Hello.
I’m Caroline Marlow. I’m a Chartered Psychologist who specialises in helping people to understand pain so that they can reduce it for themselves and others.
My Approach
Everyone’s experience of injury and pain is very personal, as are their reasons why recovery is so important.
With my unique knowledge and skill set, I use a combination of pain education and research-supported mind and body approaches: I can also work alongside other health professionals.
It is a privilege to help every one of my clients understand their injury and pain, and to make sense of its causes and to find the solutions that will work best.
My Experience and Qualifications
I’ve enjoyed 25+ years as a consultant, university lecturer, and researcher, and have specialised in injury and pain psychology for 5 years.
- British Psychological Society (BPS) Chartered Practitioner Psychologist (Sport & Exercise Psychology).
- HCPC practitioner registration.
- Trained in ‘Explain Pain’ and ‘Graded Motor Imagery’.
- Highly experienced in developing and delivering 1-2-1 support and educational packages.
- Approved mental health provider for numerous health insurance companies.
- PhD: Fitness and mental skills training behaviour change within elite sport.
- BSc (Hons) Sport Science.
My Passion for Injury and Pain Psychology …
Started early in my career whilst working with athletes (professional/international to recreational). I saw how it affected their: daily lives; fitness, sport and life confidence; dreams, opportunities and careers; and mental health.
This, my reflections of injury ending my own sporting life in my early 20s, and of back and neck pain in my 40s, inspired me to find solutions that worked.
Although I appreciated the effect of injury and pain on our mental health, when I learnt how our brains and emotions affect physical recovery and pain it was a ‘game-changer’, as indeed, it is now for my clients.
Welcome to the Future …
Throughout my career, I’ve seen how the ‘mental side of sport’ has gone from obscurity, to mainstream: Indeed, many elite athletes attribute optimal performance to the mind – sport psychs are now well accepted.
Likewise, an extensive body of research now clearly shows how the brain affects the body’s recovery from injury and our experience of pain.
I’m excited that the latest pain science gives a new and real opportunity to understand injury, pain and recovery, and to use psychology to make a real difference.
Using the mind-body link to help recovery will become the ‘go to’ of the future. I’m delighted to be able to offer it now, to help you and others recover.
Can I Help You? Let’s Talk.