Highlights

Anna Drescher is a freelance writer specializing in mental health and psychology.

Professional Experience

• Freelance writer and copyeditor (2021-Present): Research; content, blog and script writing; ghostwriting; editing
• Private solution-focused hypnotherapist/ therapist (2017-Present): Working with individuals with mental health difficulties using techniques from solution-focused hypnotherapy, mindfulness, yoga/ meditation and cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT)
• Assistant Clinical Psychologist at Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust (2020-2021): Engaging therapeutically with men diagnosed with personality disorders at HMP Swaleside. Leading on audits and assisting in the design and implementation of a research project on the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway
• Recovery Officer, Richmond Fellowship Queensland (2018-2019): Supporting the recovery of individuals with severe and enduring mental health conditions in in-patient and community care
• Co-production and User Involvement Manager, H&F Mind (2016-2017): Implementing and developing H&F Mind’s co-production and user involvement project across two London boroughs
• Community Recovery Worker, Hestia (2015-2016): Supporting the recovery of individuals through managing and facilitating activity groups in the community
• Mental Health Assistant, Alpha Hospital (2014): Supporting patients detained under the Mental Health Act (1987) in a psychiatric low-secure hospital

Education

• Professional copyeditor: Chartered Institute for Editing and Proofreading (2022-Present)
• Master of Mental Health/ Psychotherapy (Distinction): University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (2018-2020)
• Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy and Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma: The Clifton Practice, Bristol, England (2016-2017)
• Teacher of Yoga: International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre, Uttarkashi, India (2016)
• Bachelor of Science Psychology (first-class honors): Goldsmiths University of London, England (2011-2014)

Publications