Comfort Shields at Box Tree Clinic

I like the independence of being able to fully direct my efforts into helping others.

I am a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society, a graduate of Oxford University, Fielding Graduate University (APA Accredited, California), and completed clinical training in psychological diagnostics at Yale Medical Centre. Clinical psychology training in the United States is more extensive in the Unites States than in the U.K.. It is very comprehensive and prepares psychologists to be psychotherapists, diagnosticians, as well as researchers and teachers.

I am a published author, have published peer reviewed articles in leading psychology journals, and presented research at the American Psychological Association's national convention. I have completed extensive original research on complex bereavement, attachment, and temporality and was awarded the Creative Longevity and Wisdom Fellowship from the Institute for Social Innovation.

My philosophy is that although most human beings experience difficult periods in their lives, it is not the difficult periods themselves that make people who they are; but rather it is what people make of the difficult periods that defines individuals. Clients are best able to work through painful experiences when they receive emotional validation and empathy from their therapists through the process of therapeutic alliance.