Who am I?

I have worked for nearly 20 years as a psychologist. While I specialise in working with parents and babies and children 0-5, I have helped children and young people up to the age of 25 including those with a diagnosis of autism, ADHD, or learning disabilities as well as those who have experienced trauma and adverse early life experiences. 

In addition to running my private practice, where I work with children and young people experiencing mild-moderate distress, I am currently employed by the NHS as a senior practitioner psychologist in a specialist family service.  Until recently I was employed by Exeter university as a Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) tutor on their Children and Young People's-Improving Access to Psychology Therapies postgraduate course. I train VIG practitioners nationally and internationally.  I am proud to have  volunteered in Tanzania with my family for 3 months, where I was part of team who started training social workers and psychologists to use VIG with families where the children had run away to live on the city streets. 

During the first covid lockdown, I was contracted to work with academic staff at the University of Sussex on an National Institute of Health Research funded project looking at how online therapeutic interventions were similar and different to in person. The study led to the publication of these evidence based guidelines for therapeutic interventions on line.