Dr Christian Perrin
Chartered Psychologist | Founder & Director
Christian works with OCD, anxiety and intrusive thoughts, using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and evidence-based approaches to anxiety and OCD.
Dr Christian Perrin is a British Chartered Psychologist, Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS), Psychotherapist, and Professor of Psychology, with extensive experience across forensic and clinical contexts. He is licensed as a Psychologist with Dubai's Community Development Authority (CDA). Christian's clinical specialisms include OCD, anxiety, intrusive thoughts, health anxiety, self-esteem, identity, and relationship difficulties. His therapeutic approach is principally informed by Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), alongside existential psychotherapy and evidence-based approaches to anxiety and OCD. He has completed extensive Continuing Professional Development in Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), an evidence-based psychological treatment for OCD.
Alongside his clinical practice, Christian contributes significantly to the MSc Clinical Psychology programme at the University of Birmingham Dubai. He has made a notable contribution to psychological research, publishing numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in internationally recognised outlets. His research spans mental health, psychological intervention, identity, stigma, behaviour change, and forensic psychology. He is the author of Making Meaning in Prison, based on his extensive research within UK prisons.
Clinical Expertise
OCD & Intrusive Thoughts
Working with obsessive thoughts, compulsions, reassurance-seeking, avoidance, uncertainty, and the often less visible presentations of OCD, drawing on ACT and ERP.
Anxiety & Health Anxiety
Support for persistent worry, rumination, panic, health-related fears, and anxiety that has begun to restrict everyday life.
Existential Psychotherapy
Exploring questions of identity, purpose, self-worth, life direction, and the psychological difficulties that can emerge throughout the life course.
Relationships & Couples
Individual and couples work exploring communication, attachment, recurring relationship patterns, intimacy, and significant relationship difficulties.
Qualifications & Professional Credentials
- PhD in Psychology | MSc Psychology | BA Hons Criminology
- Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow, British Psychological Society
- Licensed Psychologist, Community Development Authority (CDA), Dubai
- Professor of Psychology (MSc Clinical Psychology) University of Birmingham Dubai
- Author: Making Meaning in Prison
- Published author across peer-reviewed international journals and academic books
- Extensive Professional Development in Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and existential psychotherapy
Therapy & assessment
Twelve services, in the clinic in Jumeirah Lakes Towers. If you are not sure which one fits, the first call is where that gets worked out.
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