Dr Jane Blunden

I have over 20 years clinical experience working in the NHS as a psychiatrist and specialist psychotherapist.

My psychotherapy training within the NHS majored in psychodynamic psychotherapy and was in a department that valued brief therapy as well as longer term therapy.  My respect for psychotherapy of different types also developed there. I am a trainer and supervisor in cognitive analytic therapy (CAT) and, after I became an NHS consultant in 1997, I also went on to train as a group analyst.

Qualifications

Medical

• Medical degree:   MB.BCh.  (1984)
• Registered with the General Medical Council
• Postgraduate examination in psychiatry:   MRCPsych (1989)
• Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
• Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training (Psychotherapy) (1997)

Psychotherapy

• Diploma in Clinical Psychotherapy, King’s College, London (1992)
• Psychotherapist training with the Association for Cognitive Analytic Therapy,
• UKCP registered (ACAT, 1998)
• Accredited supervisor with the Association for Cognitive Analytic Therapy (1993)
• M.Sc. Group Analysis, Birkbeck College, University of London (2002)
• Qualifying Course in Group Analysis
• Member of the Institute of Group Analysis
• UKCP registered (IGA, 2005)