I hope you are keeping well and positive.
The Medical Prime team is passionate about bringing further expertise to your care. Earlier this year, as many of you will know, we welcomed Joel Fanuel to our team, an experienced pharmacist with a special interest in women’s health and HRT.
I am delighted to welcome Dr Connie Smith, a very experienced GP with a special interest in mental health and CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy), to the Medical Prime team.
Dr Connie holds degrees from Imperial College London, University College London and Northumbria University. She is passionate about high quality care and continuously developing her skills. Dr Connie is currently undertaking a Masters Degree in CBT at Buckinghamshire New University.
Dr Connie says, “I am very excited to be joining the team and supporting patients who would benefit from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. CBT is an innovative talking therapy that helps us learn how to control our automatic thoughts. We all experience a constant stream of these. These automatic thoughts connect with our emotions, behaviours and physical sensations. We usually believe our own thoughts even when they are wrong!
This is easiest to illustrate with an example. Following a difficult day because you lost your temper, your thread of thought or simply felt unable to cope, your brain becomes flooded with automatic negative thoughts, for instance that you are ‘a failure’. It is these thoughts which create your negative emotions. These negative thoughts if not controlled, could worsen and you could enter a spiral of depression.”
I am looking forward to working with Dr Connie in a shared care approach, in line with our holistic ethos. Dr Connie will be offering CBT sessions from June.
For more information please feel free to contact Zarina McCulloch, our Clinic Manager, at manager@medicalprime.co.uk