Charlotte
Areas of expertise:
- Experience across multiple professional contexts (i.e. inpatient, community) and across the lifespan working with people experiencing psychosis.
- Working with “third wave” Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) approaches, such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).
- Working with relational therapeutic approaches, such as Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT).
- Conducting, interpreting and reporting on autism assessments, particularly the ADI-R with parental informants.
- Conducting, interpreting and reporting on ADHD assessments.
- Psychological assessments, formulations and interventions for the below client groups:
- Anxiety (General, Social, Panic, and specific phobias)
- Low mood and depression
- Suicidal ideation and actions to die by suicide
- People experienced trauma and complex trauma
- Psychosis
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Attachment difficulties and those stuck within relational ‘roles’
Experience:
- Experience working in inpatient, outpatient and community settings.
- Experience working with adults, older adults, children (CAMHS services) and people with learning disabilities.
- Experience working with people with neurodiversity, and tailoring approaches to best fit the individual.
- Experience working with interpreters, particularly British Sign Language interpreters, to work with deaf and hard-of-hearing children.
Bio:
Within my ten years of experience in mental health services, I have worked with clients across the lifespan with varying needs, including physical and learning disabilities. These varied experiences have allowed me to become skilled and knowledgeable in conducting detailed, integrative, compassionate, and person-centred assessments, formulations, and interventions. My approach integrates the social graces and power threat meaning frameworks to produce person-centred and trauma-informed formulations.
Throughout both personal and professional experiences, I have learned the importance of practising patience, self-compassion, self-care and radical acceptance – all of which I strive to apply as therapeutic foundations in my own practice. I am competent in formulating from Psychodynamic, Systemic, ACT, and CBT approaches.
My professional experiences have enabled me to become proficient in conducting detailed and comprehensive psychological and neurodevelopmental assessments. I am skilled in utilising various assessment tools, including the WISC-V, WNV, WAIS-IV, Vineland-III, ADOS-2, ADI-R and DIVA-5.
