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Gareth Hickman
Psychology
Profile
Dr. Gareth Hickman
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Dr Gareth Hickman is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist based in the West Midlands (Stourbridge and Solihull areas). Gareth offers evidence based psychological therapy for all adults but particularly specialising in men’s mental health and emotional difficulties.
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Gareth is a registered Chartered Clinical Psychologist with over 20 years of experience working in the NHS
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If you are seeking psychological support, either for a single session consultation or longer-term therapy you can make contact here.
Qualifications
2011 - Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (DClinPsy), University of Birmingham
2007 – Master of research in Clinical Psychology (MRes), University of Birmingham
2003 – Bachelor of Science (BSc Hons) in Psychology, Cardiff University
How can I help you?
Services
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Cognitive Therapy
Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) is a form of cognitive-behavioural therapy. It is based on the idea that emotional and behavioural problems arise not from external events themselves, but from the unhelpful beliefs individuals hold about those events. REBT helps people identify, challenge, and replace these unhelpful beliefs with more rational, constructive thoughts, leading to healthier emotions and behaviours.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Intensive Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) is a form of therapy that aims to quickly uncover and resolve unconscious emotional conflicts that contribute to psychological symptoms. ISTDP focuses on helping people experience and process repressed emotions—often related to early attachment trauma—by identifying and working through defence mechanisms, anxiety, and unconscious guilt. The therapist actively challenges defences and encourages emotional breakthroughs to promote lasting change in a relatively short period of time.
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Schema TherapySchema Therapy
is an integrative psychotherapy developed, combining elements of cognitive-behavioural therapy, attachment theory, psychodynamic concepts, and emotion-focused techniques. It focuses on identifying and changing deeply rooted patterns or "schemas"—enduring negative beliefs and behaviours formed in childhood that affect how people see themselves and others. The therapy helps individuals recognise maladaptive schemas, understand how they developed, and adopt healthier ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving through techniques like imagery rescripting, limited reparenting, and cognitive restructuring.
Single session therapy
Single-session therapy (SST) is therapy that lasts for one session. SST is not so much a therapeutic approach as a framework, a single, solution focused, proactive psychological consultation targeted at making maximum change or setting the course for change in one therapeutic encounter
Pubblications
Si accettano le principali assicurazioni sanitarie
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Tearle. S., & Hickman, G. (2025). Transitional experiences of men with intellectual disabilities and offending histories who have resettled in the community from secure settings. Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities. https://doi.org/10.1108/AMHID-10-2024-0043
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Hickman, G., Kooner, G., & Redwood, J. (2025). Reflections on introducing a carer's forum in an intellectual disability secure service. Forensic Update, (1)147, 11-17
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Hickman, G., & Morris, A. (2022). A pilot study assessing initial psychometric properties of ‘The Risk Insight scale’. Journal of Forensic Practice.
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Hickman, G., & Morris, A. (2022). Evaluation of an inpatient sex offender treatment programme for men with Intellectual Disabilities. Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour, 13, 3/4, 77-89 https://doi://10.1108/JIDOB-04-2022-0004
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Thompson, J., Boden, ZVR., Newton, E., Hickman, G., & Larkin, M. (2019). The experiences of inpatient nursing staff caring for young people with early psychosis. Journal of Research in Nursing.
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Hickman, G., Thrift, S., Taylor, C. (2018). Case study illustrations of a psychological treatment pathway in a secure intellectual disability service. Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour, https://doi.org/10.1108/JIDOB-02-2018-0002
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Hickman, G., Booth, N., Hoang, T. (2018). Reflections on introducing a Leavers’ Preparation Group in an intellectual disability secure service. Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour, https://doi.org/10.1108/JIDOB-12-2017-0026
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Hickman, G., Thrift, S., Dhaliwal, R., & Taylor, C. (2017). Sixteen years of the Brooklands Thinking Skills Offender Programme. Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour, 8, 3, 132-143
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Hickman, G., Newton, E., Fenton, K., Thompson, J., Boden, ZVR & Larkin, M. (2015). The experiential impact of hospitalisation: parents' accounts of caring for young people with early psychosis. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, doi: 10.1177/1359104515581716
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Fenton, K., Larkin, M., Boden, ZVR, Thompson, J., Hickman, G., & Newton, E. (2014). The experiential impact of hospitalisation in early psychosis: Service-user accounts of inpatient environments. Health and Place, 30, 234-241.
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Hickman, G., & Crawford-Docherty, A. (2010). Ward C: A formulation-based service development project. PSIGE Newsletter, British Psychological Society, 112, 46-54