I am a dedicated clinician with extensive experience of offering effective therapeutic intervention to children, adolescents and adults. I work with a wide range of difficulties, which range in severity and complexity. My clinical expertise and commitment to keeping up-to-date with the best treatment approaches, ensures that what I offer and recommend is evidence-based and of a gold standard.
Sharon Sandu
Accredited Psychotherapist | Accredited EMDR Therapist
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Sharon Sandu
Sharon joined Priory in 2012 as a therapist at Priory Hospital Woodbourne. Sharon provided individual and group therapeutic input to the child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) inpatient wards, adult inpatient ward and outpatient day therapy services. In 2016, Sharon joined Priory Wellbeing Centre Birmingham, where she continues to offer specialised therapeutic intervention to patients of all ages.
Training
Sharon graduated from The University of Birmingham with a Bachelor of Science (with Honours) in Psychology. Sharon then completed her Masters of Science in Counselling Psychology postgraduate degree at Keele University. Sharon has achieved accredited psychotherapist status with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and has gained accredited eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) practitioner status with the EMDR Association UK and Ireland.
Sharon is committed to the highest standards of clinical practice and completes ongoing further training to ensure that she has the up-to date knowledge, skills and expertise to offer high quality care. Sharon’s extensive clinical experience includes several years of work as a therapist in independent inpatient hospitals, NHS outpatient services and in private practice.
Languages
- English
- Conversational Punjabi
Specialist Areas
Services Offered
Conditions Treated
- Adjustment Disorder
- Anger Management
- Anorexia Nervosa
- Anxiety
- Bereavement
- Binge Eating Disorder (BED)
- Bipolar Disorder
- Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)
- Bulimia Nervosa
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)
- Conduct Disorder
- Depression
- Drug Induced Psychosis
- Eating Disorders
- Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS)
- Mental Health Treatment
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Oppositional Defiance Disorder
- Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorders (OSFED)
- Perinatal Depression
- Personality Disorders
- Phobias
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Schizophrenia
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self Harm
- Sexual Dysfunction
- Sleep Disorders (Insomnia)
- Somatic Symptom Disorder (SSD)
- Stress
- Tourette's Syndrome
- Treatment Resistant Depression
- Trichotillomania
- Young People’s Services
Qualifications
- Accredited member of EMDR Association UK & Ireland
- Accredited registered member of British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP Accredited)
- Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Psychology with Honours (Hons)
- Clinical supervision certificate
- Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) certificate
- EMDR child and adolescent training (all parts completed)
- Eye movement desensitisation reprocessing (EMDR) trained (all parts completed)
- Life coaching Diploma
- Master of Science (MSc) in Counselling Psychology
- Member of Trauma Aid UK
- Mindfulness-based cognitive behavioural therapy (MBCT) training
- R-TEP G-TEP EMDR trained
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