Minds in Session Ltd provides independent psychological and psychiatric expert witness assessments to courts, solicitors, barristers and local authorities across the UK.

Our multidisciplinary, multilingual team of consultant psychiatrists, clinical and forensic psychologists and accredited therapists undertakes:

Neurodevelopmental assessment (ADHD and autism, ADOS-2/ADI-R/DISCO-accredited, including forensic presentations); forensic risk assessment (violence, sexual offending, extremism, stalking, honor-based and group-based violence, parole and MAPPA); psychiatric expert reports (fitness to plead.

Mental state at time of offence, intent and insanity, disposal, treatability, asylum and immigration); family and parenting assessment (global family assessments, parenting capacity, domestic abuse and coercive control, looked-after children); cognitive and capacity assessment (intellectual functioning.

Mental capacity, neuropsychological and dementia-related assessment); trauma and psychological injury (PTSD, complex PTSD, racial trauma, workplace bullying and harassment for Employment Tribunal and civil claims); and second opinion/peer review of existing psychological and psychiatric evidence.

We act as Single Joint Experts, undertake legal aid work, and our reports follow CPR Part 35, FPR Part 25 and CrimPR Part 19 standards.

Typical turnaround is 4-8 weeks, urgent instructions accommodated. Assessment also offered in Portuguese, Spanish, French and Farsi.