Staff Profile

Profile

• Clinical Director & Deputy Programme Director, Doctorate in Clinical Psychology Programme
• Clinical Psychologist (MSc ClinPsy, 1992)
• Registered member of the Health and Care Professions Council
• Chartered member of the British Psychology Society
• Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (accredited by the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy) 
• Associate fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Qualifications 

• 2004: Postgraduate Diploma in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (awarded with distinction), Durham University.
• 1992: MSc Clinical Psychology, Leeds University.
• 1988: BA (Hons) Psychology (2:1)

Background

I am a clinical psychologist and CBT practitioner with more than 25 years' experience of working in mental health services, across primary, secondary and tertiary care settings. I am trained in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behaviour therapy (DBT), and was involved in setting up one of the first UK DBT services in 1998 for Leeds NHS Foundation Trust. I moved to Newcastle University in 2008 to join the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology team and also took on the role of  assistant course director on the Low Intensity Psychological Therapies programme, which I was involved in setting up.

In my current role, as clinical director and deputy programme director on the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology Programme, I am responsible for the strategic overview of all clinical aspects of the training, including managing placements, clinical assessments and providing training for clinical supervisors. I also lead on the CBT teaching stream. I am the disability lead for the Programme, overseeing the support we offer for trainees with long term health conditions and disabilities. I do my clinical work in the Newcastle University Psychological Therapies Training and Research Clinic, an award winning service provided for students with mental health difficulties, which I helped to establish in 2018.

My main interests are around CBT for depression and anxiety. I have helped to supervise a number of large scales research projects in these areas.

I am also interested in looking at the impact of disability on trainees and clinicians, and the obstacles this presents in getting fair access to training and employment. 

My main areas of interest are Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for GAD, panic disorder and depression.

• Papworth M, Marrinan T. Low Intensity Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: A Practitioner's Guide (2nd Edition). Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington DC, Melbourne: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2018.
• Papworth M, Marrinan T, Martin B, Keegan D, Chaddock A. Low Intensity Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy: A Practitioner's Guide. Sage. SAGE, 2013.
• Marrinan T, Milne D. Learning to supervise whilst a supervisee. Clinical Psychology Forum 2011, 222, 20-25.
• Milne D, Marrinan T, Ormrod J. Supervision of older adult placements in one region: Perspectives of three clinical tutors. PSIGE newsletter 2010, (112).
• Bentall R, Wood G, Marrinan T, Deans C, Edwards R. A brief mental fatigue questionnaire. British Journal of Clinical Psychology 1993, 32.