Dr Max Eames
Honorary Research Assistant
Clinical Director
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 clinical and supervisory experience in both private-sector and NHS-affiliated settings.
Max serves as a Clinical Director of the Wellbeing and Psychological Services Centre, heading its counselling and psychotherapy services activities. The centre offers psychology-enriched training, counselling, coaching, and positive psychology interventions, all whilst forging links with industry partners and community support services.
A fellow of the Higher Education Academy, he is also a BPS-registered applied psychology practitioner supervisor (RAPPS), an accredited mental health first aid (MHFA) instructor, a trainer and facilitator certificated by the Institute of Leadership and Management, and an experienced academic whose teaching extends across a range of subjects and disciplines within the School of Psychology.
Areas Of Interest
- Cognitive, cognitive-behavioural, and metacognitive approaches to psychotherapy in the context of working with maladaptive information-processing and with emotional disorders.
- The place of strengths-based approaches in healthcare, business, and social contexts in providing individuals and groups with an alternative means of viewing and understanding themselves.
- Resilience-building strategies, tools, and techniques which can improve both individual and interpersonal wellbeing, all whilst alleviating mood-states such as depression and anxiety.
- Anxiety disorders including social anxiety, obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, and struggles with rumination, worry, and unwanted intrusive thoughts (UITs).
- The therapeutic use of metaphors, imagery, metacognitive rationales, and other conceptual frames in encouraging mindful and adaptive understandings of psychological distress.
OVERVIEW
As an experienced clinician, supervisor, and executive coach, Max 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 considered experientially in weekly supervision groups. In so doing, he supports the professional development of those who serve their communities through the provision of psychological support.
CURRENT RESEARCH
Max’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 applied research considers whether and how acceptance-based psychoeducation has a bearing on the management of psychological distress.
MODULES
Max is part of a team of academics who maintain a pluralistic approach to education and a commitment to valuing diversity as a means of widening access to it. A core philosophical assumption of pluralism is that of embracing a multiplicity of truths. In keeping with this ethos, Max’s teaching commitments have included module leadership of the following:
- Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy Approaches (GC5804)
- Clinical Practice and Supervision (GC6801)
- Interpersonal Skills (PY2910)
- Therapeutic Psychology and Practice (PY6016)
- Research Methods (GC5805)
- Working with Diversity and Ethics (GC4804)
- Core Skills and Processes in Counselling (GC4801)
TEACHING
BSc (Hons) Psychology
Studying for a BSc in Psychology, you will develop a good knowledge of the influences on, and factors involved in, human functioning in all the core areas of psychology.
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