Dr Caroline Frostick

Caroline qualified as an integrative psychotherapist in 2014 and has a thriving private practice in South London. As well as teaching counselling and psychotherapy to MA level, she also develops and delivers training for health professionals. As a researcher, she has many years experience evaluating the design and implementation of complex mental health interventions.

• Core supervision training (Centre for Supervision and Team Development)
• EMDR training (UK and Europe, parts 1, 2 and 3)
• University of East London  -  PhD by publications 
• University of East London  -  MA Counselling & Psychotherapy (Distinction)

• Psychotherapy private practice (ongoing)
• Training delivery for health professionals in supporting behaviour change (ongoing)
• Lecturer in counselling and psychotherapy at Regent's University (ongoing)
• Research Associate, various projects (ongoing)
• Research Fellow, Institute for Connected Communities, University of East London (2006-2020) (including teaching on MA in Counselling and Psychotherapy)

• Bertotti, M., Frostick, C., Sharpe, D. and Temirov, O. (2020). A two-year evaluation of the Young People Social Prescribing (YPSP) pilot.
• Frostick, C. (2021). Creating Space for Mental Wellbeing: Identifying and Applying Salutogenic Concepts From a Body of Work Representing Two Health Interventions (Doctoral dissertation, University of East London).
• Frostick, C., & Bertotti, M. (2019). The frontline of social prescribing–How do we ensure Link Workers can work safely and effectively within primary care? 
• Frostick, C. & Bertotti, M., 2019. Social prescribing in general practice. British Journal of General Practice (commissioned editorial).
• Frostick, C., Tong, J., Moore, D., Renton, A., & Netuveli, G. (2018). The impact of academies on school connectedness, future aspirations and mental health in adolescents from areas of deprivation in London. Pastoral Care in Education, 36(4), 325-342. 
• Bertotti, M., Frostick, C., Hutt, P., Sohanpal, R., & Carnes, D. (2018). A realist evaluation of social prescribing: an exploration into the context and mechanisms underpinning a pathway linking primary care with the voluntary sector. Primary health care research & development, 1-14.
• Carnes, D., Sohanpal, R., Frostick, C., Hull, S., Mathur, R., Netuveli, G., ... & Bertotti, M. (2017). The impact of a social prescribing service on patients in primary care: a mixed methods evaluation. BMC health services research, 17(1), 835.
• Frostick, C., Watts, P., Netuveli, G., Renton, A., & Moore, D. (2017). Well London: Results of a Community Engagement Approach to Improving Health Among Adolescents from Areas of Deprivation in London. Journal of Community Practice, 25(2), 235-252.
• Frostick, C., Phillips, G., Renton, A., & Moore, D. (2016). The educational and employment   aspirations of adolescents from areas of high deprivation in London. Journal of youth and adolescence, 45(6), 1126-1140.

My primary research interest is the application of salutogenic principles to mental wellbeing, both at an individual therapeutic level, and in the development and implementation of health interventions.

• Supervising student MA dissertations in counselling and psychotherapy. 
• Project managing the evaluation of complex health interventions.

• Accreditation with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
• Founding steering group member of the National Social Prescribing Network

• Development and delivery of skills training for social prescribing link workers and other health professionals (originally commissioned by NHS England).
• Post-graduate teaching in counselling and psychotherapy (including lecturing, clinical and research supervision, skills training and group facilitation).