Resources & Useful Links

  • If you are concerned that you cannot keep yourself or your child safe right now, call 999 immediately or go to your nearest A&E Department if you can.

    If you can keep yourself safe for now, but are experiencing feelings of despair or a mental health crisis, it is important to seek clinical help as soon as possible. You can:

    • Contact your GP during open hours and ask for an emergency appointment – but check if their opening and response times are a length of time you can wait;

    • Call 111 at any time and select the mental health option. 

    If you need to talk to someone, you might also find it helpful to:

    The mental health charity Mind also provides an online Crisis Coping Skills guide here: Need urgent help | Mind - Mind

    As an independent practice and sole trader, I am unable to provide emergency/crisis response through Kernel Psychology.

  • Clinical Psychologists in the UK are registered as “Practitioner Psychologists” with the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC).

    You can check the professional registration for Dr Hazel Rayner – or any other UK Practitioner Psychologist – with the HCPC here: Check the Register and find a registered health and care professional

  • Mind: The mental health charity Mind campaigns for better treatment and support for people with mental health difficulties and provides information on different types of mental health problems here: Types of mental health problems - Mind   

    NICE: You can read look up the current NICE (National Institute for Health & Care Excellence) guidelines for health conditions including mental health conditions here: Find guidance | NICE

  • If you would like to know more about this rapidly-developing area of practice, you might find some of the following resources of interest.

    The “NHS Forest”: NHS Forest is a project run by independent charity the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare working alongside a range of UK healthcare sites to provide access to green spaces for health, wellbeing and biodiversity benefit. You can find out more about this project including some of the health benefits of access to green spaces here: What is the NHS Forest? 

    The project is also building a database of evidence relating to the health and wellbeing benefits of nature: (link here: Evidence Archive - NHS Forest)

  • Professor Paul Gilbert was one of the founders of the Compassionate Mind Foundation (Compassionate Mind Foundation) and author of:

    The Compassionate Mind – A New Approach to Life’s Challenges, by Paul Gilbert, (Robinson, London, 2009)

    www.compassionatemind.co.uk

    Deborah Lee, a co-founder of the Compassionate Mind Foundation, has worked to develop Compassion-Focused Therapy approaches to Trauma. You can read more about this approach in the self-help book:

    Recovering from Trauma using Compassion Focused Therapy, by Deborah Lee and Sophie James (Robinson, London, 2012).

  • This section is a work in progress which I hope to add to as the Kernel Psychology website develops.

    Quoted eco-psychology references

    Eva Sahlin (2022), Experiencing Existential Dimensions in Nature-Based Rehabilitation. In Jordan, M. & Hinds, J, Ecotherapy – Theory, Research & Practice. London: Bloomsbury. 

    M. Amos Clifford (2021), Your Guide to Forest Bathing – Experience the Healing Power of Nature. Newburyport Massachusetts: Red Wheel Weiser. 

    Dr Qing Li (2018), Into the Forest – How trees can help you find Health and Happiness. London: Penguin Random House. 

    Information and resources relating to “Third Wave” CBT (see also Compassion-Focused Therapy resources) 

    John Teasdale pursued extensive cognitive science research into how CBT affects our relationships with – and the relationships between – our thoughts, moods and emotions and was one of the founders of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy.

    Examples of his and his colleagues’ writing are:

    • Affect, Cognition & Change – Remodelling Depressive Thought, by John D. Teasdale & Philip J. Barnard (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hove, 1993).

    This above is a deeply academic book which explores the detail of original research which now underpins Third Wave CBT approaches including Mindfulness-Based CBT.

    • The Mindful Way through Depression – Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness, by Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal & Jon Kabat-Zinn (Guilford Press, Hove, 2007) (also available as an audiobook from Sounds True).

    The above is a self-help book introducing Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and Mindfulness practices (including recordings on CD). A newer edition is shortly to be released.