Rai offers psychological therapy to individuals. He specialises in anxiety and stress using Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and, where appropriate, integrating elements of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy. His aim is to support you to understand your difficulties and to find solutions that enable you to feel better and to live your life as you really want to. Therapy begins with identifying your goals, how you want to change, and then works towards supporting your achievement of your goals.
Rai is an experienced Clinical Psychologist who has worked professionally for over 30 years in the NHS and in private practice. In the NHS he held Consultant Psychologist and Head of Service posts, his last full-time post as Head of Psychology and Psychotherapy in a division of South London and Maudsley Foundation NHS Trust.
In addition to Clinical Psychology, Rai trained to be a Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy practitioner with the Oxford Mindfulness Centre/Foundation and took two additional courses to deliver Mindfulness for Life, and Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World. More recently he took a course in Integrating Mindfulness into Cognitive Behaviour Therapy with the Beck Institute.
Contact:
email rai@ntpsychology.com
or SMS text +44 (0) 7563 121348
Professional Status
Registered Practitioner (Clinical) Psychologist (Health & Care Professions Council PYL22383)
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Chartered Psychologist (British Psychological Society)
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Highest Degree
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), in Psychology, by thesis. University of the Witwatersrand, 1998
Clinical qualifications/training
Registered Clinical Psychologist, South African Medical and Dental Council, August 1988
British Psychological Society Statement of Equivalence in Clinical Psychology April 1996
Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy practitioner: training courses with the Oxford Mindfulness Centre, Oxford University, 2017-2018; additional modules Mindfulness for Life 2020, and Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World 2020
Integrating Mindfulness into Cognitive Behaviour Therapy with the Beck Institute, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania USA 2023
Clinical Experience
Private practice Johannesburg 1988-1995 then United Kingdom
Counselling Service, Witwatersrand University 1988
Clinical Psychologist then Consultant Psychologist and Head of Services in a division of Lincolnshire Partnership FT 1995-2011
Consultant Psychologist and Head of Psychology and Psychotherapy in a division of South London and Maudsley FT 2011-2017
Locum Psychologist Hertfordshire Partnership FT 2017 to date
Teaching experience
Tutor, Academic Support Programme, Witwatersrand University 1985-1986
Lecturer in Psychology, Witwatersrand University 1988-1995
Research Tutor, Sherwood Psychotherapy Training Institute, Nottingham 1995-2001
Visiting Lecturer, Trent Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, Lincoln and Nottingham, 2010-2022