Doris Magnusen
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About the Therapist
Doris Magnusen is a qualified Mental Health Social Worker and Cognitive Behavioural Therapist with extensive experience across NHS Talking Therapies, CAMHS, local authority mental health services, and independent practice.
Doris works with children, adolescents, and adults, offering structured and evidence-based CBT that is adapted to each client’s communication style, emotional needs, processing preferences, and personal circumstances. She has particular expertise in supporting neurodivergent clients, including people with ADHD, autism, and other neurodivergent profiles.
Her approach is collaborative, formulation-driven, and neurodiversity-affirming. Therapy may be adjusted through changes to pace, language, visual support, session structure, and practical behavioural strategies. Doris aims to help clients better understand their difficulties, reduce emotional overwhelm, strengthen coping skills, and develop approaches that work with rather than against their individual needs.
At a Glance
- Session format: Online
- Client groups: Children, Adolescents, Adults, Families and Carers
- Languages: Please enquire
- Areas of focus: ADHD, Autism, Anxiety, Low Mood, Emotional Regulation, Overwhelm, Executive Function and Neurodivergent Mental Health
- Professional background: Mental Health Social Work and High-Intensity CBT
- Approach: CBT, Adapted CBT and Neurodiversity-Affirming Support
Qualifications
- High-Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Training – Canterbury Christ Church University
- MA Social Work – University of Kent
- MA Public Health – Bournemouth University
- Access to Higher Education covering Psychology, Sociology, Law and Philosophy
Therapy Approach
- Evidence-based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Adapted CBT for ADHD and autistic clients
- Collaborative psychological assessment and formulation
- Neurodiversity-affirming emotional regulation strategies
- Behavioural support for executive-function difficulties
- Adapted pace, language, visual aids and session structure
- Ongoing risk assessment and safeguarding
Client Types
- Children
- Adolescents and Young People
- Adults
- Autistic clients
- Clients with ADHD
- People with other neurodivergent profiles
- Families and carers involved in a client’s support
Mental Health Issues and Areas of Support
- Anxiety and persistent worry
- Low mood and depression-related difficulties
- ADHD-related emotional and functional challenges
- Autism-related distress and support needs
- Emotional regulation difficulties
- Emotional overwhelm and difficulty recognising early emotional cues
- Frustration intolerance
- Shame and negative self-perception
- Executive-function difficulties, including organisation, planning and task initiation
- Difficulties with focus, follow-through and maintaining routines
- Sensory-related distress and overstimulation
- Communication and information-processing differences
- Functional difficulties affecting everyday life
- Complex and non-complex mental health difficulties suitable for CBT
- Coping skills, resilience and emotional wellbeing
Professional Registration
- Qualified Mental Health Social Worker
- Qualified Cognitive Behavioural Therapist
- Experienced within NHS Talking Therapies and CAMHS services
- Professional registration and membership details should be confirmed during onboarding
Professional Experience
- Independent CBT Therapist
- High-Intensity CBT Therapist with Wiltshire Talking Therapies
- CAMHS Therapist with Healios Mental Health Service
- Trainee CBT Therapist with Faversham Counselling Service
- Mental Health Social Worker with Kent County Council
- Experience supporting complex and non-complex mental health presentations
- Experience working with schools, families, carers and multidisciplinary healthcare teams
What to Expect
Doris offers a structured, collaborative, and supportive therapeutic environment where clients can explore their difficulties without judgement. Therapy begins with a careful assessment that considers emotional, cognitive, behavioural, sensory, developmental, and environmental factors.
For neurodivergent clients, sessions may be adapted through clearer language, visual support, additional processing time, practical routines, and changes to the pace and structure of therapy. Doris can also help clients develop strategies for planning, organisation, task initiation, emotional regulation, and reducing overwhelm.
Doris supports anxiety, low mood, ADHD, autism-related challenges, frustration, shame, sensory distress, executive-function difficulties, and wider mental health concerns where CBT is appropriate. Therapy is tailored to the client’s individual needs and may involve collaboration with families, schools, carers, or healthcare professionals where appropriate and consented to.