Marilyn Owens
Macmillan Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Specialist Psychological Service in Cancer and Palliative Care
Chaddeslode House, 130 Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury

Tel: 01743 341914

marilyn.owens@sssft.nhs.uk

I work as a Clinical Psychologist in Specialist Psychological Services in Cancer and Palliative Care, providing a county-wide service to cancer patients and their families and carers.

I offer in-patient and community-based services. I have a clinical base at The Hamar Centre Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and at Severn Hospice, Telford

Dr Ita Durkin, Consultant Psychiatrist, provides a day a week clinical input to this service from Severn Hospice, Shrewsbury.

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 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, initially working in adult mental health services. I have worked in cancer and palliative services since 2005, developing services to individuals and their families and carers; staff supervision and training; research and service evaluation projects.

I am currently studying for a Post Qualification Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. As part of this training I am undertaking a qualitative research project on “People’s experience of living with advanced cancer”.

I have a strong interest in “survivorship”, in developing services which support people to live with and beyond their experience of cancer. I have developed the “What Next” group: a six week programme which supports people after they have completed treatment for cancer.