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Daelin Coutts-Bain

PSYCHOLOGIST

BPsych (Hons), MClin Psych, PhD Candidate

Daelin believes in the importance of creating a warm and safe therapeutic space for people of all ages, gender identities, sexualities, backgrounds, and neurotypes.

He aims to support people to explore their emotions, thoughts, and experiences, while drawing on their unique strengths to face whatever difficulties they may be experiencing.

Daelin offers cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT), whilst integrating elements of other approaches, such as schema therapy, and dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT), to meet the unique needs of each person he is working with. He has also undertaken further training in trauma-focused interventions, such as imagery rescripting and trauma-focused CBT.

Daelin has experience working with adolescents, adults, and families in numerous different settings, including university clinics, psychiatric hospitals, and Child and Youth Mental Health Services (CYMHS/CAMHS).

Daelin is a PhD candidate and researcher at the University of Sydney with expertise in fears of recurrence and progression, that is, worry that one’s physical illness or mental health condition will recur or worsen over time. To date, much of his research has focused on those who worry about a recurrence or progression of depression, mania, psychosis, and anxiety, as well as some physical illnesses, including cancer and endometriosis.

In addition to publishing this work in peer-reviewed journals, Daelin has presented his research at national and international scientific conferences.

He is also an affiliate of the University of Glasgow where he collaborates on research projects related to psychosis and trichotillomania (repetitive hair pulling).

Daelin offers appointments to people aged 14 years or older on Wednesdays.

Treatment Areas

  • Anxiety, including death anxiety, health anxiety, social anxiety, and phobias

  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

  • Depression

  • Trauma and post-traumatic stress

  • Unusual sensory and perceptual experiences, including hearing voices, and dissociation (e.g., depersonalisation and derealisation)

Publications

  • Patel, D., Webster, S. N., Dowling, E. J., Knowles, C. R., Lockwood-Taylor, T., Coutts-Bain, D., Simons, L. E., Diver, E., Chilcot, J., Schapira, L., &; Heathcote, L. (2024). Scanxiety and Fear of Recurrence in Young Adult Female Breast and Gynaecological Cancer Survivors: Investigating Shared Mechanisms. Accepted at Psycho-Oncology.

  • Menzies, R., Coutts-Bain, D., Richmond, B., &; Helgadottir, F. D. (2024). Protocol for a Randomised Controlled Trial of Overcome Death Anxiety: An Online Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Intervention in a Clinical Sample. Accepted at Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy.

  • Pickup, B., Coutts-Bain, D., Todd, J. (2024). Fear of Progression, Depression, and Sleep Difficulties in People Experiencing Endometriosis-related Pain: A Cross-sectional Study. Journal of Psychosomatic Research.

  • Menzies, R., Richmond, B., Sharpe, L., Skeggs, A., Liu, J., & Coutts-Bain, D. (2024). The “Revolving Door” of Mental Illness: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review of Current Versus Lifetime Rates of Psychological Disorders. British Journal of Clinical Psychology. 1-19.

  • Heathcote, L., Webster, S., Loecher, N., Spunt, S., Pamela, S., Pradhan, P., Coutts-Bain, D., Sharpe, L., Tutelman, P., & Simons, L. (2023). The Bodily Threat Monitoring Scale: Development and Preliminary Validation in Adult and Childhood Cancer Survivors. Psycho-Oncology, 1-10.

  • Coutts-Bain, D., Sharpe, L., Techakesari, P., Forrester, M., Hunt, C. (2023). A Mixed-Methods Review and Meta-synthesis of Fears of Recurrence and Progression in People with Mental Health Conditions. Clinical Psychology Review, 105, 102342.

  • Coutts-Bain, D., Sharpe, L., & Russell, H. (2023) Death Anxiety Predicts Fear of Cancer Recurrence and Progression in Ovarian Cancer Patients Over and Above other Cognitive Factors. Journal of Behavioral Medicine. 1-9.

  • Todd, J., Pickup, B., Coutts-Bain, D. (2023). Fear of Progression, Imagery, Interpretation Bias and their Relationship with Endometriosis Pain. Pain. 2839-2844.

  • Todd, J., Coutts-Bain, D., Wilson, E.,; Clarke, P. (2023). Is Attentional Bias Variability Causally Implicated in Emotional Vulnerability? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 105069.

  • Todd, J., Wilson, E., Coutts-Bain, D., & Clarke, P. J. (2022). Attentional Bias Variability and its Association with Psychological and Health Symptoms: A meta-analysis. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 104812.

  • Coutts‐Bain, D., Sharpe, L., Pradhan, P., Russell, H., Heathcote, L. C., & Costa, D. (2022). Are fear of cancer recurrence and fear of progression equivalent constructs?. Psycho‐Oncology, 31(8), 1381-1389.

  • Pradhan, P., Sharpe, L., Butow, P., Coutts-Bain, D., & Heathcote, L. C. (2022). Does interpretation bias moderate the relationship between pain and fear of cancer recurrence?. Health Psychology.