My Approach

Colleen's main therapeutic model is psychodynamic but she is also an EMDR Europe Accredited Practitioner (eye movement desensitisation) for trauma and PTSD as well as for longer term/early childhood issues (Attachment Focused EMDR) . In addition, she is experienced in internal Family Systems. She also offers clinical supervision.
PLEASE NOTE THAT I AM CURRENTLY OFFERING ONLINE THERAPY ONLY.

About Me

Colleen Heenan (PhD, MSc Psychotherapy, BA Hons, RMN) has worked in Bradford and Leeds since the 1980s. She has considerable experience in working with a range of difficulties: for example, depression & anxiety, eating disorders, relationship problems and traumatic stress disorders. She is an HCPC registered practitioner and can see people through BUPA, AXAPPP, Aviva and Simply Health.
Colleen was a psychiatric nurse before studying psychology & sociology at the University of Leeds followed by post-graduate training in psychotherapy theory, practice and research at the University of Warwick. She was a co-founder of the Leeds Women's Counselling and Therapy Service, worked in an NHS Eating Disorder Clinic in Salford and was a Supervisor at Bradford RELATE.
From 2001-2010 Colleen was a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Bolton . Her research and PhD explored the subject of women and eating problems plus eating disorders therapy. In July 2009 she completed a 3 year NHS clinical research project (REC Reference No: 05/Q1201/54) with obese women to make and maintain a significant weight loss, along with improving their eating behaviour and self-esteem. Colleen has contributed to texts and journals on these subjects and has edited a number of special features in the journal Feminism and Psychology. She is co-editor (with Bruna Seu) of Feminism and Psychotherapy: Reflections on Contemporary Theories and Practices (Sage, 1998). She is also co-author of two books (with Erica Burman et al) - Challenging Women: Psychology's Exclusions, Feminist Possibilities (Open University Press, 1996) and Psychology, Discourse, Practice: From Regulation to Resistance (Taylor and Francis, 1996).

I work with

• Couples
• Individuals
• Private healthcare referrals

Special Interests

Like all UKCP registered psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors I can work with a wide range of issues, but here are some areas in which I have a special interest or additional experience.

Types of Therapies Offered

• Psychodynamic Psychotherapist

What I can help with

• Abuse
• Adoption
• Age-related Issues
• Anger Management
• Anorexia
• Anxiety
• Bereavement
• Bulimia
• Bullying
• Cancer
• Chronic Illness
• Cultural Issues
• Depression
• Disability
• Domestic Violence
• Eating Disorders
• EMDR
• Employment Difficulties
• Gender
• Health-related Issues
• Identity Problems
• Infertility
• Mental Health Issues
• Obsessions
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Phobias
• Physical Abuse
• Post-Traumatic Stress
• Race Issues
• Relationships
• Sex Problems
• Sexual Abuse
• Sexuality
• Stress
• Supervision
• Trauma