I am a qualified and experienced Psychotherapist. In both my work and private life, I strive to be a compassionate, hardworking, and reliable individual. As a member of the BACP (British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy) I adhere closely to their guidelines for moral and ethical practice in all my work. I use evidence-based practice and draw on a range of interventions to help people resolve issues and reach their potential.
Sally Ann Picton
Psychotherapist

View Contact & Address details
Sally Ann Picton
Sally Picton re-joined Priory as a Psychotherapist in the new outpatient service in Bristol in 2020. She worked at Priory Hospital Bristol for many years, both as an administrator and a therapist prior to 2013.
Sally delivers counselling and psychotherapy to outpatients on a one to one basis for long term and short term sessions.
Training
- Sally completed a post-graduate diploma at the University of Wales. Her training comprised of person-centred cognitive behavioural therapy. Since qualifying Sally has widened her experience through training and development to integrate the other types of therapy.
- Sally also completed a further post graduate certificate in evidence based practice at the University of Exeter in 2015.
Research interests
- Obsessive compulsive disorder
- Relationship issues
Clinical articles and research papers
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder: Evidence-based treatments and future directions for research, Dec 2012.
Find a treatment location
Specialist Areas
Services Offered
Conditions Treated
- Addiction Treatment
- Adjustment Disorder
- Alcohol Rehabilitation
- Anger Management
- Anxiety
- Anxiety Attack Treatment
- Asperger Syndrome
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD and ADD
- Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- Bereavement
- Binge Eating Disorder (BED)
- Bipolar Disorder
- Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)
- Bulimia Nervosa
- Cannabis Addiction
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)
- Depression
- Drug Rehabilitation
- Eating Disorders
- Exercise Addiction
- Food Addiction
- Gambling Addiction
- Gender Dysphoria
- Internet Addiction
- Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS)
- Mental Health Treatment
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorders (OSFED)
- Perinatal Depression
- Phobias
- Plastic Surgery Addiction
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Selective Mutism
- Self Harm
- Sexual Dysfunction
- Shopping Addiction
- Sleep Disorders (Insomnia)
- Somatic Symptom Disorder (SSD)
- Spice Addiction
- Stress
- Tourette's Syndrome
- Treatment Resistant Depression
- Trichotillomania
- Work Addiction
Qualifications
- Advanced counselling skills
- Evidence-Based treatment PGCERT, University of Exeter
- Intermediate counselling skills, City of Bristol College
- PGCert counselling skills, University of Wales
- Post Graduate Diploma Therapeutic Counselling – Cognitive Behavioural