{"id":471,"date":"2023-11-17T11:42:39","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T11:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/ohspic\/?page_id=471"},"modified":"2025-06-23T13:21:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T12:21:18","slug":"dr-kevin-meares","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/ohspic\/team\/dr-kevin-meares\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Kevin Meares"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Kevin<\/h2>\n<p>Kevin is a consultant clinical psychologist. He completed his doctoral training in clinical psychology in 1997 and his Diploma in cognitive therapy in 2000. He worked within a specialist tertiary level CBT Centre for 21 years where he developed a special interest in PTSD and trauma. More recently he worked in staff wellbeing. Kevin is an experienced supervisor and trainer. Together with Professor Mark Freeston he co-authored the self-help book <a href=\"https:\/\/overcoming.co.uk\/449\/Overcoming-Worry-And-Generalised-Anxiety-Disorder---MearesFreeston\">Overcoming Worry and Generalised Anxiety Disorder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin is an accredited BABCP trainer, supervisor, and therapist. He is also an EMDR Consultant and is part-trained in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy.<\/p>\n<details class=\"nhsuk-details nhsuk-expander\">\n                    <summary class=\"nhsuk-details__summary\">\n                        <span class=\"nhsuk-details__summary-text\">Self-help books<\/span>\n                    <\/summary>\n                    <div class=\"nhsuk-details__text\">\n<ul>\n<li>Meares, K., &amp; Freeston, M. (2015). <em>Overcoming Worry and Generalised Anxiety Disorder <\/em>(2nd edition). London, UK: Little Brown Book Group<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n                <\/details>\n<details class=\"nhsuk-details nhsuk-expander\">\n                    <summary class=\"nhsuk-details__summary\">\n                        <span class=\"nhsuk-details__summary-text\">Media<\/span>\n                    <\/summary>\n                    <div class=\"nhsuk-details__text\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X6N84WcKQMI\">An introduction to worry and anxiety &#8211; CNTW NHS Foundation Trust<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n                <\/details>\n<details class=\"nhsuk-details nhsuk-expander\">\n                    <summary class=\"nhsuk-details__summary\">\n                        <span class=\"nhsuk-details__summary-text\">Research<\/span>\n                    <\/summary>\n                    <div class=\"nhsuk-details__text\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Kevin-Meares\">Kevin Meares (researchgate.net)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n                <\/details>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Kevin Kevin is a consultant clinical psychologist. He completed his doctoral training in clinical psychology in 1997 and his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":520,"featured_media":0,"parent":49,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-staff-profile.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-471","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/ohspic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/ohspic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/ohspic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/ohspic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/ohspic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/ohspic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/ohspic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/471\/revisions\/609"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/ohspic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/ohspic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}