Dr Botha is a clinical research fellow at The Wingate Institute for Neurogastroenterology, Queen Mary College, University of London. He is part of part of a team currently researching the role of the autonomic nerves systems in pain and the immune-gastric response in functional gut disorders. His duties include working in a busy tertiary referral clinic at St Bartholomew’s Hospitals, where they strive to develop and apply the most up to date research based treatment strategies, to a wide range of clinical conditions.

His background is in psychiatry, being registered with the Royal College of Psychiatrists and General Medical Council. He completed his specialist registrar training in psychiatry on the Charing Cross psychiatric training scheme, London, while his undergraduate training was at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, where he has been registered as a doctor since 1995.

His graduate training in London meant he had the advantage of receiving training in a large variety of treatment modalities, in both psycho-pharmacologically and psychotherapy. He has also gained diplomas in clinical hypnosis, cognitive behavioural hypnotherapy, post graduate certificates in group analysis, received training in EMDR (eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing), cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and cognitive analytical therapy (CAT) since 2005.