DPsych in Psychotherapy, MSc in Psychosexual Therapy. Accredited by the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies.
Dr Birchard is the founder of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity and the Marylebone Centre for Psychological Therapies.
He created the first UK based treatment programme for sexual addiction and the first training programme for therapists to work with sexual addiction.
Dr Birchard was previously an Hon. CBT Therapist at the Maudsely and South London NHS Trust.
He is the author of CBT for Compulsive Sexual Behaviour: A Guide for Professionals and Overcoming Sex Addiction: A Self Help Guide. He is the co-editor of the International Handbook of Sexual Addiction.