About — Ellis Hart
Chartered Psychologist
I am less interested in what you call it than in what it is doing to your week.
Ellis Hart, chartered psychologist. Fifteen years with adults, in Clifton and online across the UK.
Practising
Since 2011
Registered
HCPC & BPS
Works with
Adults 18+
Based
Clifton, Bristol
01 — A note from Ellis
In my own words
Most people apologise for not having a bigger reason.
Most of the people I see have been managing something competently for years, holding down the job, showing up for everyone, and quietly worn out by it. By the time someone calls me they usually apologise for not having a bigger reason. You do not need one.
I trained as a clinical psychologist because I was more interested in what was actually happening to someone than in what to call it. Fifteen years later that has not changed much. A diagnosis is sometimes useful and often beside the point, what matters more is what this is doing to your week, and what you have already tried on your own.
I work in plain language. If I use a term you have not met, ask and I will drop it. Nothing about therapy needs to be mysterious, and a good deal of what makes it work is unglamorous: being listened to carefully, at the same time every week, by someone who is not trying to fix you quickly.
If you are reading this and still not sure, that is the ordinary way to arrive. Fifteen minutes on the phone costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
Ellis
Ellis Hart · Chartered Psychologist · HCPC registered
Nothing you say here will be a shock.
03 — Training and registration
All publicly checkable
Where the training actually came from
Registration numbers are public. You are welcome to look any of this up before you call.
2011
DClinPsy, Clinical Psychology
University of Bristol
2013
Practitioner Psychologist, HCPC registered
Reg. PYL00000
2016
PG Dip, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre
2019
EMDR Europe accredited practitioner
EMDR Association UK
2022
Compassion-Focused Therapy, advanced
Compassionate Mind Foundation
04 — How I work
Four principles
The method matters less than the fit.
These are the four things I will not compromise on, whatever we end up working on together.
01
You are not a diagnosis
We might use a label where it helps get you the right support. We will not treat it as an explanation of you.
Plain language
02
The pace is yours
You decide what gets talked about and when. Nothing gets pushed because a model says week four is when we do it.
Always
03
We review it openly
Every few sessions we check whether this is working. If it is not, I would rather say so than let it quietly run on.
Every few weeks
04
Endings are planned
We finish deliberately, with something you can keep using. Therapy that fades out has usually stopped working already.
Planned, not drifted
First call
Free · 15 minutes
Session
50 minutes
Fee
£85
05 — Questions
Before the first call
Things people ask me first
If yours isn’t here, just ask me on the call.