Profile for
Debbie Featherstone
Diploma in Hearing Therapy, DHP(NC), MNRHP, MNCSAG, MRCCP
Member of CBH Network (Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy Network)
Debbie Featherstone has been Head of Hearing Therapy Services in East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust from 2001 to 2010, with responsibility for specialist rehabilitative service provision for tinnitus, hyperacusis, and hearing loss.She is a qualified and registered Psychotherapist, Hypnotherapist and Hearing Therapy practitioner,and specialises in the delivery of therapy for tinnitus, hearing loss, hyperacusis, acoustic shock injury, anxiety disorders including OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder), PTSD (Post Trauma Stress Disorder), GAD (General Anxiety Disorder) and depression.
Following her 17 year career as a Hearing Therapist in the NHS, she has taken early retirement from the NHS (28 May 2010) to pursue her interests in greater depth - specifically in helping those with distressing tinnitus and also to undertake more in depth work with people who have depression and/or anxiety disorders than her role in the NHS was able to allow.
Debbie is currently studying towards an MSc in Psychotherapy with the University of Sheffield.
