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Sharif El-Leithy

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Sharif El-Leithy

Job Title Consultant Clinical Psychologist at Traumatic Stress Service
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Dr Sharif El-Leithy is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and clinical lead of the Traumatic Stress Service, London.  He specialises in psychological reactions to life-threatening traumas and was a member of the NICE (2018) PTSD guideline update committee.  He has over 20 years of experience in using cognitive-behavioural therapy to treat PTSD arising from complex traumatic experiences, including victims of war, torture, domestic and childhood abuse. He is co-author of the clinical handbook, “Working with complexity in PTSD: a cognitive therapy approach”, Routledge (2022).