Samantha Tait
Samantha Tait has 17 years of experience working in forensic and mental health settings. She is experienced in helping people with mental illness and/or personality disorders as well as other co-morbid difficulties including substance use, affective disorders and cognitive impairment. She has significant experience in therapies for substance use, psychosis, anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), including complex PTSD. She is a qualified dialectical behaviour therapist and eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) therapist.
Samantha specialises in working with trauma and supporting people in processing what has happened to them and moving forward towards a brighter future where they can feel safe and content. She will offer evidence-based treatment that is tailored to individual needs and delivered in a style and at a pace that is comfortable for the client. She offers online therapy and aims to create a safe forum in which the client can explore their difficulties and make sense of what has happened to them. She will develop a treatment plan with the client which will allow them to work through their blocks and experience the things that they want to in life.
Training
- MSc Forensic Psychology (Pass with Merit), Manchester Metropolitan University 2002.
- BSc (Honours) Psychology, Goldsmiths College, University of London 2000.
- May 2007: Centre for Supervision Training Becoming an effective supervisor
- June 2007: The AIM ProjectAIM2 – an Initial Assessment Model for Young People who Display Sexually Harmful Behaviour
- November 2007: Bowland Psychological Services, Lancashire WAIS-III
- December 2007: Bowland Psychological Services, Lancashire/Phoenix Psychological Services, Lancashire
- Understanding, Managing, and Assessing Personality Disorder including the IPDE
- December 2007: HM Prison Service Spousal Assault Risk Assessment
- March 2008: Violence Risk Training Workshops START (Short Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability)
- June 2008: Bowland Psychological Services, Lancashire Interpretation of the WAIS-III
- April 2009: Professor Jane Ireland, Phoenix Psychological Services Expert Witness Skills Training
- March 2009: Violence Risk Training Workshops Assessing Psychopathic Personality Disorder (PCL-R)
- November 2016 - May 2017: British Isles DBT Training Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Intensive Training
- December 2020 - March 2021: EMDR Academy EMDR Europe Accredited Training
- October 2021: EMDR Academy EMDR Refresher Training
Services Offered
Conditions Treated
- Qualified dialectical behaviour therapist.
- Qualified EMDR therapist.
- Samantha Tait is a Chartered and Associate member of the British Psychological Society (C.Psychol) and accredited with HCPC.