Mwansa Curtis

I am passionate about working in mental health and I am person centred when working with clients. I work collaboratively to find a solution to the presenting issues and my approach is compassionate, empathic, sensitive and warm.

I practice Carl Roger’s core conditions mainly showing, congruence, unconditional positive regard, being real and genuine and showing accurate empathic understanding. I have vast experience in delivering culturally appropriate therapy to a diverse group of people.

As a cognitive behavioural therapist and eye movement desensitisation and processing (EMDR) therapist, I treat conditions including depression, anxiety, phobias, sleep problems, complicated grief, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), addictions, pain relief, phantom limb pain, and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).

Position at Priory

Mwansa joined Priory in April 2020 as a cognitive behavioural therapist (CBT) at Priory Hospital Chelmsford. Since then she has trained and is a qualified EMDR therapist. As part of the outpatient therapy team, Mwansa is involved in running groups such as introduction to CBT, depression and anxiety, as well as seeing patients for one-to-one treatment sessions. She also runs the inpatient CBT- basics and anxiety group.

Training

• Postgraduate diploma in IAPT CBT - high intensity training
  Graduated from Royal Holloway University in 2019
• Talking Therapies NELFT Barking & Dagenham NHS Trust
  Advanced diploma in CSCT humanistic therapeutic counselling programme from South East Essex Collage
• Terrance Higgins Trust Sexual Health Charity London - emotional support counsellor, delivering culturally appropriate counselling to the Black Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME)
• Accredited, registered member of the British Association for counselling and psychotherapy (BACP)
• Accredited registered member of British Association for behavioural and cognitive psychotherapies (BABCP)
  Qualified EMDR therapist - Academy Europe Accredited Training
• Enrolled with The Compassionate Mind Foundation to train in compassionate focused therapy

Languages

• English
• Bemba
• Chinyanja

• IAPT CBT – high intensity training – Postgraduate/Diploma
• CSCT humanistic therapeutic counselling programme – Advanced diploma
• Eye movement desensitisation and processing (EMDR)
• Accredited, registered member of British Association counselling psychotherapies  (BACP)
• Accredited, registered member of British Association for behavioural and cognitive psychotherapies (BABCP)