Marilyn Owens
Clinical Psychologist
S.E. Shropshire CMHT
The Portacabins
Bridgnorth Hospital
Bridgnorth WV16 4EU

I work as a Clinical Psychologist, in a Community Mental Health Team, which is based in Bridgnorth.I work part-time and share this Psychology post and an office with Penny Priest. Together we provide a Clinical Psychology Service to adults (aged 16 to 65) who live in S.E Shropshire.

I studied Psychology (BSc) at Exeter University from 1982 until 1985. I qualified as a Clinical Psychologist (M. Clin. Psychol) from the Liverpool Course in 1987. I then worked in Solihull in the West Midlands within an Adult Mental Health Service. During my time there I developed an interest in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and completed an MSc. in Psychotherapy in 1992. I have continued to draw on Psychodynamic Models to help inform my therapeutic work; my supervision and my ways of thinking about the teams and organizations I work within.

I came to live and work in Shropshire in 1995. This has felt like a homecoming for me, as I was born and brought up on a farm in Herefordshire. Issues around living and working in rural Shropshire are close to my heart.

I have a strong interest in Clinical Supervision. I coordinate the Supervisor's Forum in the Department of Psychological Therapies.

I receive fortnightly Clinical Supervision from Joe Kiff, a Consultant Clinical Psychologist from Dudley.

I was a member of the core planning group for the Trauma Response Team. This was an exciting project which helped me develop my work with staff groups dealing with traumatic events at work. Survival from trauma is often a focus of my work within the Community Mental Health Team.

When I'm not at work I try to keep up with two young sons! I sing in a world music choir and hope some day to sing my way across the Republic of Georgia!