Working Together
Finding Solutions
Working Together
I am a qualified and experienced educational psychologist, with broad experience of using psychology with schools, families and local authorities to find solutions.
Using Psychology
Finding Solutions
Working Together
I have a positive legacy of consultative working with parents and professionals, in schools, local authorities and across health services, having worked as an educational psychologist, as an education officer within a local authority and a regional advisor with the National Strategies.
Finding Solutions
Finding Solutions
Finding Solutions
Psychology has been at the heart of my professional career for over 20 years. I use solution oriented strategies throughout my practice, whether this be in assessing an individual's needs through to working across a local authority.
Working together, using psychology, finding solutions
Psychology is a study of how we think, feel and subsequently behave.
"Psychological knowledge is often applied to the assessment and treatment of mental health problems, it is also applied to understanding and solving problems in many different spheres of human activity." (APA, 2010)
Assessments
It is difficult to give precise details of what type of assessment would be the most appropriate without some details of the difficulties that a child is experiencing. Whilst a full psychometric assessment might seem appropriate, it is important to realise that this looks only at the abilities of the child, it takes no account of other factors, such as the way in which the teacher engages children in learning.
Values and Experience
I have worked as an educational psychologist in a variety of roles since completing my training in 1992. I deliver educational psychology with a rich, purposeful and clear understanding of issues in education which impact upon children and young people's learning and development; upon parents and their expectation; and upon schools and some of the conflicts which are experienced.
The British Psychological Society Chartered Psychologist
HCPC Health and Care Professions Council
Association of Educational Psychologists
