Associate Consultant
Dr Maggie Stanton is a Chartered Psychologist and member of the Division of Clinical Psychology with the British Psychological Society. She is also an Accredited Therapist and Supervisor with the Society for Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT). As Psychological Therapies Lead, for many years Maggie headed a team of psychologists and psychological therapists in a large NHS trust.
More recently, she has focused on teaching and supervising professionals from a range of backgrounds. In 35 years of mental health clinical work, she has specialised in seeing clients with a range of difficulties. Maggie has lectured and supervised at post graduate level including on the DClinPsych course at the University of Birmingham, the DClinPsych and Post Graduate Diploma CBT at the University of Southampton and the Post Graduate Diploma in DBT at the University of Bangor. For 10 years she was a Senior Trainer with British Isles DBT Training.
Maggie has been involved in a range of research including being Clinical Lead in a large multi-centred randomised control trial (RCT) for Treatment Resistant Depression. She has published her work in journals, books and at conferences, including two books on teaching and using mindfulness skills, and has been an invited speaker both nationally and internationally. Maggie was a Director of the UK and Ireland Society for DBT and was a member of the Expert Reference Group, which developed the Self-Harm & Suicide Prevention Competence Framework for the NCCMH.
