I have worked as a therapist for over 20 years and bring a wealth of warmth, skill and experience to my work. I have specialised in addictions and managed a number of successful inpatient treatment programmes alongside setting up both day care and family programmes.
Gavin Beard
Integrative Therapist – Trauma Specialist

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Gavin Beard
Since 2001, Gavin Beard has worked with Priory as an outpatient therapist seeing individuals, couples and families.
Gavin has experience working with patients experiencing depressive disorders, stress and anxiety as well as patients with co-existing conditions such as bipolar disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and attention deficit disorder (ADD).
Gavin is fully trained in eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) – a therapy used to treat many forms of trauma.
Training
- Advanced Diploma in Integrative Counselling and Therapy – WPF
- Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR)
- Accredited with Federation of Drug and Alcohol Practitioners (FDAP)
- Accredited with National Counsellor Accreditation Certificate (NCAC)
- British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists Registered (BACPReg)
Research interests
- Relapse prevention
- Trauma
- Family intervention
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Specialist Areas
Services Offered
Conditions Treated
- Addiction Treatment
- Adjustment Disorder
- Alcohol Rehabilitation
- Amphetamine Addiction
- Anger Management
- Anxiety
- Attachment Disorder
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- Bereavement
- Binge Eating Disorder (BED)
- Bipolar Disorder
- Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)
- Cannabis Addiction
- Cocaine Addiction
- Conduct Disorder
- Depression
- Drug Induced Psychosis
- Drug Rehabilitation
- Ecstasy / MDMA Addiction
- Exercise Addiction
- Food Addiction
- Gambling Addiction
- Heroin Addiction
- Internet Addiction
- Ketamine Addiction
- Legal High Addiction
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Oppositional Defiance Disorder
- Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorders (OSFED)
- Perinatal Depression
- Personality Disorders
- Phobias
- Porn Addiction
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Prescription Drug Addiction Treatment
- Schizophrenia
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self Harm
- Sex and Love Addiction
- Sexual Dysfunction
- Shopping Addiction
- Sleep Disorders (Insomnia)
- Somatic Symptom Disorder (SSD)
- Spice Addiction
- Stimulant Addiction
- Stress
- Work Addiction
Qualifications
- Accredited with Federation of Drug and Alcohol Practitioners (FDAP)
- Accredited with National Counsellor Accreditation Certificate (NCAC)
- Advanced Diploma in Integrative Counselling and Therapy – WPF
- British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists Registered (BACPReg)
- Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR)