Dr. Nisha Shah, UK

Short bio
Nisha was an NHS consultant psychiatrist from 2006-2018. She qualified in medicine from Cambridge University and worked in a variety of community and hospital settings, achieving MRCP in 1990. Her psychiatry training began in 1992, she attained MRCPsych in 1998 and she started in her first general adult consultant post in 2006.

She specialized in Perinatal and Psychosexual Psychiatry. In 2010 she set up and developed a small service providing mental health care to pregnant and post-natal women at the Whittington Hospital in North London. After 5 years she moved to lead a much larger service in Waltham Forest and Redbridge (NELFT). Her previous appointments include sessions at the Psychosexual Problems Clinic in Camden with Professor Michael King.

Nisha has extensive teaching experience including supervision of junior and senior psychiatric trainees and mentoring of psychiatric consultants. She has taught health professionals from medical students to midwives, and has been regularly involved in the training of GPs, psychiatrists and psychotherapists.

She is published in a range of areas.

Her interests include the ethics and philosophy of psychiatry (she holds an MA in Philosophy) and she has an Advanced Diploma in Family Focused Interventions and a Diploma in Integrative Psychosexual Therapy (UKAHPP). She combines her medical training and knowledge of pharmacological interventions with a broad understanding of a number of psychotherapeutic approaches including CBT, SFBT, mentalisation, mindfulness, psychodynamic and systemic approaches.

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