Dr Michael Bloomfield

I'm an award general psychiatrist who works with adults. I am trained both in psychopharmacology (using medication) and in cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT), a type of psychotherapy (talking therapy). I am a Principal Clinical Research Fellow at University College London where I lead a research group. In the NHS I work at the Traumatic Stress Clinic at St Pancras Hospital and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. He regularly lecture locally and I have been invited to lecture internationally. I teaches students in medicine, psychology and the neurosciences, as well as doctors undertaking specialist post-graduate training in psychiatry.

I am particularly interested in treating depression, psychosis and schizoprenia spectrum disorders, post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD) including Complex PTSD and dissociation, anxiety disorders and people who struggle with regulating their own emotions and maintaining stable relationships. I have an interest in neuropsychiatry. I am also interested in helping people who are neurodiverse, have difficulties with attention inlucluding ADHD and people who are on the autistic spectrum.

I lead medical research studies and I have published over 100 articles in leading peer-reviewed journals including Nature, the Lancet Psychiatry, World Psychiatry and the British Medical Journal.

I undertook my medical degree at the University of Oxford, before working in London and the Channel Islands. I previously worked as an air ambulance doctor - which I loved. I went on to train in psychiatry at Charing Cross Hospital and later became a Medical Research Council clinical research fellow at Hammersmith Hospital where I did a PhD in Clinical Medicine. I have built up a wealth of experience in the NHS, including community mental health, acute in-patient psychiatry, treatment-resistant psychosis, severe mental illness, crisis resolution and helping people with personality disorder diagnoses. I have advanced training in enhanced cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). I have a certificate in Psychopharmacology from the British Association for Psychopharmacology. I am an approved clinician under section 12 of the Mental Health Act.

• BA (Hons) Physiological Science- University of Oxford 2002
• BM BCh- University of Oxford 2007
• MA Oxon Natural Sciences- University of Oxford 2009
• MRCPsych- Royal College of Psychiatrists 2014
• PhD Clinical Medicine- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine 2016
• PGCE Medical Education- University College London 2016
• Postgraduate Diploma Cognitive Behavioural Therapy- University of Oxford 2018
• CCST Psychiatry- General Medical Council 2018
• Cert. Certificate Psychopharmacology 2019