NINA PRESTON
Qualifications / Title: Consultant Forensic Psychologist
Key Training / Accreditations: HCPC, BPS BSc, MSc, C.Psychol, AFBPsS, CSci
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NINA PRESTON
Nina has been a qualified Psychologist for over ten years. She is trained in a range of therapeutic modalities affording her the privilege of working with children and adolescents, adults, couples and families. Nina is a Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) trained practitioner to advanced practitioner level. She is also trained in Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR), a therapeutic approach that is helpful in processing significant past life experiences that continue to influence the present in both mind and body.
Nina’s training in in Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) supports her work with children, young people, and their caregivers. As a Psychologist, Nina’s aim is always to use her expertise in evidence-based practice to provide a bespoke, client-centred approach to her work. Ultimately, Nina is passionate about holistic approaches to compassionate living and ensuring there is equity in compassion being available to all.
Nina always knew she wanted to be a Psychologist, working particularly within forensics services, intrigued by the degree to which people become marginalised and the way society contributes to this process. Nina’s work has involved working within HM Prison Service, the NHS and educational and residential provisions. Most recently Nina has worked as a Consultant Forensic Psychologist in the NHS across community adult and children’s mental health services. Nina’s experience has taught her that environmental safety, not created by structural or materialistic assets, but by quality relationships, fosters a desire in the most disconnected of beings, to connect to others in a meaningful way; a way that allows that individual to turn towards theirs, and other’s distress, and take appropriate compassionate action to do something about it.
In addition to the provision of therapy, Nina’s work has equipped her with the knowledge, experience and training required to engage, assess and help young people and adults for whom trauma, neurodevelopmental needs, mental health conditions and environmental and relational instability, are actively impacting their lives.
From Nina’s experience working within a range of public sector organisations, Nina understands only too well, the impact our societal systems can have on individuals and their families. Ultimately, Nina is an advocate for compassionate care and trauma informed approaches, which is why these factors sit at the core of her clinical practice, and personal morals, values and ethics.
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