Jay Dudley

Jay is a Psychotherapist, Supervisor, & Group Analyst with many years’ experience working as a Psychotherapist in mental health services in the NHS, and in drug rehabilitation services in West London. He was lead for the Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) Service in Somerset NHS Trust, before moving to Devon to take up work as a Psychotherapist in a Specialist Therapeutic Community within the Personality Disorder Service where he worked for 10 years. Whilst here, he began training as a Group Analyst with the Institute of Group Analysis. He worked as the Professional Lead at The Haldon Specialist Eating Disorder Service before retiring from the NHS.

Jay’s clinical experience and interests include treatment for personality disorders (more recently understood as complex emotional needs); complex trauma and dissociative processes; eating disorders; OCD; anxiety and depression. He works collaboratively, drawing on ideas from CAT, Relational Psychoanalysis, & Group Analysis. He offers both short and long-term individual psychotherapy, Cognitive Analytic Training therapies and supervision.

Having studied Philosophy as an undergraduate, Jay feels drawn to a philosophical and existential appreciation of the nature of our Being and how some of the ideas found there, connect with relational psychoanalytic approaches to our understanding of self, others, and the world.

He teaches on Exeter University’s Doctoral programme of Clinical Psychology, where he also provides Reflective Practice. He is a course moderator for two CAT Practitioner Trainings: Cumbria, Newcastle, Tyne & Weir (CNTW) and Manchester. He is also the moderator of the CAT Foundation training on Liverpool University’s Doctoral programme of Clinical Psychology. He is a tutor on CAT’s UKCP psychotherapy training and recently joined the teaching team for the Foundation in Group Analysis at Group Analysis South West (GASW). He was Chair of ACAT from 2020-2023, and a Trustee until 2024. He remains a member of ACAT’s Ethics Committee.

Availability Individual psychotherapy – Tuesday mornings.

Group Psychotherapy – due 2027

Contact: jaydudley@protonmail.com  Tel: 07807 652052