David Knight is a BABCP Accredited Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist with over thirty years of clinical experience across the NHS and private practice.

He has worked with people from every background imaginable — Olympic athletes and Premiership footballers, chart-topping musicians and international business leaders, as well as people navigating the quieter, heavier difficulties of everyday life: anxiety that won't settle, sleep that won't come, the persistent sense that things could be different if only something would shift.

In seven years as a Lecturer in CBT at the University of Chester, David trained the next generation of CBT therapists. In thirty years of clinical practice, he has learned something those training years only hinted at: that the tools of cognitive behavioural therapy work for almost everyone, that insight alone is rarely enough, and that the gap between knowing what needs to change and actually changing it is where most of the real clinical work happens.

His approach is evidence-based, structured, and direct — without being cold. He believes that good therapy respects the intelligence of the person sitting opposite. It does not offer false reassurance or vague encouragement. It offers a framework for understanding what is happening and a set of specific, testable tools for changing it.

The Blueprint Series

The Blueprint workbooks were built from the same clinical materials David uses in individual therapy — the same frameworks, the same case study patterns, the same evidence base — restructured so that motivated people can work through them independently, at their own pace, without a waiting list.

They are not books to read and put down. They are programmes to work through.

The Thriving Blueprint — A CBT and Positive Psychology programme for overcoming negative thinking and building lasting wellbeing.

The Insomnia Blueprint — A CBT-I programme for breaking the cycle of poor sleep, based on the NICE-recommended, evidence-based approach that consistently outperforms medication in long-term outcomes.

The Agency Blueprint — A CBT workbook for building high agency — the belief and experience of being the author of your own life.

Further titles in the Wellbeing Series are in development.

Working with David Individually

David works with clients online and in person, with individuals across the UK, Europe, and the United States. He specialises in anxiety disorders, depression, OCD, insomnia, and the kind of general life-stuckness that does not always have a neat diagnostic label but is no less real for that.

If you are interested in individual therapy, use the contact form below. David typically responds within 48 hours.

This is not a crisis service. If you are in urgent need of support, please contact your GP or call the Samaritans on 116 123.

Credentials

- BABCP Accredited Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist

- 30 Years Clinical Experience — NHS and Private Practice

- Former Lecturer in CBT, University of Chester (7 years)

- International Practice — clients across the UK, Europe, and USA