The Founders

Lewis Psychology CIC is an award winning social enterprise founded by Teresa and Paul Lewis. As social entrepreneurs Teresa and Paul mix business skills with a deep concern for social and economic issues. They are joined by a team of local experts that share the same drive for excellence and professionalism while improving the quality of life for the local community and society at large.

Teresa Lewis, Director

Teresa Lewis is a Senior Accredited Psychotherapist with a Master’s degree in Psychotherapy and more than three decades of continuous clinical practice. Since qualifying in 1995, she has delivered over 30,000 hours of psychotherapy, working at depth with trauma, anxiety, relational distress, and complex psychological presentations.

Her clinical work has centred on one organising principle: integration. Rather than focusing on symptom reduction alone, Teresa’s practice has been devoted to structural change — supporting coherence between mind, brain, body, and relationship. Integrating nervous system science, trauma-informed methodology, and relational psychotherapy, she has consistently worked at the level where lasting change becomes biologically possible.

Alongside her clinical work, Teresa has made a substantial contribution to the education and training of psychotherapists internationally. Her teaching materials and clinical frameworks are embedded within university and postgraduate training curricula across the UK, United States, Australia, and New Zealand — shaping how the next generation of psychotherapists understand nervous system regulation, integration, and clinical decision-making.

Her educational work is used within institutions including The Open University, Boston University, the University of California, the University of Iowa, Massey University (New Zealand), the University at Buffalo, and Aurora University. Her training has also informed professional development and leadership programmes within the United States Department of Defense, the Australian Department of Justice and Safety, and the UK Civil Service.

Teresa is the Founder and Director of Lewis Psychology, Wolverhampton’s only counselling and psychotherapy organisation to achieve Service Accreditation from the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). Under her leadership, the organisation has become nationally recognised for its ethical standards, relational integrity, and psychologically informed service delivery, receiving multiple business awards and professional recognition.

A qualified EMDR practitioner, accredited mindfulness teacher, and registered member of the Association for Coaching (MAC), Teresa was also a founding member of the BACP Coaching Division, contributing to the dialogue between psychotherapy and coaching as interrelated professional disciplines.

Today, Teresa’s work continues through advanced clinical education, supervision, and the development of precise, biologically informed frameworks for therapeutic practice. Her contribution lies not only in the clients she has worked with, but in the clinicians she has trained — and in the standards of integration, timing, and ethical precision she has helped establish within contemporary psychotherapy.

Selected teaching resources are available via her YouTube channel, where she shares trauma-aware, psychologically rigorous education for professionals and the wider public.

Teresa’s  YouTube channel

Paul Lewis, Director

Paul is an Accredited Clinical Hypnotherapist with The National Hypnotherapy Society (MHS Acc) and has been awarded Advanced Practitioner (ADPR) status by the General Hypnotherapy Register (GHR).  As Wolverhampton’s only GHR validated Advanced Hypnotherapy Practitioner, Paul has a substantial breadth and depth of knowledge in many areas of psychotherapy and hypnosis including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Counselling and Neuro Linguistic programming (NLP).

Paul is also a certified Coach having gained full registration status with the respected Association for Coaching (MAC).  Paul has built a reputation as an innovative and creative practitioner working across a broad range of areas that encompass both clinical and non clinical issues. He holds professional qualifications in hypnotherapy in addition to qualifications in NLP, coaching, smoking cessation and counselling. He is a dynamic practitioner and his style is authentic and engaging, with a passion that both motivates and inspires. Paul enables people to understand and action the key factors in achieving and sustaining measurable growth and change. His solution focussed approach to change is informed by the latest neuroscientific research and evidence based Psychology.

As co-director of Lewis Psychology Paul has extensive experience in the field of business development, sales, marketing and management, which proves invaluable in maintaining the company’s high standard of services. Prior to being Director of Lewis Psychology Paul founded and headed a niche psychology company and established a worldwide customer base. He brings much expertise to Lewis Psychology and draws on his business experience to add a commercial edge to the company. Paul has active involvement in the development and delivery of services from conception to evaluation.