Dr James is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with 15 years of NHS clinical experience across a broad range of settings, from community clinics and mental health services to hospitals and a specialist Sleep Medicine service.

He believes that good therapy should be empowering, focused, meaningful and effective, and built upon the strong foundation of an excellent therapeutic relationship.

His flexible and integrative approach draws from a number of psychological models to create a truly personalised therapy experience.

Dr James trained with the British Psychological Society (BPS) to become a psychology expert witness, including undertaking training for court appearances.

He can provide medico-legal assessments within 14 days from instruction and submit the report within 10-14 days following that, although it is usually considerably sooner.

He can provide information on the number of previous cases and anonymised example reports from previous cases if required.

Dr. James is a registered provider for leading private healthcare providers including AXA, Aviva, Bupa, Cigna, Vitality and WPA. He has a number of specialisms, including post-accident/injury psychological trauma, workplace stress, anxiety-based conditions, low self-esteem and insomnia.

Dr James is experienced in Medicolegal assessment and report writing for Civil Court proceedings (e.g. personal and workplace injury, RTAs) as well as CICA (Criminal Injury) and employee wellbeing assessments.

Dr James has completed in full the BPS Expert Witness Training programme and is an expert panel member for numerous leading MROs.

He regularly provides training events and consultation to other professionals and is an Honorary Lecturer at Cardiff University on the South Wales Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology.

Dr James is incredibly passionate about supervision and consultation and is on the BPS approved supervisor register, is BABCP accredited in CBT supervision and has a PG qualification in supervision.

He regularly provides supervision training to NHS staff. More recently, Dr. James has been trained in CBT for Insomnia (CBT-I) by leading experts in the field and has been mentored by an Expert Somnologist within a specialist sleep centre.