About Us

Dr Purves specialises in helping people overcome panic, anxiety, depression and stress. There are well understood tools and techniques you can use to help yourself recover from panic, anxiety, depression and stress. The simple fact is that you do not need to suffer from these problems. If that is a goal that is of interest, then you do need to do something constructive. There is no 'magic' quick fix. But there is a well trodden path you can follow and which will reliably take you out of panic, anxiety, depression and stress.

Dr Purves has spent over 20 years developing tools that have helped thousands of people both in the NHS and in private practice in the UK. 

 A bit of bio

Dr David Purves is a Consultant Chartered Counselling Psychologist, a qualified psychotherapist, and an accredited CBT therapist he is also a Chartered Scientist. Dr Purves was previously Course Director for the London Metropolitan University Doctorate program in Counselling Psychology.

He was formally Head of the Berkshire NHS Traumatic Stress Service, based in Reading. He is now principle and Clinical Director of the Berkshire Psychology Service.

His academic qualifications include a first class degree in Psychology from Lancaster University and a D.Phil in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford and a MSc in cognitive behaviour therapy from LMU. Dr Purves has published a number of academic articles, and contributed to books on the training of therapists. He has talked nationally and internationally on subjects related to Trauma, PTSD and computerszed cognitive behaviour therapy.

He is also frequently asked by the media for interviews and acts as an expert psychologist recommended by the British Psychological Society on matters of disaster and trauma. He is also an expert witness to the courts on matters of trauma and PTSD.