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About Dr Marsha Taylor

Dr Marsha Taylor is an experienced HCPC registered Chartered Clinical Psychologist and EMDR Consultant Practitioner & Supervisor based in South Devon. She has over 20 years of NHS experience working as a Clinical Psychologist within Adult Mental Health Services. She specialises in assessing and treating the emotional, psychological and behavioural impact of exposure to severe stress and adverse experiences including trauma. Whether exposure has occurred during childhood and adolescence (i.e. developmental trauma which manifests as Complex-PTSD and/or Attachment related conditions)  or whether a single traumatic event has occurred during adulthood which remains unresolved. As an EMDR Consultant Practitioner, she has demonstrated the high standards of competence and expertise set by EMDR Europe, thus ensuring quality & safety in her practice.

Dr Marsha Taylor also adopts a ‘trauma informed’ approach to a broad range of  mental health difficulties with varying degrees of complexity. That is, conditions such as anxiety, depression, disordered eating habits, and some unexplained physical health conditions (just to highlight a few) can be understood as originating from exposure to overwhelming distressing events. Getting to the ‘roots’ of these conditions, as well as the ‘branches’, ensures more long lasting change.

Dr Marsha Taylor is passionate about delivering therapies where there is strong empirical evidence supporting their effectiveness. Her practice offers a choice of some of these approaches. She ensures that therapy is suited to an individual’s needs, is well structured, time efficient and thus cost effective. Formal standardised outcome measures are used as part of her routine clinical practice. Emphasis is placed on identifying strengths of an individual and building resources to optimise and equip them with the psychological tools to continue on their journey towards recovery.