Portrait of Dr Tim Knowlson

 

About me

I have always been fascinated by people’s experiences, stories, language and choices. How do we create meaning in the world? Build connections? Adapt to an always-changing world around us with self-compassion? How can we respond resiliently and with agility to newness and yet make some room for things we cannot change?

My journey in psychology started in 2002 as a student of Psychology with an M.A. from the University of St Andrews. I then went on to successfully complete my PsychD in Psychotherapeutic and Counselling Psychology from the University of Surrey.

I have 13 years of clinical, managerial, supervisory and consultancy experience. I am chartered with the British Psychological Society (BPS) and registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). I have Professional Indemnity Insurance.

  • I believe therapeutic contact is to empower insightfully driven meaningful change where possible and to promote acceptance of the things we cannot change. I encourage values of empathy, respect, confidentiality, curiosity, focus and appropriate challenge. I like to work collaboratively in the supervisory relationship fostering equality and responsibility.

    My preferred modality is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and third-wave Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) approaches. I have trained with Russ Harris and Kirk Strosahl. Of particular interest are brief therapy models, including Focussed Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (FACT) in which I am also trained. I also use Mindfulness concepts in my therapeutic work.

    As a result of my counselling psychology training and clinical experience, I remain integratively curious and open to different modalities of assessing, formulating and working with a client. My aim is to provide bespoke supervisee-driven virtual supervision using evidence-based theories, research and strategies.

    I am trained to use:

    Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

    Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

    Focussed Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (FACT)

    Person-Centred Therapy

    Psychodynamic Therapy

    Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT)

    I have experience with short-term and longer-term work.

  • Experience of working with a wide range of clients across the lifespan with many ages, especially with adolescents.

    Experience of working with a diverse range of people from different gender identities, ethnic and cultural backgrounds, sexual identities and disabilities.

    Experience of working with presenting issues from mild to severe & enduring.

Where I have worked

  • University of Oxford

  • University of Oxford

    King’s College London

    University of Surrey

  • Neurological Rehabilitation Service

    Health Psychology Service

    Primary Care Service

    CMHRS Secondary Care Service

    Tertiary Care Psychotherapy Service

  • Low Secure Hospital for Residents with Autistic Spectrum Condition and SPLD

Awards

  • 2020; 2017.

  • 2017; Category Digital Media out of 87 entries.

  • 2006; University of St Andrews Students’ Association for services with Nightline.