Finder

Specialises in

• CBT with Exposure and Response Prevention (CBT with ERP)
• Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)

• Family Therapy
• Mindfulness based CBT

• Trauma focused CBT

Bupa specialist

• Child and Adolescent Mental Health services

Offers

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

About me

I am a HCPC and BPS registered Consultant Clinical Psychologist with 25 years of experience. I have held senior leadership roles within the NHS and the charity sector and secured and led on grant-funded projects. I am interested in how we innovate therapies to improve health equity and help people more effectively. I have been involved with research and the development of multi-family therapy, mentalisation based interventions and interventions for parental conflict.
I specialise in work with emotion regulation- including anxiety disorders and depression, trauma, parenting and relationship difficulties including parental conflict. I worked for 10 years with the specialist Family Trauma team at the Anna Freud Centre child and family mental health charity and for 15 years prior to that in the NHS. I am skilled in different therapeutic models including mentalization-based therapy, systemic family therapy, multi-family therapy, attachment-based therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing or EMDR. I can apply these models to help with a broad range of mental health difficulties in child and adult populations. I also have 20 years of experience as an expert witness to the Family Court.
In my work I am always interested in relationships the relationship a person has with themselves, with their family and friends, with me, with organisations and institutions, with their community, with society. I think that it is through exploring and understanding these relationships, sometimes directly, sometimes indirectly, that healing and growth can happen. I have a deep respect for evidence based practice, whilst recognising that one size doesn't fit all and that there is sometimes a need to integrate approaches. I want people including children to feel that we are working in collaboration and that they have an active role in their recovery. I prioritise helping people to feel safe, respected and like they can bring any thought, feeling, experience or memory without fear of judgement or of being overwhelmed.
I have published multiple peer reviewed research articles, co-authored two books- 'High Conflict Parenting Post Separation The making and breaking of family ties' and 'Systemic Multi-Family Therapy', and co-edited another- 'Working with Developmental Trauma A casebook of Mentalization-Based Treatment for children and their families'. I am also founder of The Multi-Family Project- MultiFamilyProject.org
I regularly provide teaching, training, consultation and supervision on a broad range of topics including multi-family therapy, mentalization-based therapy for children young people and families, reducing the impact of parental conflict on children, and the assessment of parenting, across clinical, organisational and academic settings, both in the UK and internationally.