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Dr Anne Waters

 

Role

Consultant Clinical Psychologist

Qualifications

DClin Psychol., CPsychol

Dr Waters studied Clinical Psychology and the University of Leeds, qualifying in 1993.

Initially specialising in Adult Mental Health, she went on to develop a special interest in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Health Psychology. This latter interest led to her first consultant appointment at St Mary’s Hospital, Portsmouth in 2004. Following six years specialising in Pain Medicine at St Mary’s, she joined the Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust, Chronic Pain Management team in January 2010.

Dr Waters’ role in the pain team includes service development and staff training and education in the psychological and emotional aspects of living with chronic pain. She provides direct clinical work with people who live with chronic pain, (both individual and group work), focussing on helping patients with emotional distress and adjustment to living with pain, and helping them to improve their quality of life through re-engaging with meaningful and important activities and relationships. Guiding and educating people in aspects of self-management is an integral part of this work.

Dr Waters holds a full time NHS appointment with the BNHH. She is also an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Southampton, where she previously worked as a Clinical Tutor on the Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology. She is a member of the British Psychological Society, the Health Professions Council, the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapists and the British Pain Society. She delivers regular training workshops for medical and allied health professions and interested members of the public. She is also involved in research into the psychological, emotional and adjustment aspects of living with chronic pain.

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