Hi, my name's Rob. I'm a clinical psychologist based in London, and I've been qualified for 15 years. I've moved around a lot as a clinician and been fortunate to work with some amazing clients, staff and services in the NHS, charities and private sector.
I've designed and set up quite a few specialist services for the NHS, private sector and charities. I've been in consultant roles, been a head of therapy and a service manager. I've been able to develop my skills in working with adults, children, families and couples across my career and have worked in schools, prisons, hospitals, community services and even in theatres.
I am on the General Medical Council's rosta of experts and have undertaken some high profile work in fitness to practice tribunals for them. I also consult to West End musical theatre directors and have been a child welfare consultant for National Theatre projects. I have been an expert witness for the Courts since 2012 and have undertaken some high profile cases for high-net-worth individuals. I'm also Chair of the British Psychological Society's Section of Sexualities and in 2022 was part of their team that took them to London Pride for the first time.
As a predominately practicing clinician I have not published much research. However as an undergarduate I designed the testing paradigm of the Jansari Executive Functioning Test (previously called the Jansari, Agnew, Akesson, Murphy (JAAM) Assessment) which was one of the first virtual reality tests of executive functioning. I have also co-authored papers in paediatric epilepsy and depression, vocational rehabilitation, clinical hypnosis and executive assessment. In 2023 I published a chapter to the text book (by Routledge) "Systemic Approaches to Brain Injury Treatment". I have also appeared in print for 'The Psychologist' magazine and on BBC Radio 4 'All in the Mind' and LBC Radio. I currently teach on a masters in CBT and on doctoral courses in counselling psychology in three UK universities covering CBT, research and LGBT issues.
I have expertise in neuropsychology/brain injury, autism, forensic clinical psychology, ADHD, OCD and deliberate self harm and suicidality. As a cis-gendered, gay, male psychologist I am a proud supporter of trans rights, self-identification and I offer affirmative therapy to LGBTQ+ people and am a member of the World Professional Association for Transgender Healthcare.
The types of therapy I have specialist training or experience in are CBT, social constructionist systemic therapy, applied behavioural analysis, radically open dialectical behavioural therapy and broad psychodynamic/attachment approaches like mentalisation based therapy. I also have some knowledge of schema focused therapy and I have been trained in clinical hypnosis.
However, psychotherapy is not psychology. Psychotherapy models are based on an idea that someone came up with of how the mind works, and usually these ideas were led by the desire to understand a problem or distress. So just because we can describe a problem as being based on thoughts feelings and behaviours, or as a consicous-unconscius process, this doesn't mean that's how our mind or brain works. I do my best to make sure that my clients also benefit from the science of psychology, from empirically driven research and from qualitative knowledge that represents my clients.