Clinical Psychologist
Dr Holly Jones
HCPC #PYL30234
She/her
“You’re not broken. Everything you’re struggling with makes sense in the context of what you’ve been through.”
WHO I help
For young children, teenagers and adults. Room for every stage of life.
A young child who struggles with big feelings and behaviours. A teenager navigating health problems alongside everything else growing up brings. An adult living with pain, fatigue or experiences that still affect how they feel. Holly works across the lifespan, supporting individuals and families with the emotional and everyday impact of physical health conditions, trauma, attachment wounds and loss.
Working with young children is a particular part of Holly’s practice. She uses sandtrays, drawing, stories and games to help children express themselves without needing to find the right words. Play and creativity can make therapy feel more safe, accessible and sometimes fun. Teenagers and adults are welcome to use these approaches too.
Across all ages, Holly has a special interest in the connection between physical and mental health. She understands the anxiety of medical symptoms and procedures, the frustration of being limited by pain or exhaustion, and what it can feel like to live with differences other people notice—or don’t recognise at all. Her practice, Psychology for Health Matters, makes room for both the physical experience and everything it brings with it: changes in relationships, confidence, independence and how someone sees their future.
“Lots of my clients are ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.”
how i work
Getting to know the person, at their pace.
Holly begins by building trust and understanding what life feels like for the person in front of her. Together, they explore what has happened, what sense they have made of it, and how they have needed to cope. With a young child, that understanding might emerge through a story or a sandtray. With a teenager or adult, it might start with listening to a story they have told a hundred times with new ears.
She helps clients notice when ways of coping that once helped have become exhausting: staying constantly busy, hiding feelings, or repeatedly trying to solve something that cannot simply be fixed. Her approach draws on child and adult cognitive behavioural therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, interpersonal therapy and EMDR. These offer different ways to understand patterns, respond to difficult thoughts and feelings, explore relationships or process traumatic experiences. Narrative and behavioural family approaches also inform her work, depending on the person and their circumstances.
Clients don’t need to know which therapy they want before they arrive. Holly brings more than 20 years of hospital experience, alongside work in courtrooms, prisons and a brain injury unit. She is familiar with the specialist treatments and equipment some people need to stay well, and understands that psychological support needs to fit the realities of their lives.
“I hold my clients in mind all the time. Not just thinking about their next session, but when I know they have a big day ahead, or when I hear a song they’ve talked about.”
It's nice to meet you!
Sea air, sequins and an unpredictable frisbee.
Holly also works as a senior clinical psychologist in the NHS, providing specialist support for children in hospital, and values being able to welcome people of all ages through her private practice. Outside work, she’s fuelled by sea air, good books and sequins at any opportunity. One thing she avoids is throwing a frisbee in public—it never quite goes in the intended direction.
Specialisms
Anxiety
Depression
Trauma & PTSD
Chronic pain
Parenting
Session information
£100+
In-person and online
psychologyforhealthmatters.co.uk
drhollyjonesenquiry@gmail.com
