Some of our Senior Consultant Therapists
We offer a range of mental health professionals at each of our clinics. These include the following senior mental health specialists. In addition, all consultants have qualified in Brief Strategic Therapy with the Brief Strategic Therapy Foundation in London.

Dr Lucy Atcheson
Dr Lucy Atcheson BSc. (Hons) MSc. Psych.D., C. Psychol is an accredited brief strategic therapist as well as a counselling psychologist, and a coaching psychologist. Dr Lucy has seven years of experience working as a psychologist, five of these have been working in independent practice. She is also a qualified as a critical incident stress management practitioner since 2003. Dr Lucy runs her own practice in Harley Street, London. Lucy has written two books: Dr Lucy Atcheson's Guide to Perfect Relationships, and Free Yourself From Fear (both published by Hay House). Lucy specialises in working with panic disorders and has done a BBC program on overcoming phobias. www.counsellingpsychologistlondon.com

In addition, Dr Lucy is a regular contributor on the radio and in the national press, she has also made several television appearances.

Mr Andy McCann
Andy is a leading Brief Strategic Therapist. He is an internationally published author with Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London (specialists in Social and Behavioural Science). His work has been acclaimed in the UK national press and medical journals and he was nominated for the prestigious Glen Dimplex Writers’ Award, 2006 (non-fiction category). He has also been commissioned to contribute a series of wellbeing pieces in the Times (Educational Supplement) and is regularly engaged in an advisory capacity to national organisations on behavioural problems and appears in the national media.

Andy is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and is a member of the Vocational Rehabilitation Association. 

Andy runs clinics at Cyncoed Consulting Rooms, Cardiff where he specialises in stress management and is used as an expert in Medico Legal cases.

Dave Costello
Dave Costello BA(Hons)DipCOT DCHyp ACertCSHyp has been an Occupational Therapist for 18 years, and worked in a variety of clinical areas in mental health in the NHS for 14 years. He came to specialise in vocational rehabilitation and job retention case management, devising methods in which services could become more focused around assisting and supporting individuals with mental health issues back into work.

Dave continued this work in Wales, taking up the post of lead clinician for the Equal Programme Healthy Minds at Work. This programme explored methods in which stress and mild to moderate mental health conditions could be better addressed in the workplace. Dave devised a ‘Health and Wellbeing Facilitator Training’ course, which has since been adopted by a number of public sector organisations in Wales. He is also a guest lecturer on the Occupational Therapy Degree Programme at the University of West of England.

In recent years Dave has designed and delivered Condition Management Programmes for Depression for Pathways to Work, as well as providing rehabilitation and case management to the Insurance industry, supporting and enabling individuals to return to work following illness or injury.

Dave is an accredited Brief Strategic Therapist and practices clinical hypnotherapy in both Cardiff and Bristol.