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Our associates are chartered and registered practitioners with substantial experience in prisons, secure hospitals, community services and the courts. Filter by the type of assessment you need.
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Dr Katy Atkinson-Jones
Criminal/Prison · Family/Care
Dr Katy Atkinson-Jones is a Principal Clinical Psychologist specialising in autism and ADHD assessment. She has extensive experience assessing young people and adults with complex neurodevelopmental presentations, including those with co-occurring trauma, mental health difficulties, learning needs and histories of involvement with the criminal justice system.
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Dr Vicky Hoggard
Criminal/Prison · Family/Care · Mental Health
Vicky is a Clinical Psychologist who is a Registered Practitioner with the Health and Care Professionals Council. Vicky has been qualified for 15 years and has worked in a range of mental health settings. This includes having worked for a Community Mental Health Team with adults with severe and enduring mental health difficulties as well as working for a Community Forensic Teams with adults with Learning Disabilities. Vicky currently works for the NHS, being seconded to the Local Authority to work for a Young Offenders Service.
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Dr Srikanth Nimmagadda
Criminal/Prison · Family/Care · Mental Health
Srikanth is a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and Professor of Psychological Medicine at the International Institute of Organisational Psychological Medicine as well as having membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians.
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Laura Molloy
Criminal/Prison · Mental Health
Laura is a HCPC Registered Forensic Psychologist and has been working with forensic service users for over 15 years. She has experience of working with individuals in prisons, residential services, and the community. Laura has many years’ experience of conducting a range of psychological, mental health, risk, and neurodiversity assessments to inform legal proceedings including Parole Board hearings, as well as Crown and Youth Courts.
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Dr Sue Ryan
Criminal/Prison · Family/Care · Mental Health
Sue is a Chartered Forensic and Clinical Psychologist with the British Psychological Society (BPS) and is a Registered Practitioner with the Health and Care Professions Council. She is a member of the BPS Divisions of Clinical Psychology (DCP) and Forensic Psychology (DFP) and a member of the BPS Faculty of Forensic Clinical Psychology.
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Dr Elizabeth Barkham
Criminal/Prison · Mental Health
Elizabeth is a Forensic Psychologist who is Chartered with the British Psychological Society and is a Registered Practitioner with the Health and Care Professions Council.
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Dr Katherine Hildyard
Criminal/Prison · Mental Health
Katherine is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist.
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Dr Malinder Bhullar
Criminal/Prison · Family/Care · Mental Health
Malinder is a Forensic Psychologist who is Chartered with the British Psychological Society and is a Registered Practitioner with the Health and Care Professions Council. Malinder has been qualified for 24 years and is currently employed part time by Elysium Healthcare as Head of Psychology in a Women’s Complex Rehabilitation and PICU service. She also works in part-time clinical private practice both in the UK and Australia, where she is registered with Australian Health Practitioner Registration Agency.
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Rebecca Brisbane
Criminal/Prison · Mental Health
Rebecca is a Chartered and HCPC Registered Forensic Psychologist with over twelve years of experience working across diverse academic, forensic and mental health settings. Her career began as a Research Assistant working with children and young people involved in the foster care system. This evolved to further research areas including young people experiencing severe and enduring mental health disorders. Following this, she spent seven years with the Scottish Prison Service training as a Forensic Psychologist, where she delivered specialised, offence-focused interventions addressing issues like violence, substance misuse, and intimate partner violence. She also played a key role in developing a compassion-focused program for female offenders. In addition, she supervised and trained assistant psychologists and prison officers in group work skills, report writing and delivering of offence focussed interventions. Beyond her work with the prison service, Rebecca spent six years as a panel member of the Children's Hearing System providing her with invaluable experience in working with children, young people, and their families.
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Jenny Ingram
Criminal/Prison
Jenny is a Forensic Psychologist, who is Chartered with the British Psychological Society and Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council. She qualified in 2008. Jenny has previously worked in a low and medium forensic mental health setting, between 2010 and 2016. Prior to this role she was employed by HM Prison Service, from 2000 to 2010. She has worked independently since 2016.
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Dr Katie Fanning
Mental Health
Dr Katie Fanning is a registered Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC, PYL24921) and a qualified Clinical Psychologist.
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Julia West
Family/Care · Mental Health
Julia is a Consultant Forensic Psychologist who is Chartered with the British Psychological Society and is a Registered Practitioner with the Health and Care Professions Council. She is currently employed within HMPPS as a Clinical Lead in a service for male prisoners within the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway.
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Dr Emily Baldwin
Criminal/Prison · Mental Health
Dr Emily Baldwin is a Senior Forensic Psychologist and a Registered Practitioner with the Health and Care Professionals Council. Emily has experience working in both adolescent and adult secure psychiatric services as well as within the prison and probation services. She currently works as the Clinical Lead within a Community Mental Health Service. Emily has a wide range of experience including completing psychological risk assessments of violence and sexual violence for the Parole Board, undertaking personality assessments and cognitive/neurodevelopmental assessments. Emily is fully trained in the use of the HCR-20 V3, RSVP, SARA V3, IPDE, ADOS-2 & WAIS-IV.
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Dr Claire Rycroft
Criminal/Prison · Mental Health
Claire is a Clinical Psychologist working in Independent Practice. She is Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), qualified since 2016. She currently completes psychological risk assessments of violent and sexual offenders, adult psychological assessments, and provides psychological therapy, training, and clinical supervision. Having previously worked in high and low security settings, acute mental health inpatient, and community settings, Claire is experienced in completing assessments, formulation and treatment of violent and sexual offenders, as well as clients with mental illness, including those with a diagnosis of anxiety, depression, personality disorder and PTSD. She also has experience delivering a variety of group interventions to patients, and training and consultation to other professionals. Claire is trained in risk assessments, including the HCR20-v3, RSVP-v2, SARA-v3, and structured psychological assessments including the IPDE. She is trained and proficient in the assessment of cognitive functioning and memory, including the WAIS-IV and WMS-IV. Claire has also trained in and delivered Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET), and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and has attended training for Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), and Solution Focused Therapy (SFT).
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Dr Daniel Lawrence
Criminal/Prison · Mental Health
Daniel is a Forensic Psychologist, registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and has been working with forensic service users for over 14 years. He has experience of working with individuals in secure mental health settings, prisons and in the community. He has many years’ experience of writing psychological reports and risk assessments to inform legal proceedings including Mental Health Review Tribunals, Parole Board Hearings, and Criminal and Family Courts. Daniel is currently employed as a Practitioner Forensic Psychologist within the Wales Offender Personality Disorder Pathway service.
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Margaret Davies
Criminal/Prison · Mental Health
Margaret is an experienced Health and Care Professions Council Registered Psychologist (Forensic), gaining Chartered status with the British Psychological Society (BPS) and full membership of the Division of Forensic Psychology (DFP) in 2003.
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Emma-Jayne Williams
Criminal/Prison · Mental Health
Emma is a Consultant Forensic Psychologist who is Chartered with the British Psychological Society and is a Registered Practitioner with the Health and Care Professions Council. Emma has over 18 years’ experience, with 10 years post qualification experience.
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Dr Eve Hepburn
Criminal/Prison · Mental Health
Dr Eve Hepburn is a Health and Care Professions Council registered Forensic Psychologist who specialises in its application within the field of mental health. Eve has many years of experience in forensic psychology as well as experience in clinical risk assessment, management and treatment of violent, sexually violent or specialist offenders and victims and patients with complex challenging behaviour. Dr Hepburn currently works as a Forensic Psychologist within a Healthcare Trust where she is responsible for the provision of psychological services within Offender Health for multiple HMP’s. She has experience in developing Suicide and Self-Harm Pathways in Offender Health as well as contributing to the development of trauma-informed working environments.
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Nicola Harris
Criminal/Prison · Mental Health
Nicola is a forensic psychologist who is chartered with the British Psychological Society (BPS) and registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). She is currently employed as a Senior Forensic Psychologist within the specialist education sector. Within this role she provides assessment and intervention to children and young people with social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) needs. Nicola has extensive experience of working in secure settings. She was previously employed for HM Prison Service for over sixteen years, working in a range of settings including the Long Term High Secure Estate, Category C establishments and the open estate. She has worked with both determinate and indeterminate sentence offenders, and with a range of offence types, including sexual offences, general violence, intimate partner violence and gang/group related offending.
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Kristy Summers
Criminal/Prison · Family/Care · Mental Health
Kristy is a Forensic Psychologist working within a High Dependency Learning Disability Service, supporting male patients with a range of complex needs and diagnoses, including learning disabilities, autism spectrum disorder, personality disorders and mental illnesses. Kristy delivers a broad range of psychological interventions, including offence analysis, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), diagnosis awareness, mindfulness, anxiety management, self-esteem enhancement, anger management, drug and alcohol interventions, psychoeducation, problem-solving, perspective-taking, trauma-focused CBT and schema-informed interventions. She is also a fully trained Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) practitioner.
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Catherine Gerighty-Gully
Criminal/Prison · Mental Health
Catherine is a Forensic Psychologist who is Chartered with the British Psychological Society and is a Registered Practitioner with the Health and Care Professions Council.
Read full profileDeborah Kelland
Criminal/Prison · Mental Health
Deborah is a Consultant Forensic Psychologist who is Chartered with the British Psychological Society and is a Registered Practitioner with the Health and Care Professions Council.
Read full profileCayne Lumley-Smith
Criminal/Prison · Mental Health
Cayne is a registered Forensic Psychologist with the Health Care Professions Council and is a full member of the British Psychological Society and Division of Forensic Psychology.
Read full profileDr Natalie Brotherton
Criminal/Prison · Family/Care · Mental Health
Natalie is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist who is Chartered with the British Psychological Society and is a Registered Practitioner with the Health and Care Professions Council. She is currently employed within an independent medium secure hospital where she works primarily with males diagnosed with intellectual disability, autistic spectrum condition, personality disorder and mental illness. Natalie also delivers individual and group Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) within the female service, where she works with women with a primary diagnosis of personality disorder with complex risk.
Read full profileDr Sarah Kriakous
Criminal/Prison · Mental Health
Dr Sarah Kriakous is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS), Division of Clinical Psychology and the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). With many years of experience, Dr Kriakous currently works in a locked psychiatric rehabilitation hospital which specialises in working with adult males with complex mental health needs, challenging behaviours and forensic histories. Dr Kriakous has worked creating care pathways and planning processes for clients as well as undertaking psychological assessments including neuropsychological assessments and psychological formulations in order to assist in future interventions. Dr Kriakous is also knowledgeable in treatment modalities such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Mindfulness and Compassion Based Interventions and Schema Therapy. As well as being trained in multiple personality assessments such as IPDE and PCLR.
Read full profileEmma Shillabeer
Criminal/Prison · Family/Care · Mental Health
Emma is a Consultant Forensic Psychologist who is Chartered with the British Psychological Society and is a Registered Practitioner with the Health and Care Professions Council.
Read full profileLaura Cataudo
Criminal/Prison · Mental Health
Laura is a Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registered Forensic Psychologist as well as a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society (BPS). Laura is a practitioner psychologist at Newham Personality Disorder Service. She has experience providing assessments for prisoners/forensic patients as well as case formulation and treatment planning for patients with complex needs including personality disorder and psychosis. Having worked in high and medium security settings Laura has experience working through assessments and treatment of both violent and sexual offenders as well as being skilled as a Dialectical Behaviour Therapy group and individual therapist and delivering training and lectures in DBT.
Read full profileRachel Charnley
Criminal/Prison · Mental Health
Rachel is Registered Forensic Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council. Rachel has been registered since 2020 and in total has spent over 16 years working with forensic populations in different roles. This has included assessment of risk, cognitive functioning and personality with individuals who have been convicted of varying types of offences (including violence, intimate partner violence and sexual offending). Rachel has worked completing both group based and individual intervention with people in custody and having oversight and supervision of other professionals delivering such interventions.
Read full profileRachel Roberts
Criminal/Prison · Mental Health
Rachel is a Consultant Forensic Psychologist who is Chartered with the British Psychological Society and is a Registered Practitioner with the Health and Care Professions Council. Rachel has been qualified for 13 years. She worked in prisons for 15 years, where she gained experience in working with male, female and adolescent offenders. She gained experience within all security categories from high security through to open prison conditions. Her experience has enabled her to specialise in the assessment, management and treatment of violent offenders within the criminal justice system. She has particular expertise in working in therapeutic communities.
Read full profileSeona Thackeray
Criminal/Prison · Mental Health
Seona is an experienced Health and Care Professions Council Registered Psychologist (Forensic), gaining Chartered status with the British Psychological Society (BPS) in 2011.
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