Dr Graham Kidd


Consultant Profile

Name: Dr Graham Kidd

Languages: N/A

Specialties: General Adult Psychiatry

Special clinical interests: Psychological Trauma

Research Interests: PTSD, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing

Current NHS and/or university posts: visiting lecturer at St George’s CBT Course

Year of first medical qualification: 1970

Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies: BMA, RCPsych. MDU, RSM, EMDR-UK, ISSDT, BABCP.

Contact details: gtbkidd@aol.com or Cardinal Clinic on 01753 869755

Availability: Clinics at Cardinal Clinic on Tuesdays, at Woking on Mondays and Wednesdays, Roehampton on Fridays.

Background Information

Professional profile:

Dr Kidd trained at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and having spent 3 years as RMO to the Gurkhas, trained in psychiatry at St Thomas’s Hospital.Retired in 2006 after 20 years as Consultant Psychiatrist in Old Age and General Adult Psychiatry at The Abraham Cowley Unit, Chertsey, where he was a trainer in CBT. He continues to lecture in this and his main area of interest which is Psychological Trauma in all its aspects and consequences(PTSD, grief, depression, phobias, OCD, somatisation, addictions etc) and its treatment with CBT, hypnotherapy and, in particular, Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), an established and effective treatment for PTSD.