About Me

As a Child & Educational Psychologist I am professionally trained to doctorate level and use evidenced-based models of psychology and child development. I work with children, young people, schools, families and other professionals in a wide range of contexts within the community.  I support the learning, social, emotional and behavioural development (SEBD) and mental health needs of children and young people aged 0-19.  I have a decade worth of experience in:

• Offering consultation within a psychological problem solving framework.
• Undertaking a range of learning, developmental, social, emotional and behavioural and curriculum based assessments.
• Implementing direct psychological interventions, including: therapeutic based interventions (both long and short term); learning based interventions; and behaviour based interventions.
• Providing psychological system-level interventions at family, school, community and local authority levels to support change and development.
• Delivering Continuing Professional Development and training to a wide range of professionals and schools at whole school, group and individual level.
• Setting-up and running group interventions such as circle of friends, anger management, therapeutic story writing, and parent groups.
• Undertaking research and evaluation studies in schools and other contexts and facilitate schools in carrying out their own action research projects.
• Advising on steering groups and panels to offer psychological advice.

My specialist interests lie in autism, interventions for emotional and behavioural difficulties, using CBT with children and young people and using Video Interaction Guidance in my practice.

I am a member of the Australian Psychological Society and the British Psychological Society. I am accredited by the Australian Health Professionals Registration Agency and the Health Professionals Council (HPC) in the UK.