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Specialises in

• Behaviour Therapy

• Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)

• Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)

Bupa specialist

• Child and Adolescent Mental Health services

About me

I qualified in 1982 and worked for the NHS until 1995 when I became an independent practitioner.

I still work with the NHS via a contract and I have a session a week with an IAPT service.

As well as my private practice I work a session a week for the Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice seeing children, adolescents and sometimes families who have a loved one who has died or has a life limiting condition.

I was part of the National Autistic Society's assessment team for children and adolescents and as part of that team I regularly helped conduct assessments at the Lorna Wing Centre for Autism in Bromley. I worked with them part time for over two years.

I was an Associate Tutor (Clinical) with Surrey University's Doctorate in Clinical Psychology course. I worked in that role for ten years, stopping in 2016.

Areas of interest

Mental health difficulties which children and adolescents present with (ages 0 to 19yrs); Anxiety disorders; Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD); Bereavement; Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); Major trauma; Adjustment following parental break up; Chronic fatigue; Coping with illness; Bullying; Phobias including school phobia; Anger management; Relationship difficulties; Developmental assessment e.g. Autistic Spectrum Disorders (e.g. Asperger's Syndrome) - trained to use DISCO; learning difficulties; Eye movement desensitisation & reprocessing (EMDR).

Specialist interests and expertise in the following physical conditions

• Physical disability