Psychological functioning: • Assessment of intellectual function, level of mental impairment, suggestibility • Forensic mental health: • All aspects of psychological assessment, including aggression, arson, self-injury • Preparation of reports for mental health review tribunal, local review board • Personality: • Impact of childhood abuse upon personality • Assessment of personality disorder, re-offence risk, mitigating factors, including homicide • Sexual offending: • Assessment & ...

Children: • Psychological issues of attachment • Child protection • Abuse, i.e. emotional, physical, sexual • Behavioural difficulties • Contact • Residence • Fostering & adoption • Cognitive & educational assessments • Therapeutic: • Counselling & therapy with children, particularly adolescent girls • Adults: • Cognitive assessments • Social services: • Child protection issues • Consultancy

Adult & child psychological assessment • Young offenders • Offender assessment (psychological) • Witness assessment (psychological) • Family (private & public) • Family & child issues • Family functioning • Care proceedings • Child custody, access & residence • Parenting assessment & fitness to parent • Assessment of attachment styles • Assessment of cognitive ability • Assessment of suggestibility & compliance in people with learning difficulties (including police interviews) • Preparation of psychological reports ...

Personal injury • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Attachment & care proceedings • Access & custody issues • Parenting & family assessment • Assessment of juvenile offenders • Criminal responsibility • Fitness to plead • Risk assessments • Mental disorder: psychiatric assessment of children & adolescents up to the age of 20 • Medical negligence: children & adolescents up to the age of 20

Assessment of attachment & bonding in families • Assessment of parenting, including in the context of child care proceedings • Alcohol & drug abuse as pertaining to parenting ability • Domestic violence, physical, sexual & emotional abuse as pertaining to parenting ability • Adult cognitive & personality assessment, including own family history in relation to ability to parent • Cognitive assessment of adults to determine competence, identify learning difficulties & disabilities, & make recommendations • ...

Worked in both local authorities & the National Health Service • Specific expertise in parent-infant psychology • Trained in Crittenden's Dynamic Maturational Model of Attachment, including the CARE-Index (0-15 months) & the Pre-school Assessment (2-6 years) • These methods assess a child's attachment behaviour & organisation & are useful tools in conducting viability assessments & therapeutic intervention

Family assessments • Child care • Quality of parenting • Attachments within families • General family matters • Psychometric cognitive assessments • Assessments of learning difficulties • Child, adult & family

Childcare proceedings: • Cognitive function & vulnerability assessments • Attachment assessments • Contact dispute issues • Child development assessments • Neuropsychological assessments • Psychological state assessments • Criminal proceedings: • Fitness to plead • Witness reliability • Psychological state assessments • Cognitive function & vulnerability assessments • Neuropsychological assessments • Pre-sentencing reports • Civil/personal injury: • Road traffic accidents • Impact of trauma

Clinical psychology as it applies to the following areas: • Child development & parenting • Family dynamics & attachment issues • Trauma & dissociation • Adolescent self-harm • Criminality & offending • As such, I am able to accept instructions for family law work, criminal, personal injury & private law cases

Specialist assessment & reports on deaf & hearing-impaired adults & children in family court proceedings: • Parenting • Child abuse, neglect & the psychological impact on children • Placement & access • Psychological assessment of deaf children, adolescents & adults • Attachment • Advising on therapeutic packages of care • Sign language, deaf culture, socialisation & communication • Theory of mind • Psychological testing • Family & child issues • Assessment & reports on hearing adults & children in family court ...

Expert witness in proceedings under The Children Act 1989 • Recent reports have addressed: • Assessment of attachment, quality of attachment & effect of separation • Assessment of parenting • Impact on children of parental drug use & related behaviour • Impact on children of parental violence • Sibling attachment & placement decisions • Family dynamics & ability to change • Contact disputes • Therapeutic assessments, including potential for change

Assessment of ability • Adults • Children • Criminal • Capacity to participate • Police interview • Special measures for court proceedings • Understanding of caution & documents • Fitness to plead & instruct • Vulnerable witnesses • Suggestibility, functioning & compliance • Learning difficulty & disability • Specific learning difficulty • Dyslexia • Dyspraxia • ADHD • Attention difficulties • Autism • Asperger syndrome • Adjustments & provision to support learning & employment • Psychological & education issues • Childcare • Family ...

Clinical psychology as it applies to the following areas: • Child development • Family dynamics & attachment issues • Trauma & dissociation • Adolescent & child mental health • Cognitive behavioural therapy • Family attachment narrative therapy • Criminality & offending • As such, I am able to accept instructions for family law work, criminal, personal injury & private law areas

Assessment of children, adolescents & parents for public & private law proceedings • Attachment • PTSD • Alcohol & substance misuse • Learning disability • Parenting assessments • Capacity assessments • Domestic violence • Self-harm • Cognitive functioning • Child & adolescent offending behaviour • Working with families of African, Caribbean heritage & other ethnic minority backgrounds, including refugees & asylum seeking families • Assessment of risk • Personality disorder • Adaptive functioning