Ben Lloyd

I came into this kind of work over 20 years ago, initially through a post in a NHS children's in-patient service; then in a NHS in-patient unit for mothers who were experiencing post-natal depression and psychoses; and also as a co-facilitator of a mother-infant bonding service for mothers who had received custodial sentences.

I then studied for my MSc in Developmental Psychology at the Anna Freud Centre / University College London, and then trained in the NHS as an Association of Child Psychotherapist accredited Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist.

Between 2003-2024 I worked in the NHS at Central and Northwest London NHS Foundation Trust, Leeds Primary Care Trust, Manchester Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Bradford District Care Trust and Leeds and York NHS Foundation Trust.

At Bradford, I was the Consultant Psychological Therapist and Clinical Lead for Psychological Therapies in CAMHS. Amongst many other duties I supervised and trained other practitioners and I developed a specialism of working with adults.

In 2014 I began training as an adult psychoanalytic psychotherapist and became a Registrant of the BPC in 2021.

In 2020 I became Director of NSCAP, a post I held until 2024 when I left the NHS fully. Now, I am no longer a member of the ACP and I work wholly in independent practice with adults under my BPC registration. I have worked in private practice since 2010.

I am approved as a training psychotherapist for people undergoing their own clinical training as psychotherapists on ACP child and adolescent psychotherapy trainings, and for those in training as adult psychotherapists on the Tavistock D58 and D59 clinical trainings. I am also able to offer personal therapy to people whose training in different disciplines i.e. Play and Art Psychotherapy, is a requirement.

I am an experienced clinical supervisor and teacher, and although my practice is one of clinical work, I still occasionally offer teaching to trainee psychotherapists e.g. at the Tavistock where I have taken the Ethics and Private Practice seminars for final year M1 trainees since 2021, work I also enjoy very much.