Dr Frank Ryan, Consultant Clinincal Psychologist
Frank is an accredited cognitive behavioural therapist (CBT) with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies. He worked as a consultant clinical psychologist in the National Health Service until 2019, and served as Chair of the Faculty of Addiction, British Psychological Society in 2008-10 and 2019-2021. He is also the author of Cognitive Therapy for Addiction: Motivation and Change (2013) and Willpower for Dummies (2014).
Frank is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College, South Kensington, a Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Applied Sciences, London South Bank University, and a Clinical Tutor at the Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London. Frank is also a contributing author to Evaluating the Brain Disease Model of Addiction (2022) and Breaking Free: How to Stop Gambling (2022).
Frank studied applied psychology at University College Cork and then trained as a clinical psychologist at the University of Edinburgh.
He is committed to evidence-based practice delivered in an empathetic and compassionate context, including conditions such as perfectionism, health anxiety (hypochondria), and smoking cessation.
Specialisms
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
Depression
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Addiction (problem gambling)
Willpower/self-confidence
General Anxiety Disorder
Panic disorder
Anger management
Social anxiety