Atena
Areas of expertise:
- Assessment and treatment of adults who present with psychological problems or mental health conditions and those who may pose risk to self and/or others.
- Assessment of risk in suicidal/para-suicidal presentations.
- Specialist forensic assessments: risk of violence, domestic violence, arson, stalking, sexual violence, honour-based violence, psychopathy, malingering.
- Psychological formulation of criminal behaviour and specialist treatment of offending behaviour.
- Psychological assessment and treatment of personality disorders.
- Psychological assessment and treatment of psychological/mental health difficulties (anxiety and phobic disorders, depression, trauma and PTSD, dissociative disorders and problems arising from developmental trauma, psychosis-spectrum conditions, ADHD, substance use disorders and co-morbidities).
- Assessment of cognitive and executive functioning in intellectual disabilities and ADHD, in psychosis spectrum-disorders, dementia or cognitive impairment linked to substance use.
- Assessment and therapeutic support for adult victims of violence and sexual violence, domestic abuse, sexual exploitation and trafficking.
- Family safety assessments – assessment of risk/vulnerability in the family context, parental functioning, risk to children and protective capacity.
- Psychological provision of evidence-based individual and group therapies for adults: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Schema Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy.
