Anna Perrin
Clinical Psychologist
South Shrewsbury CMHT
Winston Churchill Building
Radbrook College
Shrewsbury SY3 9BL
Tel: 01743 254050

I work with people in Shrewsbury aged between 16 and 65, as part of a community mental health team. I work part time alongside Guy Holmes with whom I share an office.

I often offer a psychodynamic form of therapy, but am also influenced by other therapeutic
approaches. I have a longstanding interest in staff welfare and previously managed both the local Staff Counselling Service and Shropshire's GP Counselling Service. At present I am available to provide counseling and therapy as part of the Shropshire GP counseling service

I am a commited supervisor and provide clinical supervision both within the CMHT and the wider department. I also provide supervision to junior doctors undertaking psychotherapeutic work. I am a core member of the Trauma Response Team, providing a support and debriefing service to staff experiencing critical incidents at work. I am co facilitator with Tina Griffiths of a training programme, on thinking about therapeutic relationships, for junior doctors in psychiatry.

Working in a CMHT can be very varied and I enjoy working with all kinds of people experiencing all kinds of difficulties. My special interests include dissociation, problems with eating, the effects of trauma and women's issues.

I qualified in 1990 from the Newcastle upon Tyne Clinical Psychology (M.Sc) course, and
completed a further two year training course in psychodynamic psychotherapy in 1993.
I came to Shropshire in 1995 after working in Teeside for the previous five years.
I am supervised in a fortnightly peer supervision group facilitated by Joe Kiff, Consultant
Clinical Psychologist in Dudley.

Publications
Perrin, A.(1996) The search for meaning in eating distress. Clinical Psychology Forum 92,
24-26
Lewis, V.J. and Perrin A. (eds) (1997) Special Issue: Teaching Ourselves and Others. Clinical Psychology Forum 109.
Perrin A. and Lewis V.J. (1997) Training in counseling skills for eating distress Clinical
Psychology Forum 109, 13-16
Holmes G. and Perrin A. (1997) Countertransference: What is it? What do we do with it? Psychodynamic counselling, 3, 263-267
Perrin A. and Newnes C. (2002) Professional identity and the complexity of therapeutic
relationships, Clinical Psychology 15, 18-22