Sadness is weakness. Talking about how you feel is weakness. Sitting in a therapist's chair is weakness. None of it is true. The numbers are what it costs. Listen to the full episode on Spotify at MindFriend Talk. 🎧 Follow for more. ✨MindFriend's check is administrative and educational only and is not personal advice, an endorsement, recommendation, or guarantee of quality or outcomes, and does not confirm that this clinician is suitable for you. Always seek a qualified professional for your own situation. #mindfriend #mindfriendtalk #mensmentalhealth #suicideprevention #therapyformen #mentalhealthstigma by @mindfriendtalk
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2 months ago
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Self-compassion and common humanity: the antidote to comparison. Joshua Munn Psychotherapist Specialisation: OCD, Anxiety, ADHD Regulatory Body: BABCP Based in: Romford, East London 🤍Self-compassion gets mistaken for letting yourself off. It is closer to the opposite. Kristin Neff's work puts common humanity at the centre of it. The thing you are ashamed of is not evidence that you are uniquely broken. It is evidence that you are a person. Suffering is the shared condition, not your personal failing. Comparison is what breaks that. You measure your inside against everyone else's outside and lose every time, because the comparison was never fair to begin with. One ACT exercise cuts through it. Picture your eightieth birthday. Who is in the room, and what do you want them to say about how you lived? Whatever surfaces is your values, stated plainly. Most people find the answer has very little to do with what they have spent the year worrying about. That is the useful part. Not feeling better. Knowing what actually matters. Listen to the full episode on Spotify at MindFriend Talk. 🎧 Follow for more. ✨MindFriend's check is administrative and educational only and is not personal advice, an endorsement, recommendation, or guarantee of quality or outcomes, and does not confirm that this clinician is suitable for you. Always seek a qualified professional for your own situation. #mindfriend #mindfriendtalk #selfcompassion #acceptanceandcommitmenttherapy #mentalhealthawareness by @mindfriendtalk
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2 months ago
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Hyperemesis gravidarum: what the smell triggers are actually like. Marie Vaile Integrative Counsellor Specialisation: Perinatal Mental Health, Birth Trauma, Baby and Infant Loss, Hyperemesis Gravidarum Regulatory Body: BACP | NCPS Accredited Based in: Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales Sarah Edge BACP Accredited Psychotherapist Specialisation: Pre and Postnatal Mental Health, Maternal Wellbeing, Perinatal Trauma Regulatory Body: BACP Based in: Sale, South Manchester, England 🤍 Hyperemesis gravidarum is not morning sickness with the volume turned up. The description here: permanent severe travel sickness, running alongside a vomiting bug. Smell is the part people underestimate. One speaker could smell the fajita chicken sandwich her husband was eating from the other side of the living room. That level of sensitivity turns leaving the house into a calculation. Everything smells, and almost all of it smells bad. A walk on the beach ended with her being sick on the sand, because a burger van was upwind. Cooking meat at home was just as reliable a trigger. A possible link with travel sickness came up too, and the effects can outlast the pregnancy. One of them can no longer travel in the back of a car or on a bus without being sick. For the other it accumulates. Short trips are manageable. Long ones are not. None of this is fussiness, and none of it is imagined. HG has physical mechanisms, and it can leave marks that do not disappear when the pregnancy ends. Listen to the full episode on Spotify at MindFriend Talk. 🎧 Follow for more. ✨MindFriend's check is administrative and educational only and is not personal advice, an endorsement, recommendation, or guarantee of quality or outcomes, and does not confirm that this clinician is suitable for you. Always seek a qualified professional for your own situation. #mindfriend #mindfriendtalk #hyperemesisgravidarum #pregnancysickness #maternalmentalhealth by @mindfriendtalk
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