Psychologists and Psychotherapists

Dr Sharon Chambers is a Counselling Psychologist (HCPC registered) and chartered member of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and has worked across a wide range of NHS community, outpatient and inpatient settings. She completed doctoral clinical training at the University of Surrey and CBT training at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) at Kings College London.

Dr Chambers is an anxiety disorders specialist, employed at the Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma (CADAT) at the Maudsley Hospital, South London & Maudsley NHS Trust until retiring from NHS in 2025. CADAT is a leader in research, training and the clinical treatment of anxiety and cognitive behaviour therapy in the UK. She led the CADAT Perinatal Team (CADAT-PAX) assessing and treating anxiety disorders during pregnancy and the post-natal period, and parents with children up to 3 years old. She was also a clinical-trial therapist on the Adept Research Trial at CADAT and KCL working with pregnant women with anxiety disorders. At CADAT, she saw local referrals and national referrals from across the UK for anxiety disorders, including for birth-related PTSD, maternal OCD, health anxiety, maternal generalised anxiety, panic, and fear of childbirth/ tokophobia; she contributed to the Maudsley NHS Trust’s development of their working with fear of childbirth guide. Dr Chambers previously worked at CADAT’s Outreach Trauma Service, commissioned by NHS England assessing and treating UK people suffering with PTSD from recent terrorist attacks, and where she also provided clinical supervision to other treating psychologists around the UK.

Dr Chambers was previously a senior counselling psychologist in IAPT for ten years, where she was both the perinatal lead and a team leader and also co-led on long-term physical health conditions and mindfulness groups and provided couple’s therapy. As part of a Maudsley project, she also provided support to the Ebola Crises humanitarian workers. As a qualified psychologist she has also previously worked in a secondary care Older Adults CMHT, and with older adult army veterans with PTSD. In the NHS, she was a NHS clinical supervisor for clinical & counselling psychologists, CBT therapists and trainees for 20 years, and continues to work as a clinical supervisor on KCL’s PGDiP in CBT training course. She also taught on clinical training courses at London universities (UCL & KCL). She continues to work clinically in private practice, including providing clinical supervision.

Dr Chambers is trained in a range of psychotherapeutic approaches including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Eye Movement, Desensitisation & Re-Processing Therapy (EMDR) for PTSD and is fully accredited by both the BABCP and the EMDR-UK associations. She is also trained in Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), and Acceptance, Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Behavioural Couples Therapy (BCT). Her specialist clinical interests continue in PTSD/trauma, anxiety disorders, menopause, perinatal and older adults. She is an active member of Sloane Court’s Clinical Women’s Mental Health Specialist Interest Group.

Dr Chambers’ earlier clinical experience includes working as a Registered General Nurse in an intensive care unit, cardiac, gynaecology and obstetrics, gastro-enterology, respiratory, and then as a Registered Health Visitor working with perinatal women and parents with babies / young children.