Category: Psychologists

I am a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist in Pain Management, registered with the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC). I have an Honour’s Degree and a Master’s Degree in Psychology, and a Doctoral Degree in Clinical Psychology.

I have more than 10 years’ experience working both in Mental and Physical Health. In the past 6 years, I have provided specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and evidence-based interventions to individuals, across the life span, with complex mental and physical health difficulties. I specialise in Pain Management. I have a particular clinical interest in psychological trauma and long-term pain. I am currently completing my Medico-legal Training with Bond Solon, which is accredited by Cardiff University.

Medico-Legal Experience

I am currently accepting medico-legal instructions, acting for the Claimant, Defendant, or joint instructions and have completed the Cardiff University Bond Solon Civil Expert Witness Certificate Courses below:

• Excellence in Report Writing
• Courtroom Skills training
• Civil Law and Procedure 1 & 2
• Cross Examination Day

I am a Consultant Clinical Psychologist chartered by HCPC (Health and Care Professions Council) and a fully accredited Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist with the BABCP (British Association of Cognitive and Behavioural Psychotherapists).  

I have over 17 years of experience in providing specialist mental health assessments and evidence-based psychotherapy (e.g. individual and group Cognitive Behavioural Therapy -CBT and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing – EMDR) for a range of moderate to very complex psychological and emotional difficulties to adults. 

I am currently the Clinical Lead for Newham Talking Therapies (East London NHS Foundation Trust), a high performing London-based Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) service. In my role I am providing strategic leadership and supervision for a large team of psychological professionals and having the overall responsibility for the delivery of outstanding psychological services to a diverse and complex population. I am also involved in teaching, training, consulting and supervising experienced clinicians. 

My clinical specialties include: 

• Adult Mental Health and Psychological Assessments  
• Trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder 
• Chronic and Recurrent Depression  
• Chronic Pain and Medically Unexplained Symptoms 
• Anxiety (e.g. Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Social Anxiety, Panic Disorder) 
• Multi-morbidity (co-morbid Depression or Anxiety and long-term conditions) and assessment of psychological impact of Chronic Pain or other long-term health conditions  
• Domestic Abuse and Relationship Difficulties 
• Employment Stress 
• Risk assessments 
• Supervision

Medico-Legal Training Courses

Bond Solon, accredited by Cardiff University Law School

• Excellence in Report Writing
• Courtroom Skills
• Cross Examination Day
• Civil Law & Procedure

I have an honours degree in Psychology and both a Masters Degree and a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. I am chartered by the British Psychological Society as a Clinical and a Health

Psychologist and hold an Associate Fellowship of the Society. I am also registered as a Chartered Scientist by the Science Council.

I completed clinical training in 1987 and have over 30 years’ experience in applied Clinical Health Psychology, specialising in the management of chronic conditions. I have developed a number of multidisciplinary services providing support to people with long term health conditions, particularly chronic pain.

I have 25 years’ experience in medico-legal reporting and court work in the areas of personal injury, chronic pain and post-traumatic stress disorder. This work has been predominantly on

behalf of the plaintiff and a small number of cases have been undertaken on behalf of the defendant as well as on a jointly instructed basis. 

I held senior posts at Gloucestershire Royal NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust, where I was professionally responsible for teams of health

psychologists engaged in clinical, organisational and research work.

From 2001 – 2008 I worked for a number of NHS national support teams, specialising in clinical governance and patient involvement. During this time, I held an honorary contract with North

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist in the Pain Management Unit, where I maintained my clinical practice.

In October 2008 I was appointed Professional Lead for Clinical Health Psychology by NHS Birmingham East and North. This post incorporated clinical sessions in a multidisciplinary Pain Clinic. From December 2010 until I retired from full time NHS work in March 2015, my employing organisation was Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust. I currently hold part time contracts with a number of NHS Pain and other clinical services.

I am a member of the British Psychological Society’s Divisions of Clinical Psychology and Health Psychology. Other societies include The British Pain Society and the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP).