James is Medical Director of The Grove and practises as a Consultant Psychiatrist, both in private practice and in an NHS role. James is a general adult psychiatrist with considerable experience working with the full range of mental health problems encountered in adulthood.
Much of his work centres on teaching his patients how to regulate their emotions in order to manage their inner worlds. He has founded Regulate, The Grove’s training course on emotional regulation, in collating the best technology and most effective approaches to spread the practice of these effective techniques.
As a trained integrative psychotherapist, he has an interest in, and many years of experience using, body-focussed interventions when working with emotional dysregulation and psychological trauma. Amongst other approaches he is trained in hypnotherapy (Diploma), EMDR (Adv) and EFT (Adv). James has also done some basic training in nutrition, believing this to be critical for optimal mental wellbeing.
James is a respected clinician both within and outside the NHS. One of his main areas of specialist expertise is Adult ADHD. He works in one of the very few London-based specialist Adult ADHD services in the NHS. He is on the Executive Board of UKAAN (the main professional organisation for Adult ADHD in the UK) and is UKAAN’s Training Programme Director. The comprehensive training programme UKAAN offers is highly regarded in the UK and further afield.
James studied medicine in Nottingham and trained in psychiatry with the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (Guys and St Thomas’ hospitals) and at St Mary’s Hospital.