PHOENIX PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Speech and Language Therapist
Alison is a speech and language therapist at Phoenix Psychology. She has 32 years of experience working as a speech and language therapist within the NHS.
Job Titles:
- Forensic Psychologist
- Forensic Psychologist - BA ( Hons ), MSc, HCPC Reg
Amanda Gripton has over 21 years' experience of working within Forensic settings, including HMPPS (Her Majesty's Prison & Probation Service) and Secure Care and Offender Health for the NHS. She has experience of working with medium to high risk, violent and sexual offenders presenting with complex trauma histories, varied mental health and personality presentations. Historically, Amanda's work has seen her undertake Parole assessments and reports and Expert Witness work, as well as individual and group treatments / therapies. More recently she provides formulation, consultancy, supervision and training for other professionals when working with complex and challenging presentations.
Amanda specialises in working with attachment and trauma, personality and links to offending. Amanda is experienced in a range of risk assessments, cognitive functioning assessments and psychometrics and producing detailed and complex formulations. She also provides psychological therapy for anxiety, depression, psychosis, low confidence, self-esteem and management of personality and ASD traits.
Amanda works using integrative approaches drawing on models including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Compassion Focussed Therapy (CFT), Acceptance and Commitment therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and Schema Therapy to best meet the needs of the individual. This work can take the form of individual or group therapy, as well as supervision and consultancy with others.
Anna is a Clinical Psychologist at Phoenix Psychology and has worked in mental health services in the UK for over 10 years. Anna specialises in working with developmental and complex trauma. She also provides psychological therapy for a range of difficulties such as low mood, anxiety (including panic and obsessive-compulsive behaviours) and single event traumas such as car accidents.
Anna works integratively, ensuring that the therapeutic intervention is evidence-based and tailored to the individual client's needs. The predominant therapeutic models Anna draws on are: Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP), Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Eye Movement and Desensitisation Therapy (EMDR). Anna provides psychological input via one to one therapy, via group interventions or indirectly via consultation and supervision. She is also skilled in risk assessments including assessing the risk of Harmful Sexual Behaviour using the AIM2 assessment tool.
Dr Ali Tindale has been an Associate with us since March 2015 and works mainly with the Doctors and Dentists in training at HEEWM.
Dr Alison Tindale has worked within the field of mental health since 2002 within a variety of settings. These have included the specialities of addiction, health psychology, child and adolescent mental health services and general adult mental health services. In 2007, she took time away from her career to have a family and has since returned to work with a renewed understanding of both the rewards and challenges of parenting and family life. She has lived overseas and worked within different cultural settings, having undertaken her doctoral research in the area of trauma amongst refugees.
She mainly uses a Cognitive Behaviour Therapeutic approach but also refers to other forms of therapy including Motivational Interviewing, Solution Focused Therapy, Social and Behaviour Network Therapy and Personal Construct Theory.
She has been an Associate with us since March 2015 and works mainly with the Doctors and Dentists in training at HEEWM. She also provides assessments of need and therapy to children and young people through our Local Authority contracts.
Dr Ali Tindale has been an Associate with us since March 2015 and works mainly with the Doctors and Dentists in training at HEEWM.
Job Titles:
- Clinical Psychologist
- Consultant
- Member of the CLINICAL TEAM
Clare is a Clinical Psychologist and the Clinical Lead at Phoenix Psychology and has 16 years of experience working within the psychological health care field. She is the clinical contact manager for all Adult contracts.
She specialises in working with complex trauma, whether these are as a result of early life experiences, military experiences, abusive relationships, health traumas or a combination. However, she also provides psychological therapy for a range of difficulties, including depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, traumatic experiences, offending, addiction, OCD, low confidence, self-esteem, eating difficulties and grief.
She works using an integrative approach where she uses a combination of therapeutic models to ensure a bespoke therapy is offered to meet an individual's unique needs. The predominant models she uses are Compassion Focussed Therapy (CFT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Eye Movement and Desensitisation Therapy (EMDR) and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). Clare provides psychological interventions via one to one therapy sessions, within group settings or indirectly via consultation and supervisory support. She is also skilled in risk assessments including occupational risks.
Dr Clare Thompson has 16 years of experience working within the psychological health care field. She is the clinical contact manager for all Adult contracts.
Job Titles:
- Clinical Psychologist
- Member of the CLINICAL TEAM
Dr Emma Hampson has been working in the field of psychological assessment and intervention with children and adults in a wide range of settings since 2006. Since qualifying as a clinical psychologist in 2015, her work has focused on various child orientated services including Community CAMHS, Paediatric CAMHS, Perinatal Services and Looked after children.
At Phoenix Psychology, Dr Hampson works with adults and children providing a range of assessment and therapeutic interventions. These include supporting those experiencing trauma, attachment difficulties, neurodevelopmental difficulties (such as ASD) and a range of mental health difficulties. As well as working therapeutically, Dr Hampson also delivers training for professionals.
Dr Jamie Yapp uses a variety of therapeutic approaches including Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Psychoanalytic. He is also a Certified Schema Therapist. He is highly experienced in undertaking professional risk assessment reports within a community setting, within both family and criminal law. He is also experienced in undertaking assessments of personality and treatment need, including within the community for adults, and within school settings.
His work is primarily helping people to understand, resolve and overcome difficulties linked to relationships, internal turmoil, identity, and attachment difficulties. Within his professional risk assessment work, he is able to assess for personality disorder / difficulties, treatment need, risk of recidivism and treatment need.
He finds this work very rewarding and focuses upon helping people to make links between what is happening internally, particularly things that the individual may not be immediately aware of, and how this impacts upon their relationships with others. He finds that this type of work helps individuals in being able to gain a greater understanding of repeating life patterns, and why these have happened. The goal of therapy being to move towards feeling more liberated and insightful regarding internal functioning, and minimising future psychological distress and rumination.
He has been an Associate with us since December 2015 and works mainly with the Doctors and Dentists in training at HEEWM.
Dr Jamie Yapp is highly experienced in undertaking professional risk assessment reports within both family and criminal law. As an associate, he works mainly with the Doctors and Dentists in training.
Job Titles:
- Clinical Psychologist
- Director
- Founder
- Member of the CLINICAL TEAM
Dr Gillett is the Founder Director of Phoenix Psychology, establishing the independent practice in 2006 and having actively facilitated its growth, direction and value base since its inception.
She has held clinical and management positions within the public, voluntary and independent sectors for over 25 years including being a senior clinician in NHS services for People with Learning Disabilities and Child and Family services across the Midlands. She has also engaged in a wide range of training and consultancy activities with statutory and voluntary sector organisations.
Her clinical practice focuses on specialist assessments of children and families with complex presentations, whether due to multiple needs in the family group, co-existing difficulties and / or contexts such as child protection. She also has a special interest and expertise in training, service development and consultation to teams and organisations offering assistance to vulnerable children and families.
She is a practising Expert Witness within the Family Court across England and Wales, but also offers her expertise to courts / services in British communities beyond the UK, including the Channel Islands and Falkland Islands. She has provided evidence to all levels of proceedings and has been involved at the strategic national level via her Ministerial appointment as the Child Mental Health specialist on the Family Justice Council, a non-statutory advisory, non- departmental public body sponsored by the Ministry of Justice (2008 to 2015). She continues to regularly input into a number of national forums and to present at a range of Family Justice Board activities as well as providing training via the Judicial College.
She is a tutor on the University of Birmingham and Universities of Warwick and Coventry Doctoral programmes in Clinical Psychology providing workshops and placements to doctoral students.
Job Titles:
- Clinical Psychologist
- Member of the CLINICAL TEAM
Dr Shabana Bashir has been working in the field of psychological assessment and intervention with children and adults since 2008, across a range of settings including Assertive Outreach, Early Intervention in Psychosis Services, Adult Learning Disability Services, and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. Since qualifying as a Clinical Psychologist in 2016 she has specialised in working with looked-after and adopted children, and the network around them.
She provides a range of assessments and therapeutic interventions for children and young people with complex Developmental Trauma, attachment difficulties, neurodevelopmental difficulties (such as ASD) and a range of mental health difficulties.
In addition to her one-to-one and family work, she has considerable experience of facilitating psycho-education groups and training for clients, their families and professional networks around them including parents, carers, schools and other allied professionals.
Alongside her therapy work, Dr Bashir offers psychology consultation and training services to the local authority fostering teams, with the aim of maintaining placement stability. She is also involved in facilitating various groups and training programmes, including attachment training for schools; therapeutic stories groups based on Narrative Attachment Therapy ideas; and delivering the ‘Foundations for Attachments' training programme for foster carers and social workers (developed by Kim Golding based on Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) model).
Job Titles:
- Member of the CLINICAL TEAM
- Forensic Psychologist
Dr Sophie Bettles has worked within forensic settings for over 15 years, and has been a Chartered and Registered Forensic Psychologist for the past 8 years. She has experience with working with adults and young people who have engaged in high risk behaviours, including sexually harmful and violent offences. She has experience of assessment, formulation and intervention directly with service users, as well as offering consultation, supervision and training to professionals, in both HMPPS (Her Majesty's Prison & Probation Service) and Secure Care and Offender Health for the NHS. She also offers private individual therapeutic intervention for members of the general public.
Sophie has particular expertise for working with individuals with challenging personality traits and experiences of complex trauma. She also has an interest in Autism and Intellectual Disabilities, as well as an academic specialism in Harmful Sexual Behaviour.
Sophie uses an integrative and humanist perspective when thinking about and working with service users, with a basis of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Sophie is passionate about service user involvement and having co-production at the centre of psychological services; recognising the value of experts by experience to enhance criminal justice and health care systems.
Since Dr Suzie Davies qualified in 2003, she has worked with adult clients across the age span but mostly in mental health services for older adults and people with dementia. She has considerable experience in neuropsychological assessment for the purpose of diagnosis and to establish a profile of cognitive strengths and impairments to provide information for capacity assessments and care plans.
Her therapeutic approaches include Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, Compassion Focussed Therapy, Mindfulness, and Solution-focused therapy.
She has been working with us since October 2016 on our Health Education England, West Midlands (HEEWM) contract providing psychological support in the form of assessments and therapy for all Doctors and Dentists in training in the West Midlands region.
Dr Suzie Davies has been working with us since October 2016 on our Health Education England, West Midlands (HEEWM) contract.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Clinical Psychologist
Dr Tracey Grandfield has been working in the field of psychological assessment and intervention with children and adults since 2003 within the private sector and the NHS. She has gained a broad range of experience working with people across the lifespan, and across a range of clinical areas including physical health, older adults, and looked after children. She currently works as an associate for Phoenix Psychology offering assessments and therapy to our HEEWM clients.
Tracey Grandfield currently works as an associate for us offering assessments and therapy to our HEEWM clients.
Dr Vicki Lloyd was awarded a PhD in Psychology at the University of Aston in 2002 and has an interest in qualitative research methods and in undertaking research relating to the experiences of service users, Down Syndrome and dementia and in the evaluation of efficacy of therapeutic services.
She has worked within the field of Clinical Psychology since 1997 and completed a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the Universities of Coventry and Warwick in 2005. Following this, she undertook roles within a community service for children and adults with learning disabilities and a specialist team for older adults with learning disabilities in the NHS.
She works therapeutically with children and families across the ability spectrum including those with specific disorders such as autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) and generalised learning disabilities. She has a specialist interest in the needs of looked after and adopted children and young people and their carers / families and provides a range of assessments and therapeutic interventions for children and young people with attachment difficulties, complex developmental trauma and mental health problems.
In addition to her therapeutic practise, Dr Lloyd is a practising expert witness within Court proceedings, specialising predominantly in Family and Court of Protection proceedings. She is experienced in providing written and oral evidence to the Court in relation to both children and adults and has specialist interests in the assessment of attachment difficulties in children and young people, assessment of parenting (including the impact of learning disability and / or mental health issues) and assessment of capacity.
Dr Vicki Lloyd has worked with us for many years and has a specialist interest in the needs of looked after and adopted children and young people and their carers / families.
With 30 years of experience working within Mental Health, Helen specialises in working with Looked after Children and offering therapeutic input for children, young people and their parents/carers.
Job Titles:
- Personal Assistant to the Clinical Manager
Helen initially trained within the travel and tourism industry from 2009 which led her to be front facing and work closely with clients to create bespoke travel experiences, supporting from the beginning to the end of their journey. She then had the pleasure to work with a leading industry association both administering and coordinating key events within the thriving trade. Helen has a wealth of experience in customer service and is always happy to help. Helen joined Phoenix Psychology in early 2021 on a part time basis supporting the team, and now is the Personal Assistant to the Clinical Manager on a full-time basis, supporting the co-ordination and the administration across a number of Phoenix Psychology's contracts.
Jackie previously worked as an administrative assistant in an NHS Adult Psychology service and then became the team secretary to the Learning Disability Psychology covering both children and adult clients. She progressed to Supervisor of the whole NHS Psychological Services administrative office. She joined Phoenix Psychology in January 2008 as an administrator and became the Admin Manager in April 2010. She is the first point of contact for all clients and clinicians dealing with Phoenix Psychology.
Jackie has been with Phoenix Psychology since January 2008 and is the first point of contact for all clients and clinicians dealing with Phoenix Psychology.
Job Titles:
- Assistant
- Business Support & Administration
- Psychological Assistant
Jesse is a psychological assistant at Phoenix Psychology. They are studying Psychology with Criminology at the University of Sussex and looking to pursue a career in Clinical / Forensic Psychology.
Ruth originally trained as a librarian and worked in the information field for 10 years until she retrained as a Person-centred Counsellor at Warwick University. In this role she volunteered at the Queen Alexandra College, Harborne, Brook in Birmingham and the Samaritans. She then moved to the NHS and was based in Birmingham and Hewell prisons where she therapeutically supported substance misusers both in custody and on release. She has been with Phoenix Psychology since 2014 and oversees all companywide systems and procedures.
Ruth is the Operations Manager for Phoenix Psychology and ensures the teams have everything they need to deliver timely and effective care to end users.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Member of the CLINICAL TEAM
Tristan Dugdale-Pointon is a Director of Phoenix Psychology and has supported Phoenix develop its approach to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.
Tristan has held lecturing and management positions within the public, education and voluntary sectors for over 25 years including work with both the armed forces and the emergency services. He has also engaged in a wide range of training and consultancy activities with statutory and voluntary sector organisations.
His main area of expertise focuses on inclusion and diversity in the work environment, advising organisations on UK equality legislation and building inclusive workplaces. He is an experienced misconduct investigator and has advised organisations on the outcome of internal misconduct investigations especially with cases centred around discrimination, bullying and harassment.
He has developed and delivered a wide range of training interventions including training for managers on how to deal with adverse work behaviours, unconscious bias, interview and selection, and managing employees with disability.
He is a trained and experienced coach and mentor with a focus on coaching around behaviours and coaching those with neurodiversity. Qualified as level 5 coach and mentor he has coached a variety of individuals from a range of organisations.
On a voluntary basis he is also a critical incident de briefer working to support emergency service personal who have witnessed traumatic events.