I was quietly chuffed this morning to go into Google Analytics and find that, for the first time, there had been over 5,000 visits to this website in the previous month.  Very small beer compared with commercial sites, but still encouraging numbers.  It's a nice coincidence that the blog went live on 9th October 2008, exactly two years ago.

Dr James Hawkins specializes in both the treatment of psychological difficulties and in helping people enhance their health and wellbeing. James is a medical doctor with extensive training in psychotherapy, and both conventional and complementary medicine. He has also lectured widely to health professionals and the general public on self-help techniques. This broad background of skills means that it is often possible to find ways to help even when a problem has proved resistant to previous attempts at therapy.

personal background

As a child James was fascinated by what made a ‘good’ life. Later he read philosophy, before switching to medicine and graduating from Cambridge as a doctor in 1976. As well as working in hospitals, he trained in various forms of psychotherapy, complementary medicine, meditation and group work. He subsequently qualified in cognitive behaviour therapy, using this as a foundation for his work as an evidence-based therapist.