Functional Neurological Symptoms and other functional disorders, including chronic pain – the experience of a disabling physical or neurological symptom in the absence of any or sufficient explanatory structural pathology.
Such individuals may be unfairly and wrongly accused of malingering.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
I have treated sufferers of trauma since 2005: veterans of conflicts around the globe, survivors of rape and sexual assault, survivors of torture, people injured in industrial accidents or RTAs, refugees, and those who have witnessed violent death.
The impact of Coercive Control and Domestic Violence.
Areas of expertise include:
Child and adolescent assessment:
∙Attachment/ attunement.
∙Psychological, emotional and social development,
∙Depression &/ anxiety,
∙Poor school attendance,
∙Bullying,
∙Impact of divorce.
∙Parental alienation.
∙Difficulties arising from autism.
∙Functional neurological disorders.
∙PTSD.
∙Mental health.
Young adults and adult assessment:
∙Anxiety and depression.
∙Relationship and marital conflict.
∙Addiction.
∙Emotional impact of coercive control.
∙Domestic abuse.
∙Divorce.
∙Access to children.
∙Impact of suicide,
∙Bereavement, complicated grieving.
∙Conversion disorders, functional neurological disorders.
∙Workplace bullying.
∙Trauma, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
∙Personality disorders.
∙Psychosis.
∙Mental illness.
∙Co-morbidities.
