In this episode we talk about pregnancy and anxiety with Amandeep Soomal.

Amandeep is a Senior Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist and Lecturer at Oxford University and the Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre. She has over 15 years of experience of working in NHS mental health services and for the past ten years, has developed a clinical interest in perinatal mental health.

She has worked in primary care Talking Therapies services, specialist perinatal community mental health teams and some private practice. Her role at Oxford entails teaching on perinatal mental health and attachment considerations, incorporating diversity and inclusivity into her work.

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In this episode we're joined by Dr Jayne Morris from the University of Southampton to talk about the tolerance of uncertainty and how we can address it to improve out treatment outcomes.

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The fear of losing control is the topic of this podcast, where we are joined by Joel Lewin, a trainee clinical psychologist at the University of Oxford, who talks about his work in this field and the research he is undertaking into it.

If anyone would like to participate in the research, they can email Joel at joel.lewin@hmc.ox.ac.uk or find more information on their website https://bit.ly/losingcontrolinfo

Joel is particularly interested in hearing from people who experience a) problems with panic; or b) problems with obsessions or compulsions/ OCD; or c) people with no mental health difficulties.

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In this episode we talk to Dr Harry Fagan, Academic Clinical Fellow (ACF) in General Adult Psychiatry at the University of Southampton and his work researching anxiety disorders and especially about the role of the neurotransmitter orexin in anxiety disorders and whether drugs which block the orexin system might help people with anxiety disorders.

If you want to know any more about the study or the research in general, please contact Dr Fagan via email h.fagan@soton.ac.uk.

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In this episode we are joined by Dr Elaine Beaumont, a psychotherapist specialising in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR). Elaine is also a Lecturer in Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of Salford.

Here we discuss the benefits of compassion focused approach to therapy and being kind to yourself.

You can read more about Elaine's work here https://beaumontpsychotherapy.co.uk/

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We are joined in this episode by the Chief Executive of Mind Over Mountains, Ian Sansbury, to discuss the mental health benefits of walking in nature and mindfulness in an unhurried, unpressurised setting.

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In this episode we are joined by Allen Tran, an associate professor of anthropology at Bucknell University.

He is the author of A life of worry: Politics, mental health, and Vietnam's age of anxiety, which is available on Open Access through the University of California Press, and teaches classes on medical anthropology and Southeast Asia.

His book - A life of worry - can be downloaded here University of California Press (luminosoa.org)

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In this episode we talk to Dr Andrew Rosen about the link between sex and anxiety, whether that is the cause of your anxieties or a consequence of your anxiety.

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