Arabella is a consultant clinical psychologist, psychoanalytic psychotherapist and writer. She studied English Literature at Oxford University, and did her clinical psychology training at University College London and her psychoanalytic psychotherapy training at the Tavistock Clinic. 

Arabella qualified as a clinical psychologist in 1993 and since then has worked in the UK National Health Service (NHS) in adult and forensic mental health services, and in clinical psychology training and psychological staff support. She worked on the University of Leicester clinical psychology training programme for twenty years, coordinating the reflective practice seminar programme. During the covid pandemic she led set-up of the Northamptonshire support hub for health and social care staff, and she is now the East Midlands Reflective Practice Lead.

Arabella’s areas of interest are: psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic process, reflective practice groups in healthcare and beyond, creativity in human services and organisational culture. She has written two books and a number of papers and book reviews. The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy (Viking, 2016) is an exploration of the nature of story-telling in psychotherapy and was written with novelist JM Coetzee. How to Run Reflective Practice Groups: The Heads and Hearts Model for Healthcare Professionals (Routledge, 2020, second edition) is her second book. 

Arabella works both in the NHS and as a freelance psychotherapist, trainer and consultant. She is developing training and support for facilitators of reflective practice groups, using the Heads and Hearts Model.