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Dr Brock Chisholm

Director of Clinical Services

Dr Brock Chisholm is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Director of CAPS. He is the former Clinical Lead of the UK Psychological Trauma Society and former Trustee of Survivors UK.

Dr Brock Chisholm is an extremely knowledgeable Consultant Clinical Psychologist with a degree in Psychology, Masters in Psychological Research Methods and Doctorate of Clinical Psychology who previously been employed in specialist NHS PTSD services and has 20 years of specialist clinical experience.

Dr Chisholm works collaboratively and compassionately, using evidence based psychological interventions such as CBT to assist people in making emotional and behavioural changes and improve well-being.  He cultivates a therapeutic space where people experience being genuinely heard and understood. 

Dr Chisholm has particular expertise in assisting people who have experienced events such as sexual & physical assaults, accidents, bereavements, domestic violence and traumatic childhoods, as well as adjustments to life events such as bullying or relationship difficulties.  Dr Chisholm treats post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, low mood, depression, phobias, and adjustment difficulties and with people experiencing psychosis and the overlap between trauma and psychosis.

Dr Chisholm also has provided expert witness in several high profile cases in the UK and International courts. for criminal and civil matters in Specialist Immigration, and Asylum Court, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court, the European Court of Human Rights, the Baha Mousa Public Inquiry, the African Court of Justice, Military Courts Martial and The United Nations. He has acted in terrorism, police, rendition, serious fraud, trafficking, war crimes, torture, and many other matters nationally and internationally.  In HS (Uganda), R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWCA Civ 94 Lady Justice Rafferty says ‘it seems to me that the authority and depth of Dr Chisholm's report arguably changes the landscape of the appellant's claim.’ 

He was previously retained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) as expert witness in a case litigating against alleged torture at CIA run black sites.