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Dr James Spiers
Award Winning Author
James is a British psychologist, chartered member and associate fellow of the British Psychological Society and a Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registered Counselling Psychologist. He works in full-time clinical practice in the assessment and treatment of chronic anxiety-based problems, PTSD, complex PTSD, and specialist psychotherapy for people diagnosed with functional neurological disorders (FND).
Release 9th June
Lost on Repeat (2025)
Obsession and compulsion don’t always fit neatly into boxes. Maybe you follow relentless rituals to prevent an irrational fear. Perhaps you feel a constant need for things to be balanced and even. Or maybe your demanding internal standards mean you regularly work fourteen-hour days, still find time to colour-code your wardrobe and set five alarms before you go to sleep. Because people should always arrive on time, right? In clinical practice, the experience of both obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and obsessive compulsive personality traits is rarely clear-cut, and they often overlap. But, at the end of the day, we are people, not just labels from a diagnostic checklist.
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I’ve experienced both OCD and demanding internal standards from both sides of the therapy room. As a psychologist, I’ve spent many years helping others with their struggles, and for over three decades, I’ve also been managing my own. I’ve seen five therapists, each with different approaches, with no single silver bullet, just an accumulation of knowledge and a slow process of piecing things together.
This book is not a clinician’s guide or a self-help manual. There’s no sales pitch to ‘overcome your OCD’ or ‘let go of your unsustainable standards.’ Instead, it’s a brutally honest, unfiltered reflection on obsession and compulsion from both clinical practice and personal experience. No neat answers, no miracle cures, just the messy, frustrating, and unpredictable reality of leveraging life as a compulsive-obsessive person
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New Release
Living with Dissociative Seizures (2025)
Non-epileptic seizures (NEAD) can be confusing, frustrating, and have a significant impact on daily life and confidence. Friends, family, and even healthcare professionals often struggle to understand the condition, leaving people feeling isolated and unsupported.
Taking you behind the scenes of live clinical practice, this book offers a pragmatic guide to understanding NEAD. Using a rare, in-depth case study, it provides an honest and realistic look at what treatment can involve. Alongside this, it introduces helpful strategies to support daily life, focusing on communication, emotional expression, managing dissociation, and value-based living.
Whether you’re waiting for therapy, supporting someone with NEAD, or a professional looking to improve your understanding, this book offers clarity and practical tools to navigate life with dissociative seizures. No quick fixes, just realistic, useful insights from clinical practice, written with real people in mind.
