Frances Cole & Helen Macdonald

Biography:

Frances Cole is part time GP in Huddersfield and trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy at Newcastle CT Centre in 1993-4. In 1996, she started the first UK multidisciplinary primary care pain rehabilitation service in Bradford based on CBT. She leads this service and works in clinical health psychology at Bradford Teaching Hospitals using CBT in a wide range of mental and physical health problems. Since 1999 she has run a range of workshops and training courses for primary care trusts in the UK for health care practitioners in CBT techniques for both chronic pain and long term health condition self management and mental health,. She is a co-author of a CBT self help guide ‘Overcoming Chronic Pain’, part of the CBT based self help guides published by Constable Robinson.

Helen Macdonald is a full time Cognitive-Behavioural Psychotherapist, accredited since 1994; and with a Masters’ degree in Cognitive-Behavioural Psychotherapy from the University of Derby. She is also Registered Nurse (Mental Health) and a Chartered Health Psychologist. She specialises in mental health, persistent pain, long term health conditions and return to work. She has been teaching in various health care settings since 1983; supervising other therapists since 1992 and has a broad range of experience with people who have mental and physical health problems. She is also co-author of the CBT self help guide, ’Overcoming Chronic Pain’, part of the CBT based ‘Overcoming’ series published by Constable Robinson.

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