clinical

Is about assessing and treating individuals and groups experiencing psychological difficulties.

Dr Álvarez uses an evidence-based, eclectic, open minded, integrated approach, combining biological, psychological and social therapies to help people resolve issues.

Specialties include: •Stress•Anxiety•Depression•Adult Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)•Trauma•Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)•Phobias•Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) •Grief•Loss•Bereavement•Sleep Problems•Personality Disorders•Psychosis, and others.

Expertise in: General Adult Clinical Psychology•Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)•Long and short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy•Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)•Positive psychology• Exposure Therapy (NET)•Adult ADHD assessment•Individual and group multimodal assessment and treatment•Psychometric testing and evaluation•Applied Relaxation•Stress management•Behavior Modification•Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)•Trauma Focused CBT (TF-CBT)•Mindfulness-based CBT (MF-CBT)•Mental Status Exams•Mental Health Screening

coaching & Supervision

Coaching: Dr Álvarez works with individuals, teams and organisations to enable them to define and achieve success in their personal and/or professional lives.

With a balance of business, operational, and clinical experience at his disposal, his holistic approach helps people make the most of their potential.

Supervision: Is the term that describes the planned, regular periods of time that a supervisor and clinician spend together discussing the clinician’s work with the aim of helping them learn from their experience, develop their expertise and to ensure good service to their clients.

It is a dynamic process that has potential to influence both the supervisor and the practitioner as well as the personal and organisational systems of which they are a part.

speaking & Training

Dr Álvarez delivers several different types of compelling presentations. In his standard keynote, he describes his amazing life as an international hostage negotiator, the techniques used by the most sophisticated negotiators in the world today and how these can be used in everyday life and business.

For audiences looking for more in-depth details about how to manage kidnaps for ransom, crises, specific negotiation or persuasion methods or policy development, Dr Álvarez provides varying lengths of Master Classes.

His firsthand experiences offer a unique insight. He has trained thousands of law enforcement officers and others from all walks of life with an average 98% “Would recommend course to others” rating.

forensic

Is about assessing and treating people who've come into contact with the criminal justice system.

Dr Álvarez delivers: Psychological, forensic, personality, substance abuse, vocational assessment, treatment and management•Crisis and risk assessment, intervention & monitoring•Medico-Legal•Expert •Multi-agency liaison•Case management / treatment planning•Individual & group multimodal treatment.

couples and families

An approved member of the Gottman Institute, Dr Álvarez generally works according to the highly-effective Gottman method (https://www.gottman.com/about/the-gottman-method/) when working with couples and families. This structured, goal-oriented therapy is based on scientific evidence gained from Dr. Gottman’s study of more than 3000 couples showing what actually works to help couples achieve a long-term healthy relationship.

This method helps couples break through barriers to achieve greater understanding, connection and intimacy in their relationships.

hostage, business & other negotiations

It’s a fact of life. We all have to negotiate from time to time.

Dr Álvarez is an internationally recognized authority on hostage negotiations and the psychological impact of kidnap.

The only consultant ever used by both Scotland Yard and NYPD's Hostage Negotiation Teams, he is also a highly experienced negotiations consultant to the Kidnap for Ransom (K&R) insurance industry globally.

He literally wrote the definition of Hostage and Crisis Negotiations, the chapter about The Psychological Impact of Kidnap and the training course for Broadmoor Hospital Hostage Negotiators.

Dr Álvarez can help you negotiate, or with negotiations design, prep, analysis and training to reach your goals with a minimum of fuss, complication and pain so you can worry less about liabilities and concentrate on what you want to.

occupational

Is about assessing and treating issues in the workplace that impede organisational effectiveness such as culture and change, as well as issues at an individual or team level.

• You know what needs to be done.

• Your people know what needs to be done

• So why isn’t it getting done?

Dr Álvarez is an internationally recognized authority on advanced influence, persuasion and change management techniques. He has led numerous international change, culture & learning projects that have delivered millions of pounds of benefits to clients & touched thousands of employees.

Clients include FTSE and Fortune 100 companies, police, military, intelligence and health services of various countries.

ADult adHD assessment & treatment

Distractibility, impulsivity, disorganization, and emotional sensitivity can all result simply from living in the 21st century. But when these symptoms significantly impact the ability to live, work, and enjoy life it’s important to know why.

Lifelong struggles with memory, focus, concentration and relationships might be due to Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

ADHD is real and treatable. Improvement starts with assessment. Dr Álvarez uses state of the art techniques and tools to diagnose ADHD such as QbCheck. This is a 20-minute, computer-based objective test that measures the three ADHD core symptoms; hyperactivity, impulsivity and inattention. Test taker's results are analyzed and compared to those of individuals of the same age and gender, with and without ADHD. This makes it possible, based on objective data, to predict the likelihood of ADHD and provide information that can aid in the evaluation and treatment of ADHD.

Dr Álvarez has established strong working relationships with a number of psychiatrists in private practice with expertise in ADHD for quick referral.

Education

Dr Álvarez enjoys teaching and it shows. He is a guest lecturer at the London School of Economics, London Business School, and Duke Corporate Education where he delivers lectures on organizational change management, negotiations, persuasion, influence and leadership development on the MBA and Executive Education programmes.

Dr Álvarez’ extraordinary depth of experience as a successful hostage negotiator makes him a real-world expert in individual and corporate behaviour change management and in developing leaders with the tolerance for ambiguity, agility and dynamism needed to navigate through the ever-changing challenges of today’s VUCA world.

A charismatic, memorable presenter with outstanding teaching and speaking skills gained through many invited international addresses & media appearances, his fun, dynamic style makes it easy for audiences to describe him as, “Superb! Brilliant speaker, had me hooked; Fantastic, memorable; Very high energy; Inspiring, practical and very helpful; Unique, inspiring and fascinating.”