CBT & Psychotherapy team
Natalie Dean
Natalie Dean
Natalie Dean
CBT Therapist and Mental Health Nurse
Nottinghamshire
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Natalie Dean, CBT Therapist and Mental Health Nurse
Natalie Dean is a highly skilled and compassionate Cognitive Behavioral Therapist and Senior Clinical Nurse with over 15 years of diverse experience, spanning roles in the police force, prison service, and community mental health nursing. Her passion and main focus lie in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR), where she specialises in treating psychological trauma and anxiety disorders. This includes extensive experience working with conditions such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) following lifechanging events and injuries, for which Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (TF-CBT) is the NICE recommended first line treatment and has a strong evidence base for effectiveness. She also routinely works clinically with Panic Disorder, Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Health Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and Social Anxiety.
Her approach is deeply person-centred, emphasising compassion, empathy, and a warm therapeutic relationship. She believes that effective mental health treatment begins with understanding each client’s unique experience and needs. In her private practice, she delivers highly personalised care, drawing on her experience and deep knowledge of CBT and EMDR. Natalie is committed to staying current with the latest research and best practices, regularly engaging in professional development to ensure her clients receive the most effective treatment available.
During her time in the police force and prison services, Natalie developed a robust understanding of the complex interplay between mental health, substance misuse, and contact with the criminal justice system. This experience shaped her ability to work effectively with individuals facing significant challenges, using a holistic approach to support recovery and stability. Transitioning to community mental health nursing further expanded her expertise, allowing her to work with a broad range of clients dealing with severe and chronic mental health conditions. Her role included direct patient care, crisis intervention, and the coordination of multidisciplinary teams to provide comprehensive support. This experience enhanced her skills in risk assessment and the development of tailored multidisciplinary care plans, ensuring that each client received the support they needed.
In addition to her current clinical work in CBT and EMDR, Natalie is passionate about teaching and has extensive experience educating medical students about psychiatry, with a special interest in teaching CBT. She finds great fulfilment in mentoring future mental health professionals, helping them develop the skills and knowledge required to excel in their careers. Her teaching style is interactive, focusing on experiential learning and critical thinking alongside a lived experience programme, for which she is clinical lead.
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Kate Fletcher, Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist
Kate Fletcher is a dedicated and compassionate Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist with substantial experience working with children and young people within CAMHS services. She is skilled in delivering evidence-based interventions for a wide range of emotional and behavioural difficulties, including anxiety disorders, depression, trauma, and self-harm. She is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), enabling her to adopt a flexible and integrative therapeutic approach tailored to individual needs.
She has developed particular expertise in the use of EMDR with children and adolescents who have experienced trauma, including those presenting with single-incident and complex post-traumatic stress disorder. She is skilled in adapting EMDR protocols to meet developmental needs, ensuring that interventions are delivered safely, sensitively, and effectively. Her work in this area has focused on supporting young people to process traumatic experiences, reduce distressing symptoms, and build resilience in order to promote long-term recovery and wellbeing.
In addition to her clinical practice, Kate has experience providing clinical CBT supervision to colleagues, supporting skill development and the implementation of best practice across teams. She has also designed and facilitated CBT-based group interventions for young people and developed and delivered training packages for staff within NHS trusts to strengthen service delivery and therapeutic competence.
She prides herself on her ability to establish strong therapeutic relationships, undertake comprehensive risk assessments, and work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams to ensure safe and effective treatment. She remains committed to ongoing professional development and to delivering high-quality, person-centred care that fosters recovery, resilience, and improved mental health outcomes for children and young people.