Dr Natalie Cawley
Dr Natalie Cawley is a psychotherapist and counselling psychologist with a BSc, MSc and PsychD in psychology and has worked and trained in both the NHS and private practice, within paediatric and adult services.
Instagram: nataliecawleyauthor
Website: nataliecawley.com
Biography
'Profound and piercing. Cawley has a likeable, self-deprecating tone. Her interventions are compassionate and often creative. The disclosures are as diverse as they are diverting...’
- Helen Davies, The Times
Dr Natalie Cawley is a Psychotherapist and Counselling Psychologist with a BSc, MSc and PsychD in Psychology and has worked and trained in both the NHS and private practice, within paediatric and adult services. Her experience covers a wide range of health conditions and clinical presentations in the community and within psychiatric hospitals. Her specialism in attachment theory, the driving force behind our psychological and emotional functioning, informs all her therapeutic work.
Her hobbies include stand-up comedy – mostly watching, although she has performed a set about bad dates that went better than expected. She lives and works in Manchester and can be contacted via www.nataliecawley.com , Just About Coping is her first book.
Books
At the psychologist’s clinic of an NHS hospital, Noah needs help with procrastination, Bill compulsively lies, Steph is coping with rejection and their therapist, Dr Natalie Cawley, is dealing with her own emotional crisis, breathing into a paper bag between patient sessions.
In this honest, often poignant and frequently funny memoir about training to be a psychotherapist, we meet the patients grappling with mental health issues, from OCD and addiction to self-deception and toxic relationships, and see how Dr Natalie helps them understand and change these attempts to self-sooth.
Full of lightbulb moments, Just About Coping is a journey into our inner worlds, where the drama of our break-ups, breakdowns and breakthroughs takes place. In times of stress and suffering, Dr Natalie reveals, we are all just about coping. None of us is immune - not even your therapist.
Just About Coping by Natalie Cawley was published in hardback, ebook and audiobook in July 2024.
Praise for Just About Coping
'I've been raving about this, I absolutely loved it. Like an Adam Kay for psychotherapy, Dr Natalie Cawley opens up the closed world of therapy so well, with humour, honesty, and fascinating insights' - Frankie Boyle, comedian
'I loved this witty, insightful journey into the world of psychotherapy. It made me consider some of my reactions in quite a different light' - Raynor Winn (author of the 90- week Sunday Times Bestseller The Salt Path)
'I felt less mad and more understood just from reading it' - Vogue Williams
'Profound and piercing. Cawley has a likeable, self-deprecating tone. Her interventions are compassionate and often creative. The disclosures are as diverse as they are diverting...’ - Helen Davies, The Times today
Rights contacts Foreign language: Picador, Pan Macmillan PublishersNorth American rights:
Graham Maw Christie TV and film rights: Meg Davis meg@ki-agency.co.uk
A short video about Just About Coping:
Stompcast
Listen to Dr Natalie Cawley on Stompcast, joining Dr Alex George for an in-depth conversation about therapy, coping mechanisms and anxiety.