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Me and my practice

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I am Dr Denise Honeyborne, a BPS Chartered and HCPC Registered Psychologist, with a doctorate in Child and Educational Psychology.

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Alongside my core training, I have undertaken further specialist training as:
 

  • EMDR Trauma Therapist (Adults and Children)

  • Energy Psychotherapy Practitioner (Confer accredited)

  • Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (Level 2) practitioner

  • Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) Advanced Practitioner and Trainee Supervisor

  • BPS Registered Applied Psychology Practitioner Supervisor (RAPPS)

  • Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (AFBPsS)

  • UKCP Hypnotherapy-Psychotherapy

My doctoral research focused on neurodiversity and mental wellbeing, exploring how individual differences are understood within wider systems.
 
My practice has developed over more than 30 years of working with children, young people, and adults across a range of contexts, including mainstream and specialist settings.
 
My background includes training and practice as a teacher, offering a grounded understanding of development, learning, and relational life within real-world environments.

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I work across the lifespan and within the contexts that shape experience—home, education, and work—holding in mind that difficulties often emerge within relationships and environments, not in isolation.
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I offer individual psychological therapy to adults, children, and young people. My approach is relational, but also structured and clinically grounded. The overarching framework of my work is informed by the 8-phase EMDR protocol.
(Shapiro, 2018), providing a scaffold for safe and effective therapeutic work.

A significant part of therapy is dedicated to careful history taking, understanding patterns and context , developing internal resources, stabilisation and readiness.

Within this structure, change emerges through relationship—through being met in a way that allows new experience to take shape
(Schore, 2012).

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I work with all forms of psychological distress, with or without formal diagnosis. Experiences such as anxiety and depression are understood as meaningful responses within a broader life context, often rooted in past experience and relational history.

 

I also work with individuals at points of transition:

  • Relationship beginnings and endings

  • Changes in work or identity

  • Midlife and later life reflection

  • Moments of uncertainty and decision

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These moments, while often difficult, hold the potential for significant change and reorientation. Alongside this, a range of specialist approaches may be integrated.

Specialist approaches

EMDR

EMDR supports the processing of experiences that have become “stuck” within the nervous system, allowing integration and resolution (Shapiro, 2018).

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“The body keeps the score."
- Bessel van der Kolk

Specialist approaches

DDP

Level 2 trained in Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP), supporting adopted young people and their families through attachment-focused work grounded in safety and connection.

“Without a secure base,
the child cannot explore.”
- John Bowlby

Specialist approaches

Energy Psychotherapy

Energy psychotherapy integrates somatic and psychological processes. There is an emerging evidence base supporting its effectiveness in trauma and anxiety (Feinstein, 2012), and it is used as part of an integrative approach.

“The psyche is not in the head alone,
but in the whole body.”
- Mark Solms

Specialist approaches

VIG

Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) uses video feedback to enhance attunement and relational understanding.

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“The basic fault…
is in the area of early relationships.”
- Michael Balint

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Professional Framework & Ethics

My work is guided by HCPC and BPS standards.
 
This includes confidentiality and clear boundaries, regular supervision, ongoing professional development, engagement in personal therapy.
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Confidentiality is central, with clear explanation of its limits in line with safeguarding responsibilities.

These frameworks ensure the work remains safe, ethical, and grounded.

The Third Space

At the heart of Psytribe Psychology is the belief that healing begins in relationship.

Life can sometimes leave us feeling overwhelmed, disconnected or uncertain. I think of therapy as creating The Third Space - a place between surviving and thriving; between past experiences and future possibilities; between feeling overwhelmed and beginning to rediscover hope, confidence and connection.

It is a calm, compassionate and reflective space where difficulties can be explored safely, strengths can be recognised and new ways of understanding ourselves and our relationships can begin to develop.

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