Paul Grantham
"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 three books, with his latest one I WANT TO STOP PROCRASTINATING NOW: A practical step-by-step programme that solves all your procrastination problems reaching #1 spot on Amazon in three categories.
Paul commissioned SDS Seminars' BPS Approved Introduction to CBT - a course which has recently (June 2022) seen its 2000th student successfully complete. The BPS Approved Essential Clinical Supervision Skills devised and delivered by Paul is one of the very few non-university based Supervision courses which confers eligibility to 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.