Dr Louise W is a Clinical Psychologist who can undertake assessments of adults and children. Her area of expertise are in the following:Â
- Providing expert witness reports to inform care proceedings.
- Experience of working with children and their families across a range of settings.
- Cognitive/capacity assessments of children and adults.
- Attachment and developmental trauma.
- Assessing impact of abuse on children.
- Experience of working with victims of child sexual exploitation and county lines involvement.
- Assessing and treating child, adolescent and adult patients with a wide variety of mild, moderate and severe mental health problems
- Working with patients from across the lifespan, and with those in transitional life stages.
- Using specialist forensic risk assessment tools (e.g. HCR-20, SRP, RSVP).
- Experience of working closely with staff from various agencies, including teaching staff as part of the CAF/TAC process, as well as in child in need and child protection cases.
- Experience of providing psychological treatment across inpatient, criminal justice, residential and community settings offering both individual and group interventions.
- Experience of working with adults and children with autism spectrum disorder
- Experience of working with adults with personality disorder
- Experience of working across a variety of criminal justice and forensic settings with both children and adults