Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones

Biography

MRCPsych, BA(Hons), DOccMed.

Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones is a Consultant Psychiatrist working in both the NHS and private practice. She is a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

In her private work she is both a general adult  ( Depression, Anxiety, Work-Related Stress, Relationship difficulties ) and addictions (All addictions ) psychiatrist at the Capio Nightingale Hospital in London. Her consulting rooms are in Chelsea and in Lisson Grove within the hospital.

She has a national role in the addictions field being an elected member of the Addictions Faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

She is the Faculty of Occupational Medicine link to the Royal College of Psychiatrists and has contributed the addictions psychiatry input to national guidelines.

Henrietta works extensively with Human Resources and Occupational Health in assessing, treating and helping patients return to work following periods of treatment in hospital. She teaches employers about stress, depression and substance misuse in employees. She has worked with many of the top companies in the UK on these issues and has a Diploma in Occupational Medicine from the Faculty of Occupational Medicine in London.

A further interest is the treatment of Pathological Gambling. She is the Lead Consultant for Problem Gambling for Central North West London NHS Foundation Trust and Joint Lead Consultant for the Gambling Addiction Services at the Capio Nightingale Hospital. She has lectured extensively on the subject and has recently set up the CNWL National Problem Gambling Clinic, the first NHS treatment centre for pathological gamblers. The clinic is based in Soho, London.

In her charity work she is a Trustee of Sporting Chance Clinic, a high profile addiction charity that helps top sportsmen and women in the UK in their fight against drugs, alcohol and gambling.

Her research with Imperial College is in the area of the neurobiology of alcohol. She has worked on orbito-frontal cortex impairment as a predictor of early relapse in alcohol dependency.