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About Holly
I believe that our earliest relationships and childhood experiences play an important role in shaping how we understand ourselves, relate to others, and respond to the world around us throughout our lives. These early experiences can influence patterns of thinking, feeling and relating, which at times may lead to emotional or psychological difficulties.
My work is strongly informed by an interest in attachment and early emotional development, particularly the relationship between infants and their primary caregivers. I work alongside caregivers and their children to support secure, nurturing relationships, helping children to develop emotional understanding, resilience and a sense of safety within their relationships. Therapy is collaborative and tailored to each family, with a focus on strengthening connection and emotional wellbeing.
Work with Teenagers, Adults and Neurodivergent Individuals
Alongside this work, I am passionate about supporting teenagers and adults who would like to improve their emotional and psychological wellbeing. I recognise how early experiences can continue to influence us as we grow, while also working in the present to help individuals develop greater understanding, coping strategies and confidence in themselves and their relationships.
I have a particular passion and special interest in working with neurodivergent individuals, including autistic people and those with ADHD. My approach is neurodiversity-affirming, respectful and strengths-based, recognising and valuing individual differences while supporting emotional wellbeing and everyday challenges.
Professional Experience and Background
I have over 15 years of experience working within psychological services, including roles within CAMHS both in the UK and internationally, as well as experience across inpatient and outpatient settings. I have a strong interest in the neurological and psychological development of children and young people, and I work closely with families to support healthy emotional and psychological development as children grow and change.
Areas Holly Can Support:
- Anxiety and anxiety-related difficulties
- ADHD
- Autism
- Neurodevelopmental differences
- Attachment-related difficulties
- Depression and low mood
- Anger and emotional regulation difficulties
- Stress and adjustment difficulties
- Relationship difficulties
- Trauma, including acute stress, PTSD and complex trauma
- Eating difficulties
- Sleep difficulties
- Personality-related difficulties
Professional Organization Memberships
- Registered Practitioner Psychologist, Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC).
- Registered Clinical Psychologist, Health Professionals Council of South Africa (HPCSA)
- Completed Level 1 and 2 training at The Theraplay Institute™
- Qualified Facilitator Circle of Security International™
Additional Training
- Introduction to Parent-Infant Psychotherapy
An Introduction to Parent-Infant Psychotherapy is a once-a-week, 8-week training course that provides mental health professionals with an introduction to infant and perinatal mental health theory. It examines critical aspects of perinatal and infant mental health including the parent-infant relationship, attachment theory and infant development. The course includes learning to observe interactions between caregivers and infants. It explores the earliest precursors of disordered attachment. Finally, it introduces the process of intervention by working with the relationship between mothers, fathers and their infants.
- DBT for Practitioners
The DBT framework is presented and offers patients a “toolbox” of effective skills to tolerate feelings and decrease self-sabotaging behaviours. The skills also attempt to help provide a structure for individual practitioners to respond to challenging behaviour.
- Circle of Security Parenting: An Attachment-based Parenting Guidance Workshop
This is a 4-day training course through Circle of Security International – an early intervention for parents and children. Over 4 days, this seminar trains professionals to use an eight-chapter DVD to educate caregivers. The aim is to increase parents’ awareness of their children’s needs, and their responsiveness to these needs. The programme presents video examples of secure and problematic parent/child interaction in the zero to five age range, healthy options in caregiving, and animated graphics designed to clarify principles central to Circle of Security. Circle of Security – Parenting (COS-P) is grounded in attachment theory, object relations theory, family systems theory, and affective neuroscience.
- Level One Theraplay & Marschak Interaction Method (MIM) Skills development
Level One training prepares participants to begin using Theraplay Informed Practice in their work. Theraplay is a pioneering application of attachment theory to clinical work, helping parents learn and practice how to provide playful engagement, empathic responsiveness and clear guidance that lead to secure attachment.
About Ruvimbo
Ruvimbo is a qualified CBT therapist and mental health nurse with over 10 years of experience working within mental health services. She has extensive experience supporting children, young people, families and adults, and has worked across a range of NHS mental health settings, supporting individuals with diverse and often complex needs.
Ruvimbo works from the belief that therapy is most effective when it feels safe, collaborative and responsive to the individual. Her approach is grounded in evidence-based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), while remaining flexible and tailored to each person’s strengths, needs and stage of life. She places great importance on building a trusting therapeutic relationship, working at a pace that feels manageable and supportive.
She has experience working with neurodivergent individuals, including autistic people and people with ADHD, and is thoughtful in adapting therapy to different ways of thinking, processing and communicating. Ruvimbo works in a neurodiversity-affirming and strengths-based way, recognising individual differences and supporting emotional wellbeing in a respectful and meaningful manner.
When working with children and young people, Ruvimbo also draws on her training in Behavioural Family Therapy (BFT). She values working collaboratively with families, helping to strengthen understanding, communication and emotional connection, and supporting caregivers to feel more confident and supported in their role.
Areas of Support and Specialisms
Ruvimbo works with a range of emotional and psychological difficulties, including anxiety disorders, depression and low mood, stress, phobias, emotional regulation difficulties, adjustment to life changes, and the psychological impact of long-term health conditions. She has particular experience working with individuals living with long-term health conditions and medically unexplained symptoms (MUS), supporting the complex interplay between physical health and emotional wellbeing in a compassionate and integrated way. Her background as a mental health nurse, alongside her therapy training, provides her with a strong understanding of complex presentations, risk, and the wider systems that can influence mental wellbeing.
Therapy is delivered in a culturally responsive and inclusive way, recognising the importance of identity, culture and lived experience in shaping how distress is understood and expressed.
A thoughtful, compassionate and evidence-based approach underpins all aspects of Ruvimbo’s work, supporting individuals and families to develop greater understanding, coping strategies and confidence as they navigate challenges and change.
Ruvimbo offers therapy both in person and online, supporting clients in a way that feels accessible, flexible and responsive to their needs.
Areas Ruvimbo can support:
- Anxiety disorders, including generalised anxiety, social anxiety and panic
- Low mood and depression
- Stress and burnout
- Phobias and specific fears
- Health anxiety
- Emotional regulation difficulties
- Worry and rumination
- Adjustment to life changes and transitions
- Self-esteem and confidence difficulties
- Sleep difficulties and insomnia
- Trauma-related symptoms (where CBT is clinically appropriate)
- Psychological impact of long-term health conditions
- Difficulties related to neurodivergence, including autism and ADHD
CBT is adapted developmentally and neurodiversity-affirmingly when working with children, young people and neurodivergent clients.
Practice Manager
Hannah is the Practice Manager for HVR Psychology and works closely with Holly in taking care of the practice. Hannah has over 10 years’ of experience in healthcare administration and operations. She has helped set up and manage several private practices for consultants and clinicians, worked on large-scale hospital projects and operationally managed private patient inpatient and outpatient units in both the private sector and the NHS.
