Dr. Rebecca Ferguson
DHA Psychologist
Dr. Rebecca is a UK-trained Forensic Psychologist, specialising in mental health who has worked in clinical and forensic settings across the UK, Thailand, and Dubai. She has over 13 years of experience working with clients from diverse backgrounds with a range of problems. In Dubai, she has been working with a range of nationalities and enjoys working with these cultural considerations in mind. She has previously worked in community youth teams, secure hospitals, addictions services, and community mental health teams.
Dr. Rebecca works with both adolescents and adults using CBT, EMDR, and DBT models as well as supportive psychotherapy. She has a special interest in personality disorders, trauma and addictions. She uses DBT and EMDR to support through a balance of acceptance, validation, trauma processing and a skills-based approach to enable clients to lead a life worth living.
Treatment Approaches:
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
- EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing)
- Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)
- Reasoning and Rehabilitation
- Mindfulness
- Relapse Prevention
Services offered to Adults:
- Anxiety and panic attacks
- Depression
- Substance Misuse
- Anger Management
- Offending Behaviour/Risk of Offending
- Personality Disorders
Services offered to Adolescents:
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Anger Management
- Self-Esteem
- Assertiveness
- Emerging Personality Disorder
- Disruptive Behaviour
- Substance Abuse
Qualifications and experience
- Doctorate Degree in Forensic Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK
- DBT Intensive Training
- ACT Training
- EMDR Levels 1 -3
- EMDR for Attachment Injuries
- Community Mental Health Team
- Community Youth Team
- Addictions services
- Secure hospitals