Season 1 Episode 6 - Stress & IBS With Dr Sula Windgassen

**Dr Sula Windgassen, PhD, MSc, PgDip.**

Health psychologist, Chartered Psychologist, Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (CBT) therapist, and mindfulness practitioner.

This week’s guest is Dr Sula Windgassen! Make sure to tune in next week for another special guest.

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Sula is a Chartered Psychologist & CBT therapist, registered with the Health Care Professional Council (HCPC), the British Psychological Society (BPS), and the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy (BABCP). Sula currently works in the NHS as a High Intensity CBT therapist.

Sula has a PhD in Psychological Medicine, which focused on the therapeutic mechanisms of CBT in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Sula’s PhD thesis was based on data from the largest randomised controlled trial of CBT for IBS to date, and the results are published in the British Medical Journal & The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology. Sula is involved in research currently involving women’s health & the application of psychosocial support to improve symptoms & quality of life.

In this episode we speak about:

💫 How physical health conditions present mental symptoms

💫 The placebo and the nocebo effect

💫 How our perceptions have a physiological response

💫 What actually is IBS?

💫 Biopsychosocial factors in IBS

💫 The digestive system

💫 How under fuelling affects the digestive health

💫 How anxiety & stress around food impacts bowel function ft gluten

💫 Symptom focusing

💫 How to identify deep concerns about symptoms & Sula’s starting tips to explore these

💫 Stress-management tools & mindfulness

💫 Why self-kindness is important for helping suffering

Season 1 Episode 6 - Stress & IBS With Dr Sula Windgassen

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