Dr. Helen Joannidi

Dr. Helen Joannidi has over 15 years of experience in providing psychological assessment and interventions to a wide range of clients over the course of her career. Dr Helen trained in Bangor, North Wales, and spent the majority of her career in the South West of England near Bristol. Latterly in the UK, she was the Lead Psychologist in a Later Life Community Mental Health service in South Gloucestershire.
Dr Helen has expertise in mindfulness-based interventions, especially Compassion Focused Therapy, as well as carrying out neuropsychological assessments. She has specialised in working with Older People and with people with physical and cognitive difficulties and life-limiting conditions. She has also taught mindfulness to Psychology Doctoral Trainees at the University of Bath, UK.
She is currently employed by Maudsley Health as a Senior Psychologist, leading the Out Patients Psychology Department, ObaidAllah Hospital, where a large part of her work has been with people with a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder. She uses an integrative approach that draws on DBT skills, Compassion work and Schema Therapy.