Sonya Black 

My background…

I have been qualified as a Cognitive Behaviour Therapist for over 12 years. Awarded an MSc in Rational Emotive and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy in 2006 by Goldsmiths College, University of London. I continued my studies with the Institute of Psychiatry and was awarded a Post-Graduate Diploma in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy in 2008. My work since then has been in a leading Private Hospital setting, The Priory and the NHS, (Maudsley Hospital and IAPT). I have worked for a number of years with West Kent MIND, as an Honorary Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist. I am a qualified Mindfulness Teacher, training with the Oxford Mindfulness Centre, in Mindfulness based Cognitive Therapy for Depression (MBCT) and MBCT for Life.