Meet the Team
We are all HCPC registered Clinical Psychologists, which gives
assurances that the highest professional standards are delivered.
Dr James Oliver
Director and Principal Clinical Psychologist
James is Co‑Director of Set Point Psychology and an experienced clinician working both within high‑performance sport and NHS mental health services. Holding a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and an MSc in Sport and Exercise Psychology, he brings a rare dual‑trained perspective that bridges elite performance and mental health.
James has extensive experience supporting mental health and wellbeing challenges within elite sporting environments. His previous and current roles span several Premier League football clubs, the national governing body for tennis, professional refereeing organisations, and the UK Sports Institute. As part of the UKSI practitioner network—a select group of psychologists working nationally—he contributes to the mental health provision for Olympic and Paralympic athletes competing within World Class Programmes.
Alongside his work within Premier League football, James supports both adult and adolescent athletes across a wide range of sports on a referral basis. He offers comprehensive psychological assessment, evidence‑based intervention, consultation with coaches, medical teams, and performance staff, and training via workshops. He also provides performance coaching for executives in non-sport settings, and training days designed to strengthen team functioning within high‑performance environments.
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He works with a broad range of mental health and wellbeing challenges, with a special interest in anxiety presentations. His approach draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Compassion‑Focused Therapy, and ACT, alongside a growing specialism in EMDR, and evidence -based approach for trauma, in the context of high performance sport.
James brings lived experience of elite sport, having competed in professional tennis and coached in high‑performance programmes in the UK and Australia. This background gives him an insider’s understanding of the demands, culture, and pressures that shape high‑performance environments.
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Qualifications
Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, Lancaster University
MSc Sport and Exercise Psychology, University of Central Lancashire
BSc Psychology, University of Manchester
Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) Registered (PYL34662)
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Registered with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)
Dr Daniel Reed (Dan)
Director and Clinical Psychologist
Dan is Co-Director of Set Point Psychology and has extensive experience within performance settings including Professional Football, Professional Cycling, Olympic Sports and Paralympic Sports. This experience includes direct psychological assessment and intervention to athletes, and consultation to support staff and training. Dan also offers performance coaching spaces to executives, and training days to support team functioning within high performance environments.
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As a former professional athlete himself, Dan is able to draw upon his own life experiences of being in high performance environments and performing at a world class level. He is a former England table tennis international with over 50 international caps and has won multiple international medals, including at the Commonwealth Games. ​
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Dan works with a variety of mental health and wellbeing challenges with a special interest in anxiety presentations. His work is informed by Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Compassion Focussed Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Neuropsychology.
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Dan is a member of the UK Sports Institute Mental Health Practitioner Network. This is a selected group of psychologist practitioners across the country, supporting Olympic and Paralympic athlete mental health within World Class Programmes. Dan works part-time within a regional NHS paediatric psychology service alongside his independent work.
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Qualifications
Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, University of Manchester
MSc Brain Imaging (Neuropsychology), University of Nottingham
BSc Psychology, Sheffield Hallam University
Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) Registered (PYL042880)
Registered with Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)
Dr Paula Hull
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Paula's experience in mental health services spans more than 25 years. As a current Consultant Clinical Psychologist in a busy NHS CAMHS service, Paula sits in the senior management team, and manages both psychology and psychological therapies for the service.
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Paula offers assessment and treatment for a wide range of behavioural and emotional difficulties for both adults and young people, with a special interest in anxiety challenges, including PTSD, panic disorder, OCD, and specific phobia.
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She is a qualified CBT clinician and trained in EMDR and DBT. She also offers supervision in CBT, and can be commissioned to develop and deliver training across most areas of child and adolescent mental health.
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Qualifications
University of Manchester PG Certificate in supervisory skills for evidence based therapies
University of Manchester PG Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Manchester University Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (D.Clin.Psy.)
Manchester University Diploma in Applied Psychology
Manchester University BSc (Hons) Psychology
Get in Touch
To make an enquiry or book an appointment, please use the form provided.
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​Appointments can be
face-to-face in our clinics in Lymm or Sale, or remote video appointments using Microsoft Teams or Zoom.
Please note our clinicians have limited availability outside of agreed sessions and are therefore NOT in a position to offer crisis support or support to clients with active concerns around risk to self or others.