Please contact us via our contact form or by telephone if you would like us to arrange a discussion with one of the Psychologists.
Educational Psychology
Many of our children and young people require;
support from an Educational Psychologist to help them
- Achieve their educational potential
- Access the educational and functional curriculum’s to the best of their abilities.
- Understand acceptable ways to present their views, wants and needs, reducing negative behaviour.
- Understand their strengths and needs in order to achieve their goals.
Clare Boorn
Information to follow shortly.
Clinical Psychology
Many of our children and young people require;
support from a Clinical Psychologist to help them;
- Understand their emotions and how to present them in an acceptable manner to others.
- Understand route causes for emotions and how to live in acceptance of this
- Understand how they present and how this is perceived by others.
- Acknowledge frustrations, fears and anxieties.
Katie Hunt
Katie has worked as a Clinical Psychologist since 1996, most recently as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in Nottingham and as Clinical Tutor on the Trent Doctoral Training Programme in Clinical Psychology. For most of her time as a Clinical Psychologist she has specialized in working with children and young people and their families who are experiencing emotional, behavioural and developmental difficulties. Katie has particular interests in working with children with special needs, including autistic spectrum disorders, and in the area of child neuropsychology. As someone specializing in work with children and families, she tries to make sure that her practice is child focused.
Katie works with families with children who are experiencing emotional, behavioural or developmental difficulties including:
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Children with acquired brain injury (such as head injury, and the after effects of meningitis and other neurological conditions)
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Developmental difficulties, including autism
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Difficult behaviour
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Fears and worries
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Problems with anger
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Difficulties with sleep
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Parenting difficulties
She works with preschool, primary age and secondary school aged children and their families.
One of her particular interests is in the area of neuropsychological assessment with children and young people. Neuropsychological assessments are specialist assessments of children and young people who have (or may have had) a brain injury or a neurological illness such as meningitis or encephalitis. These assessments are designed to help the child and all those around them to understand the pattern of strengths and difficulties that the child has in different areas of their cognition such as learning, memory and attention, and how these skills might differ from others of the same age.
She also offers consultancy and supervision with other professionals and medico-legal assessments.
Katie is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist, and a Full Practitioner member of the Division of Neuropsychology of the British Psychological Society (this is the way the British Psychological Society indicates that a Psychologist has relevant knowledge, skills and experience in clinical neuropsychology).
As a Chartered Psychologist she is bound by the British Psychological Society’s code of conduct which you can read about by visiting the BPS website at www.bps.org.uk/the-society/code-of-conduct. You can also read more about expertise in neuropsychology by going to the BPS website at www.bps.org.uk/don/don_home.cfm .
Support from one of the Psychologists helps staff to;
- Understand how the young person can express anxieties, fears and worries through negative behaviour and develop techniques to encourage the young person to express these in a more socially acceptable way.
- Recognise how to turn negative behaviours into positive behaviours.
- Create social and moral learning opportunities throughout the young person’s day.
- Support the young person achieve an emotional balanced life plan.
- Understand about the psychological needs of young people with a specific diagnosis; Autistic Spectrum Disorder , Cerebral Palsy, Specific Speech and Language Disorders, Dyspraxia.
- Understand about specific psychological approaches to support young people.
