Dr Li-Faye Lim
Li-Faye is a clinical psychologist with 12 years of experience providing psychological therapies to adults, older adults, young people and their parents, carers and family members. She is currently employed as a Clinical Psychologist within the NHS alongside her private practice.
Li-Faye provides a safe, non-judgemental space. Her warmth and compassion will help you feel at ease. She embraces all differences, especially having worked in different parts of the world with different cultures and beliefs. Li-Faye also has a good understanding of the particular stresses of corporate working life, having changed careers to psychology after 5 years in various business and finance roles in a major multi-national corporation in London. As a parent, she has lived experience of the particular challenges and stressors faced by both full-time parents and working parents. She is also experienced in supporting parents and carers in her work in the NHS.
Li-Faye is trained in a wide variety of therapeutic models, including Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Systemic and Family Therapy, Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT), Compassion Focussed Therapy (CFT) and mindfulness-based approaches. This allows her to quickly understand problems and help clients to make sense of their experiences and work towards their personal therapy goals.
Her current research publications are:
Lim, L. F., Solmi, M., & Cortese, S. (2021). Association between anxiety and hypertension in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 131, 96-119. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S014976342100381X
Veale, D., Lim, L. F., Nathan, S. L., & Gledhill, L. J. (2016). Sensitivity to change in the Obsessive Compulsive Inventory: Comparing the standard and revised versions in two cohorts of different severity. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 9, 16-23. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2211364916300045