Halina Brunning - chartered clinical psychologist

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MY WORK AND BACKGROUND

WELCOME TO MY WEBSITE

I am a Chartered Clinical Psychologist with over thirty years experience. I have worked in the National Health Service as a clinician, therapist, supervisor, manager and consultant. I have published extensively on clinical and management issues and have co-written three books and over 20 articles on these subjects.

In parallel, I have worked as an Organisational Consultant for the last twenty years with a variety of public sector organisations. My approach is psychological and psychodynamic and is informed by the Tavistock Clinic's consultancy training, which I completed in 1991. Additionally, I have also trained as a Change Agent, Facilitator, Group Leader and Executive Coach in a number of training organisations including the Institute of Group Analysis, Institute of Family Therapy, the King's Fund Centre, South West Thames Region and Quorum Organisational Psychologists International.

I am an Associate Fellow with the British Psychological Society.

I am BUPA recognised provider of psychological services.

I am registered with GLEA for the purpose of offering training and consultancy to Local Authorities.

WHAT SERVICES CAN I OFFER

PRIVATE CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
I am a specialist in Brief Psychological Therapy. Brief Psychological Therapy is a psychological approach to helping people deal with distressing emotional problems and difficulties in life.

The approach involves meeting on a number of occasions with a qualified clinical practitioner (Chartered Clinical Psychologist) with expertise and experience in dealing with such problems. Chartered Clinical Psychologists, through their training and experience are equipped with interventions known to be effective for many people in distress.

I bring a wide range of expertise to my practice, which aims to help people cope better with emotional and psychological problems.

I believe that everybody has the right to be treated as a unique individual and my practice reflects this. I select and design appropriate therapeutic approaches for each client, with the aims and goals of therapy being individually negotiated within a confidential therapeutic relationship.

PUBLIC SECTOR CONSULTANCY
Organisational consultancy can be of benefit to individuals, groups and teams of public sector organisations such as the NHS, Social Services and Education at times when rapid change, reconfigurations, reorganisations, mergers, de-mergers, partnership formation, single management of multi-agency teams, national curriculum, clinical governance, value for money, best value and risk management etc are driving the overt agenda.

To individuals I can offer confidential sessions on role clarification and organisational dynamics, new strategies to cope with demands and organisational stress, executive coaching, mentoring and personal development options.

To your team I can offer process facilitation, work reflection sessions, team review and evaluation, psychological approaches to interdisciplinary and multi-agency problems and conflict resolution strategies.

To your Organisation I can offer psychological approaches to help with organisational conflict, strategies for dealing with post-merger culture clash and other pressures resulting from trying to implement major organisational changes.

EXECUTIVE COACHING
Executive coaching is defined as a negotiated relationship, which enables clients to take stock of their current work role and to help them identify new possibilities, to harness appropriate personal and organisational resources in order to enhance their own work performance.

Executive coaching has been recognised as an effective way of delivering changes to the client's critical thinking and of promoting individual confidence and competencies.

PUBLICATIONS

The Change Directory
(1990) Halina Brunning, Carol Cole, Clare Huffington, DCP BPS

Internal Consultancy in the Public Sector
(1994) Clare Huffington, Halina Brunning, Karnac Books

A Manual of Organisational Development - the Psychology of Change
(1997) Clare Huffington, Carol Cole, Halina Brunning, Karnac Books