Alex Wilson

Alex Wilson is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker, DBT therapist, Clinical Director, trainer and educator with more than 20 years’ experience in mental health. She specialises in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), mindfulness, complex trauma, borderline personality disorder (BPD), and emotional dysregulation. Her career has included specialist public mental health services, private practice, developing and delivering comprehensive DBT programs, and training and supervising mental health professionals. At the heart of Alex’s teaching is a simple belief- people can only change if they are taught new skills. Her approach to mindfulness is practical and grounded- teaching people how to be with difficult and uncomfortable emotional states. 'Befriending' difficult emotional states in order to reduce reactivity to them. Alex is passionate about making complex psychological ideas clear, relatable and useful in everyday life. Her teachings explore mindfulness, DBT skills, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, trauma, relationships and resilience. Her style is warm, practical and straightforward, helping people develop a deeper and more compassionate understanding of themselves.

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