Lilly Wickham

Lilly Wickham

Clinical Psychotherapist & MIST Practitioner

Lilly has been providing integrated patient-led psychotherapy since 2000.  Over that period of time she has helped, supported and worked with thousands of people whose lives have been affected by relational, situational and childhood trauma, i.e. grief, loss, injury, shock and long-term illness.  She’s an integrative psychotherapist who is interested in how the affective behavioural, cognitive and physiological aspects of us as humans, influences our health and stress pathways.  She has studied many different modalities of intervention and will use one, some, or all of these to help you regain the health status important to your personalised goals.

Currently Lilly is researching how trauma, lifestyle, nutrition and relationships (with self and others) influence epigenetic changes, the expression of disease and how this can change our lifespan.  Her clinical experience is reinforced by her education and ongoing research, particularly any linkage between childhood conception/adversity and adult health conditions, tending to present as psychosomatic illnesses, treatment-resistant’ mood disorders, long-term anxiety or pain, functional neurological disorders (FND), fibromyalgia, breathing and sleep issues.

Having a vested interest in wellbeing, she advocates the basic tenets of longevity, using her knowledge and experience and your life story to improve biological age, in line with your DNA, lifestyle, culture and individual life-plan.

Lilly has developed her own successful model of intervention. M.I.S.T. (‘metaphor informed somatic therapy‘). It is specific to how long-term and resistant health conditions can influence how the sub-structures within the brain and mind, cope with any kind of confusion or lack of resolution i.e. to shock, change, upset and trauma.  It is a mind-body intervention, that combines many different modalities, to reformulate a more healthful narrative and belief system that supports both conscious and unconscious processes within your body and brain. The aim would be to interrupt reactions to stress and upsetting stimuli, ultimately improving, cardiac, gastric, endocrine and emotional responses.

In 2012 Lilly identified the positive impact intensive holistic therapy can offer, creating our integrated mind/body health retreats.  On these, she enjoys spending time with each ‘retreater’ individually and in the classes and workshops she holds.  She ‘walks the talk’ and loves the components of wellbeing, dovetailing them as a philosophy into not only her life, but the lives of those she is privileged to share time with.

She has experienced her own fair share of trauma, upset and childhood difficulties and believes that this (with her own regular supervision, CPD and wellbeing therapy) enables her to connect, care and fully understand how to use her knowledge and experience to its best purpose. To help others.

EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

UP TO 2000

• Accounting & Business Practices – Redlands College – Accreditation – AAT (level 4)
• Human Science (major psychology) – Jo’berg University (SA) – Level – Undergraduate
• Health and Wellbeing (various – including personal training, diet and exercise to music) – Accreditation – FIA
• Training and Development Practitioner – Kingston University.  Accreditation – CIPD. Level 5 (undergraduate)
• 2003 – Complimentary Health Practices – St Clements.  Level – Batchelor of Arts
• 2004 – Hypno-Psychotherapy – National College – London.  Accreditation – UKCP. Level Post Graduate Diploma
• 2005 – Neuro Linguistic Programming – Beeleaf Training.  Accreditation – UKCP – Master Practitioner
• 2008 – Systemic Practices (family & couples) – Birkbeck University.  Accreditation – I.F.T. Level – PostGraduate Diploma
• 2009 – Buteyko Breathing Course  – CPD
• 2010 – Awarded ‘Senior’ status on Hypnotherapy register.  Accreditation – GHSC
• 2011 – Attachment & Neuroscience – Couples Institute (USA).  Level – Post Graduate Certificate.
• 2011 – Motivating Challenging Children – CPD
• 2012 – Systemic and CBT Approaches – CPD
• 2013 – Virtual Gastric Band – CPD
• 2013 – Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR).  Accreditation – EMDR Practitioner – London.
• 2013 – Certificate of Practitioner Proficiency – BACP
• 2014 – Health and Social Care Practices – Derby University.  Level – Professional Doctorate studies
• 2015 – Human Biochemistry and Physiology – CPD.  Level
• 2015 – Brief Solution Focused Therapy – CPD.  Accreditation BRIEF – London
• 2019 – Third Wave Therapies Certification. (including meditation, mindfulness, dialectical & compassion focused therapy).  Accreditation – British Psychological Society
• 2021– Personalised Nutrition – Middlesex University. Level – Post Graduate
• 2021  –  Boosting Immunity – CPD – New Scientist Academy
• 2021 – The Brain – CPD – New Scientist Academy
  2022 – Complex Trauma Training Level 1 & 2 – (CCTP)
• 2022 – Trauma Defined (The Body Keeps the Score) – CPD
• 2023 – Psychometric Profiling – Level A & B/EQi-2/EQi-360 Accreditation – British Psychological Society
• 2023 – Neurofeedback and Biofeedback PGDip – Accreditation BCIA.
  2024 – Accredited practitioner for DNA reports and lifestyle coaching. (various Labs)
• (2010 and ongoing.  Holds various aesthetic qualifications and CPD certification)

Lilly is fully insured & holds memberships with.

• Royal Society of Medicine
• British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy
• Association of Family Therapy
• Complementary & Natural Healthcare Council
• Association of Neurolinguistic Therapy
• Professional Standards Authority
• General Hypnotherapy Register

Lilly also commits to her own twice monthly professional supervision and self-care. Practising meditation, mindfulness, eating whole foods, fasting, breathwork, spinal, neural and body work.
She loves surrounding herself with like-minded people AND enjoying her own company!