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Dr Max Eames

Honorary Research Assistant

Honorary Senior Lecturer

Wellbeing and Psychological Services Centre

Department of Professional Psychology , School of Childhood and Social Care

Dr Max Eames is a chartered psychologist (BPS) and senior-accredited psychotherapist (BACP) with extensive teaching, clinical and supervisory experience in both private-sector and NHS-affiliated settings.

He is also a BPS-registered applied psychology practitioner supervisor (RAPPS), a trainer and facilitator certificated by the Institute of Leadership and Management, and an accredited mental health first aid (MHFA) instructor.

Qualifications

  • Master of Arts in Counselling and Psychotherapy
  • PhD in Psychology

Areas Of Interest

  • Cognitive, cognitive-behavioural, and metacognitive approaches to psychotherapy.
  • The place of strengths-based approaches in healthcare, business, and social contexts.
  • Anxiety disorders, including social anxiety and obsessive-compulsive and related disorders.
  • The therapeutic use of metaphors, imagery, metacognitive rationales, and other conceptual frames.

 

 

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OVERVIEW

As an experienced clinician, supervisor, and executive coach, Dr Eames interrogates in his teaching the boundaries and overlaps between counselling, psychotherapy, and coaching psychology.

Providing both undergraduate and postgraduate training, his workshops offer subject-area expertise whose themes are intended to be understood experientially.

In a manner that is engaging and relatable, he supports the professional development of those who serve their communities through the provision of psychological support.

RESEARCH

Dr Eames’s research interests concern the impact that metacognitive rationales for private internal experiences can have on various forms of experiential avoidance. He maintains a particular concern for understanding how unwanted intrusive thoughts (UITs) are conceptualised and managed by those who experience obsessive-compulsive phenomena. In this context, his clinical practice considers whether and how acceptance-based psychoeducation has a bearing on the management of psychological distress. 

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