Specialising in Health Psychology for children and young people
I am a Senior Clinical Psychologist working in both the NHS and privately. I have been building my private practice in Clinical Psychology since October 2015, helping children, young people, adults and parents for a wide variety of reasons, including adjustment to various health conditions, appearance related concerns, anxiety, challenging behaviours and trauma.
I have a specialist interest in working with children, young people, adults and families to help improve adjustment to conditions and help people to manage their health difficulties. Health issues can have a massive impact on the quality of life of the individual and their whole family. I work directly with patients and work indirectly through liaising with medical teams and other professionals involved in the patients care and education.
I currently work two and a half days a week in the NHS at The Evelina Hospital, where I work as the Lead Clinical Psychologist across the Endocrinology service, specialising in the Rare Bone Disease Service. I have also worked in paediatrics at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, Great Ormond Street Hospital and at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. Please click on the "About me" tab if you would like further details about my career or experience.
The best way to find out if I am the right person to help you is to email me to explain the help you are looking for. I can then email you with further details about my clinic, my therapy and where I work. If the help you need is an area that I have experience in then I will be able to offer an assessment, or a 15 minute initial free call can be arranged if you have further questions before deciding.
If the support you need is not an area I am able to support in, for example I do not offer neurological assessments and I am not currently offering legal or court work, then where possible I will recommend Psychologists who are able to offer that work.
I am currently only offering virtual sessions via Zoom, Skype or FaceTime.
I changed to virtual only due to the pandemic and I am having very positive outcomes using this approach. The benefits include being able to offer more flexible times, not having to travel to see me, plus being easy to have breaks for children at home when parent only conversations are needed.
My clinics run from 8am-6:30pm every Monday and Friday, plus alternative Tuesday’s.
It is important to ensure that any therapy is tailored to your needs. This is why the initial assessment is 90 minutes long to ensure that we have the time to get to know each other, to find out about you and your child both in terms of the current situation, their interests and their full medical and developmental history. We will then discuss what your goals for therapy are to ensure that the therapy focusses on your needs. The tools and strategies that we will work with will both aim to help improve the current situation and also to maintain the progress beyond the therapy to improve the overall wellbeing and quality of life in the future.
I take an integrative approach to help tailor the therapy to the needs of the child, young person, adult and family. The main approaches are: Cognitive Behavioural therapy, Systemic family therapy, and Narrative therapy. I am also an EMDR therapist.
I offer a free initial 15 minute telephone call to discuss the help you are looking for and answer any questions you may have. If you then wish to proceed we can find a date and time for the initial assessment. Please select the contact me tab on this website to get in touch.
If you are concerned about your own or someone else’s wellbeing, then please contact your GP or go straight to your local Accident and Emergency Department.
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