Welcome to Tall Oaks Psychological Therapies. I'm Claire Dougherty, and I'm here to provide tailored, evidence-based support as you navigate life's challenges. Whether you're dealing with trauma, PTSD, Complex PTSD, anxiety, depression, or seeking to build resilience, you've landed exactly where you need to be.
Bringing compassion, expertise, and hope to every therapeutic journey
I am a BABCP Accredited Cognitive Behavioural Therapist and qualified in eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing (EMDR) and Compassion Focussed Therapy (CFT) working with adults from 16 years old and up. I am also an NMC Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) and have extensive experience across mental health settings with 15 years’ experience within the NHS. This enables me to offer a flexible, evidence-based approach tailored to each individual's needs.
Trauma‑Focused CBT (TF‑CBT) is a specialised form of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy designed to help people process and recover from traumatic experiences. It combines evidence‑based CBT techniques with a sensitive, paced approach that supports you in making sense of what happened, reducing distressing symptoms, and rebuilding a sense of safety and control.
This approach helps you understand how trauma affects your thoughts, emotions, and body, and offers practical tools to manage flashbacks, Nightmares, avoidance, and overwhelming feelings. TF‑CBT is collaborative and empowering, helping you move toward healing at a pace that feels right for you.
I am passionate about and have a specialist interest in supporting people with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), complex PTSD and survivors of childhood trauma, sexual abuse and assault and attachment trauma. I also offer services for a wide range of mental health challenges, depression, anxiety, overthinking, excessive worry, low self-esteem, panic, health anxiety, social anxiety, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
My mission is to provide compassionate, evidence-based therapy that empowers people to move forward with a renewed sense of hope. I believe in creating a safe, supportive space where individuals can build resilience, develop self-compassion, and reconnect with a sense of safeness and self-worth.
I am also an experienced clinical supervisor offering a compassionate space to help therapists grow in their own practice.
Supporting you through a wide range of mental health challenges, with specialist expertise in trauma
Evidence-based therapies tailored to your unique needs
CBT is a highly effective, evidence-based approach that helps you understand and transform unhelpful patterns of thinking and behaviour. By working together, we'll identify beliefs that are holding you back and develop healthier patterns to improve your wellbeing.
Trauma-Focused CBT is a specialised form of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy designed to help you process and recover from traumatic experiences. It combines evidence-based CBT techniques with a sensitive, paced approach that helps you understand how trauma affects your thoughts, emotions, and body, while offering practical tools to manage flashbacks, nightmares, avoidance, and overwhelming feelings
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing is a powerful technique that transforms unhelpful memories and emotions. EMDR helps the brain process traumatic memories differently, reducing their intensity and impact on your daily life.
Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) is an integrative approach that can be used as a standalone therapy or to complement both CBT and EMDR. At its heart, CFT supports you in developing a kinder, more compassionate relationship with yourself. It is particularly helpful for people who struggle with shame, self‑criticism, or a harsh inner voice, offering practical ways to soften these patterns and build emotional safety from within.
Professional support for CBT and CFT practitioners to enhance their clinical practice. I provide compassionate, reflective supervision that integrates trauma-informed principles.
Psychological therapies really can be life changing. If you're looking for support and feel your mental health difficulties are getting in the way of you living the life you want, please do get in touch.
Providing CBT, EMDR & CFT in Rugeley, Staffordshire and across the UK via online therapy
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