“Using health psychology to help people grow, teams thrive, and organisations deliver better care.”

- PKHC

Services

  • Clinical supervision for healthcare, cancer care, and social care professionals, providing a confidential, reflective space to support ethical practice, emotional processing, professional development, and psychological safety under sustained pressure.

    This service is suitable for individuals, teams, and senior practitioners working in high-responsibility roles and is delivered in line with UK professional standards as a regulated psychological service.

  • Psychological consultancy for healthcare and care organisations operating within complex, high-pressure environments, supporting leadership effectiveness, team dynamics, trauma-informed service design, and organisational wellbeing.

    This service addresses psychological safety, staff retention, burnout, and critical incident response at a systems level and is delivered as a regulated psychological intervention.

  • Facilitated reflective practice groups for multidisciplinary teams working with emotional intensity, trauma exposure, and clinical complexity, offering protected psychological space for reflection, shared learning, and emotional containment.

    Groups are designed to enhance team resilience, communication, and clinical safety and are delivered as a regulated psychological service.

  • Individual psychological support for professionals working in high-pressure roles, including healthcare, leadership, and social care, focusing on work-related stress, trauma exposure, moral injury, burnout, and professional identity strain.

    This service provides confidential, evidence-based psychological intervention tailored to occupational demands and is delivered as a regulated health service.

  • Structured, NHS-aligned psychological training for healthcare and social care organisations, focused on psychological safety, trauma-informed practice, emotional resilience, and safe systems of care.

    Training is mapped to recognised Level 1 (basic awareness training) & Level 2 (applied staff skills training) psychological awareness and skills standards commonly used across NHS and public sector services, supporting staff to recognise psychological risk, respond safely to distress, and maintain professional boundaries under pressure.

  • Psychological advisory and behavioural systems design for healthcare, pharmaceutical, MedTech, and complex service environments.

    This includes patient journey mapping, treatment adherence and engagement, behavioural risk communication, and pathway optimisation across regulated care settings.

    Work is formulation-led and focused on improving safety, follow-through, and functional outcomes across real-world clinical and industry contexts

  • Design and delivery of applied psychological research and service evaluation within healthcare, social care, and organisational settings.

    This includes qualitative and mixed-methods research, staff experience studies, patient and service-user feedback analysis, supervision and workforce research, and evaluation of psychological interventions, training programmes, and service change.

    All research is conducted to inform real-world practice, governance, and system improvement within regulated environments.

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Specialist Practice Areas

  • Psychological interventions within eating disorder services focused on behaviour change, emotional regulation, motivation, risk management, and sustained engagement for both service users and professionals.

    Work draws on health psychology, COM-B, and stages of change models to support safe decision-making, treatment engagement, boundary maintenance, and staff resilience under prolonged exposure to high-risk clinical environments.

    This work does not involve the delivery of therapy and is a regulated psychological intervention.

  • Psychological interventions within cancer and haematology services supporting how service users and professionals adapt to uncertainty, loss, treatment burden, and sustained emotional demand.

    Work focuses on behaviour under pressure, coping responses, treatment engagement, decision-making fatigue, and psychological safety using applied health psychology and behaviour change frameworks rather than therapy.

    All work is delivered as a regulated psychological intervention.

  • Psychological interventions for pain management and long-term condition services focused on behaviour change, adherence, pacing, emotional adjustment, and sustained engagement for both service users and healthcare professionals.

    Work applies self-regulation theory, motivation science, and COM-B models to support safe clinical interactions, boundary management, and realistic goal-setting rather than therapy.

    This is delivered as a regulated psychological intervention.

  • Psychological interventions within HIV and complex medical services addressing behaviour change, adherence, stigma, disclosure, emotional regulation, and sustained engagement for service users, alongside staff resilience, boundary maintenance, and decision-making under long-term care pressures.

    Work is grounded in health psychology and behaviour change science rather than therapy and is delivered as a regulated psychological intervention.

  • Psychological interventions for services experiencing regulatory pressure, inspection concern, or operational instability, supporting both service user safety and workforce behaviour under threat conditions.

    Work focuses on risk behaviour, defensive practice, leadership decision-making, staff withdrawal, communication breakdown, and service recovery using applied health psychology and behaviour change models rather than therapy.

    All work is delivered as a regulated psychological intervention.

  • Psychological interventions following serious incidents, deaths, safeguarding events, or service trauma, focused on stabilising behaviour, restoring decision-making capacity, supporting emotional regulation, and rebuilding safe systems of care for both service users and professionals.

    Work is grounded in trauma-informed behaviour change science and applied health psychology rather than therapy and is delivered as a regulated psychological intervention.

  • Standalone delivery of the Autism Diagnostic Interview–Revised (ADI-R) for organisations and service providers as part of a multidisciplinary team (MDT) assessment pathway within clinical, educational, and residential settings. The ADI-R is used to support structured information gathering, care planning, and pathway decision-making at service level and does not in itself constitute a diagnosis or standalone diagnostic outcome.

  • Stage 2 supervision for Health Psychology trainees undertaking their independent practice and portfolio completion under recognised professional standards.

    Supervision focuses on the safe application of health psychology competencies across behaviour change, intervention design, service evaluation, ethics, and professional identity development.

    Support is structured, outcomes-focused, and aligned with doctoral and Stage 2 requirements, ensuring trainees develop confidence, reflective capacity, and evidence-based practice as applied psychologists.

    This is delivered as a regulated professional supervision activity.