Meet the team

Dr Priya Palmer is an experienced Clinical Psychologist with over 20 years’ experience across the NHS, private practice, and educational settings. Her career reflects a deep commitment to helping people navigate life’s most challenging moments.

She has held senior roles within the NHS alongside working on university training programmes to support the development of trainee Clinical Psychologists. These experiences continue to inform her thoughtful and collaborative approach to therapy.

Her clinical focus centres on trauma, particularly the ways early life experiences shape our relationships with ourselves, others, and the world. She is an EMDR Europe-accredited practitioner and an Internal Family Systems (IFS) trained therapist. Whilst specialising in EMDR and IFS, she also integrates these approaches with other therapies including Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT) Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and Narrative Therapy.

Dr Palmer supports individuals experiencing a wide range of difficulties, including trauma, anxiety, low mood, self-esteem struggles, work-related stress and challenges linked to physical health. Whatever the concern, her approach is rooted in warmth, collaboration and the belief that meaningful change is possible.

She has a special interest in supporting people affected by sport-related trauma—particularly skiing and winter sports. From the emotional impact of accidents or near misses, to phobias around chairlifts or height exposure, she offers a safe, skilled space to process and move forward.

Dr Palmer offers both in-person appointments in Bristol and remote sessions online.

Dr Elizabeth Haycock is an experienced Clinical Psychologist and Cognitive Analytic Psychotherapist, bringing over 20 years’ experience working in healthcare.

She has extensive experience of working in adult mental health services, within both the NHS and private sectors, in inpatient and community settings.

Dr Haycock specialises in supporting adults with a diverse range of emotional, relational, and mental health needs. Her personable therapeutic approach aims to empower individuals to overcome obstacles in their personal and interpersonal lives.

She is well versed in supporting individuals who may need to improve their ability to establish and maintain boundaries, develop greater self-care or assertiveness or who may need to navigate and process experiences of trauma, loss or betrayal. Additionally, she works with individuals facing difficulties in emotion regulation, anxiety, low mood, anger, guilt and self-esteem issues.

Dr Haycock specialises in Cognitive Analytic Therapy and is registered with the Association of Cognitive Analytic Therapy (ACAT). She offers a collaborative space to develop new perspectives and understandings, to help identify constructive paths forward.

Her further training in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and Schema Therapy enables her to incorporate both skills-based techniques for managing intense emotions and enhancing interpersonal effectiveness and to utilize experiential techniques such as chair work and imagery rescripting to process and heal emotional wounds. She also draws on some aspects of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT).

Dr Haycock offers remote therapy sessions with availability on Thursdays and Fridays.

Dr Lucy Coonan is a chartered Clinical Psychologist and certified Coach.

As a Clinical Psychologist, Dr Coonan has experience of working in the NHS and in private practice. Her approach is collaborative and non-judgemental, and she provides a therapy space in which clients feel validated and supported. Dr Coonan focuses on her client’s unique needs, sensitively exploring the challenges and difficulties to develop a compassionate understanding of themselves.

Dr Coonan is passionate about helping her clients to apply therapy techniques and insights to life outside the therapy room. Dr Coonan supports her clients to develop a repertoire of techniques to unhook from the difficult thoughts, emotions, memories and sensations that contribute to unhelpful patterns, and which may hold the client back from engaging fully in life. Through a process of exploration, she helps her clients gain clarity on what matters to them as an individual so that they can also move forwards and build a meaningful and values-aligned life.

Dr Coonan offers one-to-one therapy for adults experiencing a range of difficulties including low mood, anxiety, panic, perfectionism, self-doubt and self-criticism, work-related stress and burnout. Her therapeutic approach draws on several evidence-based therapies including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT), and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).

Dr Coonan offers both in person sessions at the Practice Rooms in Bristol and online therapy sessions.