I have over twenty-five years of experience working with children, young people and adults from diverse communities, in the NHS and in private practice. I work with individuals, couples and families with a variety of presenting difficulties. They include:

• Relationship difficulties: family conflict, couple disharmony, parenting difficulties, friendship strains, work problems.
• Life and family transitions: loss and bereavement, birth of a child, couple separation or divorce, new family formations, moving to independent living or cohabiting, ageing
• Intense and difficult emotions or experiences: sadness, anger, bullying, discrimination, child aggression, excessive Internet and gaming behaviour, self-harm, depression, anxiety, trauma.
• Issues around identity and affiliation groups: including race and ethnicity, culture, sexual orientation, gender identity questioning, faith and religion, parenthood, marital status, appearance, age and maturation, ability/disability, educational and professional choices.
• Serious mental health problems or life-long conditions: eating disorders, psychosis, learning difficulties, ADHD, autism, living with a physical illness.
• Eating Disorders and Neurodiversity: both areas I have extended experience and training.

Alongside my private practice, I work part-time for the NHS as a Clinical Team Lead in a CAMHS Team. Previous roles included Principal Family and Systemic Psychotherapist and Lead Family Therapist. As part of these roles, I provide consultation and training on a variety of child and young people mental health presentations.

I provide clinical supervision and consultation to professionals of various backgrounds and multi-discipline teams. In addition, I taught at two Family Therapy training institutes, Anglia Ruskin University and  The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.

I have a strong commitment to Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and I regularly attend workshops and conferences as well as reading extensively to increase my knowledge and skills. Training includes Child Protection and Vulnerable Adult Safeguarding.

I have appropriate professional indemnity insurance, I am registered with ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) and am DBS Checked [i].

For more detailed information on my professional experience, visit my page on LinkedIn.

 [i.] DBS – Disclose and Barring Service is a non-governmental public body of the Home Office in the UK that accesses criminal record information in order to identify people who may be unsuitable for certain work, especially that involve children or vulnerable adults.