Dr Emma Baldock

Clinical Psychologist

Emma Baldock studied for her Clinical Psychology doctorate and Post Graduate Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, where she previously completed a PhD in mental health ethics.

She specialises in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Anxiety disorders in children, adolescents and adults, and particularly Obsessive Compulsive Spectrum problems, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, and Misophonia. She is also trained in Schema Therapy.

Emma has worked in both adult and child & adolescent specialist anxiety clinics at the Maudsley Hospital in London. She tutors, supervises, and teaches CBT to people of all levels of experience and from diverse professional contexts and backgrounds.

She was previously CBT module lead for the Child & Young People’s IAPT Programme at King’s College London. Emma has published several book chapters and papers on Body Dysmorphic Disorder and produced the Understanding BDD guide for the Psychology Tools website.

Selected publications

• Baldock, E. & Veale, D. (2018). The etiology and phenomenology of body dysmorphic disorder. In The Cambridge Handbook of Anxiety and Related Disorders. Edited by Bunmi O. Olatunji.
• Baldock, E. & Veale, D. (2017). ‘The self as an aesthetic object. A model of cognitive processing in body dysmorphic disorder.’ In Body Dysmorphic Disorder. Edited by Katharine Phillips. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Veale, D., Miles, S., Valiallah, N., Butt, S., Anson, M., Eshkevari, E., Gledhill, L & Baldock, E. (2016). The effect of self-focused attention and mood on appearance dissatisfaction after mirror-gazing: an experimental study. Journal of Behaviour Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 52:38-44. doi:10.1016/j.jbet.2016.03.002.
• Baldock, E. & Veale, D. (2015). ‘Body dysmorphic disorder’. Chapter 13 in Practical Psychodermatology, 1st edition. Edited by Anthony Bewley, Ruth E. Taylor, Jason Reichenberg, and Michelle Magid.
• Woolgar, M. & Baldock, E. (2014). Attachment disorders versus more common problems in looked after and adopted children: comparing community and expert assessments. Child and Adolescent Mental Health doi:10.1111/camh.12052.
• Baldock, E., Anson, M., & Veale, D. (2012). The stopping criteria for mirror-gazing in body dysmorphic disorder. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 51,3: 323-344.
• Baldock, E. (2010). ‘An ethico-legal account of working with carers in eating disorders’. Chapter 4 in The Clinican’s Guide to Collaborative Caring in Eating Disorders. Edited by Janet Treasure, Ulrike Schmidt and Pam MacDonald.
• Smajdor, A., Ives, J., Baldock, E., Langlois, A. (2008). Getting from the ethical to the empirical and back again: the danger of getting it wrong, and the possibilities for getting it right. Health Care Analysis, 16, 1: 7-16.
• Baldock, E. & Tchanturia, K. (2007). Translating laboratory research into clinical practice: foundations, functions and future of cognitive remediation therapy for anorexia nervosa. Therapy 4,3: 285-293.