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Bupa specialist

• Child and Adolescent Mental Health services

About me

Availability and Contacting Me:
Please check www.drlucychan.co.uk for details of current availability and referral critera. Please note I only work with babies, preschoolers and children up to primary school age and with parents or adults who are parents. All appointments are in person in East Dulwich on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and are usually weekly in the same day/time slot. I am afraid I do not take referrals from the borough of Lewisham.

If my service is suitable please contact me at: contact@drlucychan.co.uk including the borough in which you live.

What I Offer:
I offer the following in East Dulwich:
-Psychological assessment, therapies and support for families with children under five and primary school age (up to 10 years)
-Parenting advice and support and psychological therapies for parents
-Antenatal and postnatal support, Getting to Know Your Newborn sessions (0-10 weeks) and parent-infant therapy
-Psychological therapies include; Narrative and Systemic therapies, Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), EMDR & parent-infant and parent-child therapy.

About Me:
I have worked as a psychologist in the NHS since 2003 and as a qualified clinical psychologist since 2008. My clinical psychology doctoral training included gaining a specialist child and family training place at the world renowned Tavistock Centre. In my NHS practice I worked at the Tavistock Centre, Central & North West London Adult Mental Health Services and the award winning Islington Community CAMHS before moving to a senior clinical psychology role at Hertfordshire CAMHS in 2010.

Qualifications & Memberships:
Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (DClinPsy)
Bachelor of Science with Honours degree in Psychology (BSc Hons)
British Psychological Society Chartered Psychologist status (CPsychol)
Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (AFBPsS), awarded in recognition of experience and contribution to the field of psychology
Association of Infant Mental Health (AIMH)
Association of Child Psychologists in Private Practice (ACHIPPP)
I hold enhanced DBS clearance and professional indemnity insurance

Areas of interest

Child & Family Clinical Psychology; preschoolers and primary age children, parenting support, antenatal and postnatal support, parent and baby/toddler, developmental assessment, parent mental health

Issues include stress, worry, anxiety, panic, phobias, low self esteem, mild to moderate low mood, tics, understanding and responding to behaviour, toilet training, the parent-child/attachment relationship, baby, toddler and child sleep, support for parents following their child's diagnosis of health or developmental condition