Contributors
Paula Bailey is a Registered Mental Health Nurse and Systemic Family Psychotherapist and Programme Leader and Senior Lecturer in MSc child and adolescent mental health & wellbeing at Edge Hill University. Paula's research focuses on the impact of mental health on family members in both child and adult mental health services.
Sian Barnett is a Clinical Psychologist and CAMHS Manager. She completed her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at University College London, in 2003, and has worked in CAMHS for 20 years. She manages the Islington Schools Team, Trauma-informed Practice in Schools Team (iTIPS), Children's Centres and Incredible Years Parenting Groups teams. She has an interest in whole system approaches to trauma, offering supervision, training, consultation and reflective practice to help staff support children and families.
Sophie Bennett is a Clinical Academic Psychologist specialising in child and adolescent mental health. Her work focuses on developing and evaluating methods to ensure that children and young people who have emotional or behavioural difficulties in the context of a chronic physical illness are able to have both their mental and physical healthcare needs met in an integrated way. She has a particular interest in increasing access to psychological treatments through 'low-intensity' interventions, including peer support.
Fatima Bibi is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist working in a North London NHS Mental Health Trust. She has led on innovating mental health services for marginalised children and young people, specifically those who present within the criminal justice system. Fatima specialises in adapting evidence-based psychological approaches to make them more accessible and appropriate for children and young people who typically fall through the net of mainstream mental health services. She is also an associate clinical tutor and provides training, consultation and supervision in relation to diversity and inclusion on clinical psychology doctorate courses.
Florence Bristow is a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist in perinatal mental health, working across NHS services and in private practice. She has significant experience of delivering evidence-based psychological therapies for women, infants and their families experiencing mental health difficulties during the transition to parenthood. She has a particular interest in supporting parent-infant relationships and identifying the needs of partners and family members in the perinatal period. She has worked at both local and national levels to inform the development and transformation of perinatal services.
Lauren Bryan is a Lecturer and Academic Tutor on the Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology programme at Royal Holloway, University of London. Alongside her academic role, Lauren also continues to practice as a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist. Her clinical work is predominantly with children, young people and their families within NHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and also in independent practice.
Vicki Curry has worked as a Clinical Psychologist in NHS CYP-MH services for over 25 years and has a particular interest in the adaptation of CBT for use in a child and family settings. She has been Programme Director for child CBT and CYP-IAPT-related postgraduate courses for UCL/Anna Freud centre, for many years and has provided CBTCYP-related trainings for professionals and organisations across the United Kingdom and Europe.
Zoe Darwin is a Reader in health research at the University of Huddersfield. Her research field is psychosocial aspects of pregnancy, birth and early parenting. Zoe's particular interest concerns perinatal mental health and wellbeing in all parents and those pursuing parenthood, with an emphasis on experiences and needs of individuals and families.
Catherine Day is Clinical Director of a private practice in the Cayman Islands, an inclusive trauma and attachment service for people with and without disabilities/neurodiversity. She is a consultant clinical psychologist, Certified Theraplay® practitioner, supervisor & trainer-in-training, intensive interaction practitioner/mentor, EMDR trained, DDP Level 2 trained. She trained and worked in the NHS in the United Kingdom and is now involved in many government and NPO initiatives in the Caymen Islands to support people with disabilities at the level of policy, advocacy and service provision.
Simone Fox is a Consultant Clinical and Forensic Psychologist and Multisystemic Therapy (MST) Consultant. She is employed by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Previously she was Deputy Clinical Director and a Senior Lecturer on the doctorate in clinical psychology programme, Royal Holloway, University of London. She has significant experience working with young people and families in the community and custodial settings. She has worked with adult mentally disordered offenders in medium-secure units and prisons. She has experience in undertaking psycho-legal assessments for adults and young people in the criminal justice system.
Joe Hickey is a Senior Clinical Psychologist and Interpersonal Psychotherapist in NHS Tayside's Perth CAMHS and an Associate Clinical Tutor with University College London's doctorate in clinical psychology. He has a special interest in school-based mental health interventions. His previous roles in Islington CAMHS included school-based clinician, Mental Health Support Teams Manager and Joint Manager of the School CAMHS team. He also has experience as a teaching assistant in specialist SEN schools and as a postgraduate tutor at the Anna Freud Centre.
Jane Iles is a Clinical and Research Psychologist, working as a Joint Programme Director on the University of Surrey PsychD clinical psychology training programme. Jane has a background in perinatal mental health research, with specific interests in birth trauma and working to support whole families. Jane has worked on early years parenting programmes and a number of research studies in this field. Clinically, Jane has worked as a clinical psychologist in CAMHS.
Emma Karwatzki is the Programme Director for the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at University of Hertfordshire. Emma has worked in NHS children and young people's services for the past two decades, latterly as a consultant lead clinical psychologist. Emma's research interests are in the area of family, children and young people's mental health and she has a number of published outputs in the field. In addition to her doctoral training, Emma has postgraduate qualifications in leadership, supervision and systemic practice.
Pinder Kaur is an Indian British-born Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London and a practicing Clinical Psychologist. She has predominantly worked with children and families throughout her work in the NHS for over 18 years, in London, community-based settings specialising in family and parenting-based work.
Duncan Law is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with over 30 years experience working in adult and child mental health settings. He is Visiting Professor in the Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London and Director of MindMonkey Associates. He was a director and founder member of the Child Outcomes Research Consortium and has broad knowledge of working with goals and feedback and outcome tools. He has extensive experience in service and organisational development, in the United Kingdom and internationally. Above all his focus is on the effective application of complex psychological ideas in ways that make them accessible and acceptable, to enrich and enhance lives.
Shaun Liverpool is a Chartered Psychologist, Researcher and Lecturer in child and adolescent mental health and wellbeing at Edge Hill University. Shaun's research focuses on the design, development, delivery and evaluation of digital interventions to help children/young people and their parents/carers cope with mental health challenges.
Maria Loades is a Reader in clinical psychology at the University of Bath. Her clinical and research interests are on adolescent depression, specifically scalable, timely and effective treatments, including for under-served populations. Maria still practises as a practitioner psychologist and CBT therapist within the Bristol region.
Zoë Maiden is a Senior Clinical Psychologist and Senior Lecturer at Kings College London. She is currently the module lead for the post-graduate diploma in cognitive behaviour therapy for children and young people. Clinically, Zoë works in the National and Specialist CAMHS Trauma, Anxiety and Depression Clinic (N&S CAMHS TAD) at South London and Maudsley NHS Trust. Zoë has significant experience of teaching CBT to professionals of varying experience and working therapeutically with young people with severe and complex difficulties.
Anita Marsden is a Clinical Psychologist working in an NHS community paediatric service in Sussex, England. Anita has worked alongside autistic and neurodivergent individuals for over 20 years in a variety of roles, clinical and academic. Anita is passionate about developing strength-focused neuro-affirmative practice and is on a journey to align her service and clinical practice with the needs of communities of experts by experience (of which she is also a member, as a neurodivergent individual...
