Comprehensive Assessments, Tailored Treatments & Specialist Consultations
Expert Assessments
We offer ‘gold standard’ Specialist Clinical Assessments meeting or exceeding routine NHS Mental Health care. Each assessment culminates in a detailed report with a Conclusion and Recommendations designed to provide clarity and a clear, actionable plan for moving forward.
Initial Psychiatric Assessment
During this comprehensive assessment, the Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist will review relevant information, meet with you and your child both together and separately. The Consultant Psychiatrist will provide a diagnosis (if applicable) and recommendations, and collaboratively you will develop a plan. A report is provided. This is our recommended start point when considering a comprehensive mental health package.
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Specialist ADHD Assessment
For under 18s, a Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist conducts the assessment, including reviewing detailed clinical forms from home and school prior to meeting, and interpreting your child’s QB Check (specialist computerised objective measure). They will meet with you and your child (together and separately) for an extensive clinical interview and provide specialist recommendations, a collaboratively driven plan and professional report. Please click below for more information and for over-18s.
Specialist Autism Assessment
In this multi-disciplinary assessment, the Lead Clinician will review specialist information sent to school and home prior to the assessment. He/she will meet you as a family and take a detailed Developmental Interview with parent/s. Separately, a different senior clinician will conduct a diagnostic assessment (ADOS) with the child/young person. After compiling results and reviewing clinical thresholds, we will meet to feedback on any diagnosis and next steps. Report provided. Please click below for more information.
Treatments
Helping people and using our expertise is what we are about. With years of experience and ongoing professional development mindsets, we jointly curate treatment plans that are based on best practice, evidence-based medicine and always with the child/young person in mind.
Clinical Psychology/Psychotherapy
Our Clinical Psychologists are specialists in the assessment and treatment of mental health problems and psychological distress. They are trained in a variety of evidenced-based psychological interventions across a range of mental health presentations.
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy is a way of talking with a young person that seeks to get to understand worrying behaviours or emotional states. Psychotherapists are trained to be particularly observant of play or language, such that they are able to understand the underlying feelings and conflicts that patient’s may struggle to put into words.
Psychiatry
A Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist offers families the advantages of medical interventions, including - where appropriate - holding medical responsibility for providing comprehensive care.
Psychiatrists evaluate mental health problems with attention to its physical, genetic, developmental, emotional, cognitive, educational, family, peer, and social components. Together with the patient and their family, the psychiatrist will arrive at a diagnostic formulation and agree a treatment plan.
Post-Diagnostic Support
Whether you have been assessed with us or elsewhere, we can support you to understand your diagnosis and the implications that it may have. We can directly help the child/young person, we can guide and support parents or we can provide indirect support to schools and education services.
Our highly skilled, diverse team of professionals means that we able to provide the right, tailored support to the child/young person’s presentation.
Specialist Consultations
Our Specialist Consultations are aimed to support parents and/or carers reflect upon and negotiate through the various challenges of parenting a child with mental health challenges, neurodivergence (such as ASC or ADHD) or additional educational needs.
Clinical Psychology
Julien will briefly review relevant information you provide and meet with you for extended 75 minute session. Julien is expert at working with ASC and with parents where there is Child to Parents abuse and/or self-harming or suicidality. As part of your Consultation, Julien will agree with you key goals and tasks for you to do moving forward.
Educational Psychology
Sara will briefly review relevant information you provide and meet with you for extended 75 minute session. Sara is expert at providing Educational Psychologist Assessments and reports for EHCP Plans and tribunals. As part of your Consultation, Sara will agree with you key goals and tasks for you to do moving forward.
Other Areas
Please note that we have a network of other with different specialisms. These range from Speech & Language Therapists and Specialist Medical Professions to Specialist Teachers, Tutors and ADHD coaches. If you would like to find out more, please book a free informal consultation and we will see if we can help or point you in the right direction.
