Overview
Lexy has worked with clients experiencing a range of mental health difficulties and distress. Her therapeutic approach focuses on using warmth and curiosity with the aim of supporting clients to develop an understanding about their difficulties, and helpful ways to work with them.
Lexy was drawn to Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) as it focuses on helping us understand psychological pain and distress using ideas from evolutionary psychology, with an emphasis on skills training to develop a ‘compassionate self-identity’. The aim is that, with this knowledge and training, comes the strength and courage needed to turn towards difficulties and live a life with meaning. Lexy recognises the importance of this approach and brings it to all areas of her daily life.
Lexy’s therapeutic approach is predominately informed by CFT but can also draw on ideas from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, including 3rd wave approaches, such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
Lexy’s areas of interest include working with adults with problems with anxiety, depression, self-criticism and longer-standing difficulties. Lexy used to work in the NHS with adults with Learning Disabilities, who may also have had other neurodevelopmental disorders such as Autism Spectrum Disorder. Lexy currently works solely in private practice offering CFT-informed work to individuals and organisations.
Overall, Lexy considers it to be an immense privilege to work in this field and is always guided by the intention to find helpful ways forward for each individual client, appreciating difference and diversity, and adapting the work as needed.
Therapist information
English
Doctor in Clinical Psychology (DClinPsy)
HCPC Registered Clinical Psychologist (PYL33644) BPS Chartered Member (406744)
Individuals, Groups, Organisations
Key training, CPD events & other relevant experiences: - Through the Compassionate Mind Foundation: CFT Introductory & Advanced Clinical Skills (2019); Annual Conference (2020); Therapeutic Relationship (2021); Integrating Motivational Interviewing (2022); Pain Management (2022); Complex PTSD (2022); Anxiety (2022); Creating a Compassionate World Lecture Series (2022/2023); Grief (2023); Relationships & Couples (2023). - Through Compassionate Wellbeing: Self-Criticism (2020); Shame Memories (2021); Mindful Compassion (2021); Cultivating the Compassionate Mind (2021); Fears, Blocks and Resistances (2021); Anger (2021); Anxiety (2021); The Biography of the Self-Critic (2022); Depression (2022); Socratic Questioning (2023). - Through Contextual Consulting: Using Values (2020); An Introduction to ACT (2020); Relational Frame Theory Made Simple (2020); ACT Made Simple: for Beginners and ACT for Depression and Anxiety with Russ Harris (2021); Super-charge your CFT (2023). - Through CBTReach: CFT for Shame-Based Trauma (2021); Compassionate Leadership (2022). - Other: CFT for Attachment Trauma & Personality Disorder (Gilbert & Lucre, 2020); ACT: 100 Key Points and Techniques (Bennett & Oliver, 2020); Understanding Suicide Risk (O’Connor, 2021); Trauma (Irons, 2022); Toxic Shame (Sieff, 2023); CF Chair Work (Bell & Pugh, 2023). - Meditation courses: attended the 8-week Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy programme as a participant in 2010, 2011 & 2015. Christmas meditation retreat on the Holy Isle in 2014. Key Publications: - Rose, A., Tupper, M., & Irons, C. (2023). Employee Support During COVID-19 Using Compassionate Mind Training. OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine, 8(1), 1-14. - Rose, A. V., McIntyre, R., & Rimes, K. A. (2018) Compassion focused intervention for highly self-critical individuals: Pilot study. Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapy, 46, 583 – 600. - Rose, A. V., & Rimes, K. A. (2018) Self‐criticism self‐report measures: Systematic review. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 91, 450 – 489.
