Chris

Accredited (BABCP) Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist, Accredited EMDR Practitioner & CBT Supervisor.

Chris began his career in Nursing, spending time in sexual health and then psychology. He went on to become an Accredited (BABCP) Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist, Accredited EMDR Practitioner & CBT Supervisor. 

Chris has been working in mental health for 17 years and in psychological services for 10 years.  Chris trained at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at Kings College London, the Anna Freud Centre and the University of Essex.  Chris currently works as a clinical lead in a busy London NHS psychology service and is a lecturer at the University Of Hertfordshire on their CBT Masters course.  

 

Training

PGDip Cognitive Behavioural Therapies – Kings College London

PGDip Low-intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Interventions – University of Essex

PGCert Mental Health Studies – Anglia Ruskin University

PGCert Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy – Anna Freud Centre

EMDR Training Parts 1-4 – EMDR Works

Group Psychotherapy Training – University College London

Counselling Diploma – Chelmsford Counselling Foundation

Counselling Studies – Chelmsford Counselling Foundation

 

Publications/ Research

Skilbeck, Lilian & Spanton, Christopher. (2022). Delivery of a trauma-focused CBT group for heterogeneous single-incident traumas in adult primary care: a follow-on case study. The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist. 15. 10.1017/S1754470X22000149.

 

Skilbeck, Lilian & Spanton, Christopher & Roylance, Ian. (2021). Integrated Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Comorbid Combat-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Case Study with a Military Veteran. Clinical Case Studies. 20. 153465012110069. 10.1177/15346501211006922.

 

Skilbeck, Lilian & Spanton, Christopher & Roylance, Ian. (2020). Client-led culturally responsive CBT – integrating familism in the treatment of chronic depression: a case study. The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist. 13. 10.1017/S1754470X20000471.

 

Skilbeck, Lilian & Spanton, Christopher & Roylance, Ian. (2020). Beyond the COVID-19 pandemic: ‘Learning the hard way’ – Adapting long-term IAPT service provision using lessons from past outbreaks. The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist. 13. 1-23. 10.1017/S1754470X20000379.

 

Skilbeck, Lilian & Spanton, Christopher. (2020). Primary care community engagement – delivery of an enhanced and brief homogeneous group TF-CBT intervention for trauma from a single-incident road traffic accident: a case study. The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist. 13. 10.1017/S1754470X20000227.

 

Skilbeck, Lilian & Spanton, Christopher & Roylance, Ian. (2020). Helping clients ‘ restart their engine ’ – use of in-session cognitive behavioural therapy behavioural experiments for engagement and treatment in persistent depression: a case study. The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist. 13. 10.1017/S1754470X20000070.

 

Skilbeck, L., Spanton, C. & Paton, M. Patients’ lived experience and reflections on long COVID: an interpretive phenomenological analysis within an integrated adult primary care psychology NHS service. J Patient Rep Outcomes 7, 30 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41687-023-00570-2