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Services offered
Type Individual therapy, medico-legal assessment and therapy, specialist training workshops for Hearing Therapists and Audiologists
Main areas Cognitive behavioural therapy, anxiety disorders, depression, tinnitus, hearing loss, hyperacusis, vestibular rehabilitation, acoustic shock injury
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| Telephone |
07957-956881 |
| Address | The Beardwood Hospital, Preston New Road, Blackburn BB2 7AE |
| Website | www.clitheroetherapies.co.uk |
Hearing Therapy Diploma, LTTC, DHP(NC), MNRHP, MNCSAG, MRCCP
Debbie qualified as a Hearing Therapist in 1994. She has worked as a Hearing Therapist since that time in Essex, Birmingham and Lancashire, currently as Clinical Lead in Hearing Therapy with East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust and as a specialist in private practice that includes medico-legal work. She was invited to take a secondment at the University of Manchester in 2006 where she developed and delivered modules for both the BSc and MSc Audiology in rehabilitation subjects and professional issues including reflective practice and Continuing Professional Development for final year students.
Debbie was trained by the National College of Hypnosis and Psychotherapy and has used her training since 2005 to develop the work she undertakes with people who have tinnitus and/or related hearing disorders.
She has presented nationally at conferences including the RNID National Study Days for Professionals and internationally for the Phonak iLearn platform in a range of subjects including tinnitus management, group work, counselling skills and CBT.
In June 2009, Debbie launched the on-line Tinnitus E-Programme that is benefiting people worldwide who have been struggling with tinnitus distress, and she runs a forum for those undertaking the E-Programme with help from three other Moderators including two other Hearing Therapy/Audiology professionals and one lay-person who has overcome her own tinnitus distress and is now helping others to overcome theirs. The materials used for the E-Programme are based on the Tinnitus Management Group Course that Debbie has developed over fifteen years and delivered for patients in her NHS clinics and the programme meets the Department of Health commissioning pathway requirements for tinnitus management. She is currently writing a Workbook that will partner the Tinnitus E-Programme.