Recovery is more than physical.

Supporting the psychological side of injury, pain, surgery, illness, and rehabilitation for individuals and the clinicians who support them.

Work with Me
Work with Me

Dr Carl Bescoby PhD

PhD in Psychosocial Rehabilitation. Experience across elite sport, injury, chronic pain, surgery & medical recovery. Developer of clinician training & psychological rehabilitation tools. Working across individual care and rehabilitation systems.

Helping people recover better by transforming how recovery is understood and supported.

For Individuals

Injury, pain, surgery, and illness can impact confidence, identity, motivation, and wellbeing. Many people feel frustrated, stuck, disconnected from themselves, or anxious about what comes next.

Psychological support can help you navigate the emotional challenges of recovery, rebuild confidence, manage setbacks, and develop the skills needed to move forward with greater clarity and resilience.

You don't have to navigate recovery alone.

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For Clinicians

The quality of communication, validation, therapeutic relationships, and the rehabilitation environment can influence engagement, adherence, confidence, and recovery experiences.

Through CPD training, practical tools, and psychologically informed frameworks, I help clinicians integrate psychological principles into everyday rehabilitation practice without becoming psychologists.

Build stronger therapeutic relationships. Support behaviour change. Enhance recovery experiences.

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  • "Working with Carl has helped me to navigate the journey from injury to recovery. He supported me and gave me the tools to feel confident, in control and more self-compassionate"

    ACL Injured Performer

  • “Anyone who has gone through serious injury should work with Carl! His understanding of what we go through mentally is second to none. Helped me return back stronger”.

    Jamie - BJJ Athlete

  • "Carl has helped me help my clients manage the mental side of pain and to find the tools to get through the mental highs and lows of rehab"

    Toby - Lead Physio NHS

  • “What a difference Carl has made to my life in such a short space of time. Thank you for your help and advice.”

    Ben - Academy Football Player

  • “After 10 sessions we are now able to deal with our own thoughts and feelings in a more productive way. We now have the psychological tools to inform next season."

    Keith - Lead Physiotherapist- Australian Sport Governing Body

  • "Carl has helped me reduce the fear and severe anxiety I had about returning back to netball. Thank you so much for your guidance- I could not have done this without you"

    Steph - Super League Netball Player

  • "Carl helped me transition from professional sport to a new career following a career ending injury. This was one of the hardest things I have faced and I couldn't have done it without his support. Truly the best!"

    Professional Basketball Player - BBL

Get in touch

carl@theinjurypsychologist.com

Chichester, West Sussex
United Kingdom

View fullsize The hardest bit is feeling disconnected. Disconnected from your sport. Disconnected from your teammates. Disconnected from the version of yourself you were before injury. We’re wired to belong. To feel part of something. To have a place. Ca
View fullsize Injury has a way of creating a double experience in that you have to hold and make space for what is lost whilst also working out what is being asked of you. There is something important about not rushing past either. To acknowledge the grief of di
View fullsize Part 2 of the process of becoming. Whoever needs to hear this today this is for you. The mental side of injury recovery is about rebuilding a relationship with yourself that can hold what this experience asks of you.
View fullsize These are lies not truths. They’re only dangerous if you believe them and the impact is so so clear to see in my work all the time. This is about common humanity over isolation. If you work with me you will hear me speaking about this all the
View fullsize Injury is exposing. It revels the truth around the relationship you have with your body and with those around you. What matters most is those who sit beside you whilst you work out who your next version is to be.
View fullsize It’s important to recognise the ASK during injury recovery whilst also holding space for what is lost. Injury removes A LOT and injury recovery asks for A LOT. If we can productively process the loss we can turn attention to the ask but not b
View fullsize If you’re injured right now, the future version of you is still under construction. 🦺 🏗️ 🚧 This space can feel uncertain, scary and unsettling. The instinct I see so often in my work is to try to return, to restore what felt familiar. Th
View fullsize Being injured is fighting battles no one can see. No scan picks this stuff up, it’s never visible but always there. Most of it never gets said out loud and there’s almost a hidden expectation to just suck it up and power on through. I