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Bupa specialist

• Child and Adolescent Mental Health services

Offers

• Face-to-face consultations
• Video and telephone consultations

About me

I have over 20 years of experience working in the NHS, specialising in child and adolescent mental health. This has allowed me to gain extensive experience in working with children, adolescents, young people, siblings and parents to overcome a wide range of psychological, emotional and behavioural difficulties.

I specialised for over 10 years at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, Devon working with children and young people with physical health conditions and associated difficulties such as anxiety and low mood. I then started working for a Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) Team in South Devon, where I have worked as Clinical Lead for a service for young people with eating disorders. I continue to work in the CAMHS team part-time alongside working for The Family Psychology Practice.

I have completed additional training in a wide range of therapeutic approaches including: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy; Narrative Therapy, Family Therapy and Attachment-based Therapies, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Mindfulness-based Therapies. I feel passionately about my ability to integrate all of these models into my work, allowing me to truly tailor the way I work to meet the needs of each individual and family.

Areas of interest

Eating disorders; Anorexia; bulimia; ARFID; Anxiety; school refusal; OCD; phobias; low mood and depression; self-harm; behavioural difficulties; parenting; relationship difficulties; Autism; ADHD; medically unexplained symptoms; 0-25; paediatric patients; CBT; ACT; systemic family practice; ERP; CBT-E; CBT-BN.

Specialist interests and expertise in the following physical conditions

• Eating disorders
• Gastrointestinal disorders

• Pain management

• Psychophysiological disorders