Independent CBT and A-CBT Therapist at Independent Practice (2025-08 – Present)
- Conduct comprehensive psychological and functional assessments tailored to neurodivergent presentations.
- Identify cognitive, behavioural, sensory, and environmental factors contributing to distress or impairment.
- Develop collaborative, formulation-driven case conceptualisations that integrate ASD/ADHD traits.
- Deliver structured, evidence-based CBT adapted for attention, processing, communication, and sensory needs.
- Modify pace, language, visual supports, and session structure to enhance engagement and understanding.
- Use behavioural strategies to support executive-function challenges (organisation, planning, initiation, follow-through).
- Teach practical, neurodiversity-affirming emotion-regulation strategies.
- Help clients recognise early emotional cues, reduce overwhelm, and build coping routines.
- Address anxiety, low mood, frustration intolerance, and shame commonly linked to ASD/ADHD.
- Maintain high standards of documentation, supervision, and reflective practice.
- Conduct ongoing risk assessments tailored to neurodivergent presentations.
- Ensure safeguarding procedures are followed for children and adults.
- Liaise with schools, families, healthcare teams, and external agencies to support holistic care.
- Provide recommendations for reasonable adjustments and supportive environments.
- Contribute to multidisciplinary meetings and care planning.
High Intensity CBT Therapist at Wiltshire Talking Therapies (2024-07 – 2025-08)
Providing specialist psychological therapy assessments with clients referred to the NHS Talking Therapies service, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.
- Formulating and implementing plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.
- Responsible for implementing psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations and drawing upon relevant explanatory models.
- Evaluating and making decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual.
- Exercising autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
- Providing specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
- Contributing directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
- Undertaking thorough risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
- Communicating in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
- Assessing and delivering highly complex, sensitive and contentious information to patients.
- Providing expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the treatment team.
- Providing medico-legal and other reports where appropriate.
- Attending serious incident (SI) meetings as needed.
- Working clinically with interpreters.
CBT Therapist at CAMHs - Healios Mental Health Service (2023-07 – 2024-06)
- Manage complex caseloads of children and adolescents in partnership with families and carers.
- Conduct thorough assessments including risk evaluations and formulate tailored intervention plans.
- Deliver evidence-based therapeutic interventions aligned with NICE guidelines.
- Liaise with multi-agency professionals; ensure voices of young people and families inform care plans.
- Monitor and evaluate outcomes using Routine Outcome Measures (ROM).
Trainee CBT Therapist at Faversham Counselling Service (2021-03 – 2023-04)
- Conduct comprehensive assessments, clinical formulations, and individualized treatment plans for referred service users.
- Deliver structured Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) sessions aligned with NICE guidelines and evidence-based practices.
- Collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams, including mental health professionals and external agencies, to coordinate client care.
- Communicate treatment recommendations and clinical information in a professional, empathetic, and client-centered manner.
- Perform ongoing risk assessments and implement tailored risk management strategies to safeguard service users.
- Provide a range of psychological therapies designed to improve mental health outcomes and promote recovery within the IAPT framework.
Mental Health Social Worker at Kent County Council (2018-11 – 2021-03)
- Offering detailed safeguarding assessment for vulnerable adults and children in the community and implementing measures to reduce risk.
- Work effectively to support people to cope with issues that limit their quality of life.
- Identify individuals or groups in need to support and develop measures to meet those unmet needs, often advocating on behalf of clients and raising public awareness on pertinent issues.
- Working with victims (Adult and Children) to carry out safeguarding assessments.
- Undertaking effective Care Act 2014 assessment, planning, implementing and evaluating appropriate recovery approach to maximize self-determination and empowerment.
- Work alongside multi-disciplinary colleagues and other agencies including Acute and Community Trusts, Primary Care Services and the Voluntary sector to support and enhance the wellbeing of service users and carers.
- Manage caseload of people with both complex and non-complex Mental Health disorders.
- Create person-centered care and support plans and packages for service users.
- Contribute to the effective work environment for the best outcome of service users.
Mental Health Social Work Assistant at Kent County Council (2018-03 – 2018-11)
- Work in partnership with qualified Mental Health Social workers to implement interventions to service users and carers in accordance with their care and support plan.
- Engage in effective Care Management functions, undertake placement reviews, and organize care packages, direct payments and personalization schemes for service users and carers as appropriate.
- Engage collaboratively with Approved Mental Health Practitioners (AMHP) in the capacity of an AMHP backup to provide support to both professionals and service users during AMHP assessments.
Research Officer at Permanent Mission of Ghana to the United Nations (2016-02 – 2016-09)
- Carried out quantitative data analysis of existing secondary data sets and primary quantitative data using excel and SPSS.
- Organizing, designing and carrying out qualitative fieldwork, often with marginalized or vulnerable citizens of Ghana in different locations and context across Geneva.
- Carried out desktop research, using a range of methods and sources of data, related to inequalities.
