Paul Grantham

Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Founder and Director of SDS Seminars, a Senior Associate of The Royal Society of Medicine, Accredited CBT Therapist

"I personally use different approaches depending on the client I am working with. I strongly believe in broadening one’s therapeutic toolkit, not narrowing it."

Biography

Paul Grantham is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with vast clinical and training experience.

With degrees from Oxford University and the University of Sussex, Paul trained as a Clinical Psychologist at Liverpool University. He worked extensively within the NHS for many years within a wide variety of services and headed one of the first UK research projects designed to help clients withdraw from benzodiazepine addiction. He also holds an Honorary Chair in Clinical Psychology at PSMedUniv.

He has worked in primary care, mental health, forensic, substance misuse and physical health as both a clinician and manager and has trained a range of professionals both within the therapy fields and beyond in health care, social services, local government and education. Both within the UIK as well as in Europe and every other continent. Over 200,000 professionals have worked directly with him. Paul has also designed and facilitated clinical supervision systems across a number of UK services.

He has a wide range of current interests including: client resistance, resource-based therapies and CBT. He has also presented and written on a range of psychological issues - from psychological interventions post-stroke to the application of solution focused work with complex clients.

He currently offers both clinical supervision to both psychotherapy practitioners as well as to clinical supervisors as well. For further details contact Paul via info@sds-seminars.com

Clinically he continues to work with clients privately using a Single Session Therapy model and can be contacted EITHER by referral agents or by clients directly at info@sds-seminars.com

Paul is the founder and Director of SDS Ltd and is one of the most popular and inspirational tutors in the field of psychological skills training.

Paul is the author or editor of over 84 training films within the psychotherapy training field over the two decades and both commissions and provides training in a range of contemporary psychotherapy fields.

He is an author of four books, with his latest one FREE YOURSELF FROM IMPOSTOR SYNDROME: HOW INTEGRATED CBT CAN WORK FOR YOU: A practical, step-by-step guide to self-empowerment reaching #1 spot on Amazon in two categories.

Paul delivers two of SDS Seminars’ most popular BPS Approved courses. The Introduction to CBT has recently (June 2025) celebrated its 3,000th successful graduate. The Essential Clinical Supervision Skills course, devised and delivered by Paul, is one of the very few non-university programmes that confer eligibility for entry onto the BPS Register of Applied Psychology Practice Supervisors.

Paul is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist, a Senior Associate of The Royal Society of Medicine and is a BABCP Accredited CBT Therapist.

An extremely informed, clinically experienced and humorous speaker he is known for his emphasis on the practicalities rather than just the theory of client-based work.

December 2019 issue of The British Psychological Society Magazine, The Psychologist, features a two-page long interview with Paul Grantham. Read it here.

For enquiries about Clinical Supervision, Mentoring, or Consultancy with Paul Grantham, email the office info@sds-seminars.com