Michelle Cree
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Michelle Cree

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Michelle Cree is a consultant clinical psychologist who worked for 17 years in the Derbyshire Perinatal Mental Health Service. Here she pioneered the use of both individual and group Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) for the perinatal population. She also pioneered a 12 week CFT course for staff across the Derbyshire Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust- the first such CFT course for staff and one which was awarded second place at the National Positive Practice in Mental Health Awards. She adapted this from the work of Professor Paul Gilbert as a way of treating the high self-criticism that often sat behind the “mental illness” that new mothers referred to the service were suffering with. The approach also helped those struggling to bond with their baby. She became a national and international trainer and supervisor in CFT and the Compassionate Mind Approach and is author of The Compassionate Mind Approach to Postnatal Depression: Using Compassion Focussed Therapy to enhance Mood, Confidence and Bonding. This became the first perinatal mental health book to be selected for the Reading Well list (previously Books on Prescription scheme). This means that it is held in every library in England and Wales and can be ‘prescribed’ by GPs and other professionals. It has now been made into an audiobook which includes all 43 guided mindfulness practices which can be used alongside both this book and her latest book (see below). She has now completed the New Motherhood Workbook: Developing a compassionate mind for you, your baby and your family (Compassion Focused Therapy), published in May 2025 and a “Compassionate Mind Approach Handbook: for parents of young children and the people who support them”. The latter was commissioned by the Birmingham and Solihull NHS Foundation Trust to support their aim of “embedding the Compassion Mind Approach across the whole of Birmingham to the parents, children and those who work with them”.
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