Dr Bryony Insua-Summerhays has come to Oxford Mind and Body alongside her role as a Senior Clinical Psychologist in the NHS, working with individuals experiencing long-standing depression, dysthymia, anxiety, OCD, PTSD, relational trauma, as well as difficulties with sense of identity and relationships. Having completed her clinical doctorate at the University of Oxford, working across the lifespan to train intensively in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Systemic Family Therapy, Bryony has since gone on to achieve accreditation as a Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT) practitioner, as well as having undertaken additional training in Schema Focused Therapy.
Bryony’s practice as a psychologist sits between pragmatic, symptom-focused intervention toward loosening or relieving immediate manifestations of a problem, and longer-term, exploratory work to facilitate self-development. She draws on a range of methods and techniques to work flexibility and creatively within the therapeutic process at a pace that suits the individual.
Her research and academic interests include the investigation of social cognition in autism, theoretical perspectives on therapeutic empathy, and the clinical and ethical implications of psychedelic psychotherapy.
