DR HENRIETTA BOWDEN-JONES

MRCPsych, BA (Hons), DOccMed.

Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones is a consultant psychiatrist working in the field of substance misuse in both NHS and private practice. In her private practice, she works as a general and addictions adult psychiatrist at the Capio Nightingale Hospital in London.  

Within the NHS, she is the lead consultant for Problem Gambling for Central North West London Mental Health FoundationTrust.

In 2008, she founded the CNWL National Problem Gambling Clinic, the first NHS multidisciplinary treatment centre for problem gamblers which has been inundated by new referrals since its opening. The clinic works on an evidence-based approach and is host to high-quality research projects.

She is the Royal College of Psychiatrists' spokesperson on Problem Gambling as well as being the finance officer for the Addictions faculty at the Royal College.

She is a member of the government’s Responsible Gambling Strategy Board advising on prevention, research, treatment and education.

She completed her doctorate thesis with Imperial College on Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Dysfunction in Alcohol dependency and is an honorary senior lecturer in the Division of Neurosciences at Imperial College.

In her private work, Henrietta works extensively with Human Resources and Occupational Health staff in helping patients gradually return to work following periods of treatment in hospital for both general psychiatric problems and addictions and teaching employers about substance misuse in employees. She has worked with many of the top companies in the UK on these issues following patients through from initial assessment to return to work post-treatment.

In her charity work she is a trustee of Sporting Chance Clinic, a high profile addiction charity which helps top sportsmen and women in the UK in their fight against drugs, alcohol and gambling.