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Child and Family IssuesThe consultancy offers assessment, advice, mediation and therapy in relation to the following areas:
If you would like more information or would like to book an appointment, please telephone the office on 01273 821402 or email us at the following address: info@jmassociates.co.uk Alternatively, click 'Contact' for more details. Our Psychologists and Therapists who may be able to help include: John McKeown, MA (Hons), M Ed Psych, PGCE, AFBPsS: Chartered Educational Psychologist, Managing PartnerEducated at Aberdeen, Surrey and Sussex Universities John has been a practising Psychologist for over twenty years. He has previously been an area Educational Psychologist for two local authorities. John specialises in assessment and advice on Educational, Occupational and Legal matters. He has been Managing Partner of John McKeown Associates since it formed in 1985. Oderay Alonso, BA.(Hons) Psychol,Oderay Alonso has a BA Honours degrees in Psychology from the University of Granada, Spain. This entailed a 5 year degree course. She is trained in Behavioural Psychology and has extensive experience of implementing programmes based on Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA). She also provides training to other professionals, parents and families. She works with a wide range of social and behavioural issues in children. Oderay has a particular interest in Autism and how to develop social skills in children on the Autistic Spectrum, having been trained in peer play, school shadowing, functional communication and reciprocal play. In 2005 she gave a presentation to the PECS 2nd International Congress in London on how to implement ABA and functional communication.
Dr Richard Bailie, BSc (Hons), DClinPsy, Chartered Clinical PsychologistDr Richard Bailie works with children and families, with a particular clinical and research interest in childhood trauma. He undertakes expert witness work for care proceedings, contact proceedings and provides therapy for children and families predominantly using cognitive behavioural and systemic principles. Dr Bailie has worked for the NHS since 1998. He has recently started working privately alongside an NHS role as mental health specialist in a Youth Offending Team. His NHS work involves reports for the Courts and the assessment and treatment of adolescents who have committed criminal offences.
Dr Stephen Briers, D.Clin.Psychol, Ph.D: Chartered Clinical PsychologistDr Stephen Briers works with a broad range of emotional and behavioural problems in both adults and children. He has a particular interest in trauma and adjustment disorders and prior to joining John McKeown Associates worked in the field of HIV/Psychosexual health within the Health Service. Dr Briers is regularly instructed to prepared reports for forensic, medico-legal and Child Care Proceedings. He is experienced in the assessment and treatment of various aspects of family functioning and has been a resident Psychologist for Little Angels and Teen Angels for the BBC
Susan Dutfield Cert Ed, BA (Hons), MA, Dip.RD, PG Dip, MACATSusan Dutfield is a psychologist and qualified Cognitive Analytic Therapist working in the NHS and in private practice for 12 years, working with children, their families and teachers, both in the family home and in schools. She is also a qualified teacher and university lecturer who acts as consultant to schools and care institutions. She offers Peer Support Training for mentors and mediators in schools - setting up a tailor made programme for the school, training of supporters and supervision. She has Postgraduate training in Clinical supervision and is available to undertake supervision and consultancy work. Susan is qualified in Life and Performance Coaching with adults and children. She works with EAP companies using Solution Focussed, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Cognitive Analytic Therapy techniques. She is a member of the British Psychological Society and a member of the Association of Cognitive Analytic Therapists, and Association of Coaching.
Timothy P Gillett, MB. BS. MRCPsych, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Child and Adolescent Cognitive Therapist.Tim Gillett is a Consultant Child Psychiatrist who currently works as the lead clinician at the Sussex Centre for Children and Young People an Adolescent in-patient unit in Haywards Heath. Additionally he has a private practice as an accredited and UKCP registered cognitive therapist, and will see clients at the offices of JMA in Brighton. His specialist therapeutic skills are in the area of CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy). He is a fully accredited practitioner with the BABCP. He has a particular interest in young people with major mental health problems particularly severe anxiety disorders, depression, and eating disorders.
Dr Peter Jakob, Ph.D, C.Psychol, Consultant Clinical PsychologistDr Jakob works with a variety of difficulties in adults, children, young people and families. With some 25 years of experience as clinical psychologist and family therapist, his specialisation is in providing brief therapy and family therapy for anxiety, trauma and severe trauma, and for serious behaviour problems. Before joining John McKeown Associates, Dr Jakob headed a large child psychology department in the NHS, and was the clinical lead for a team providing therapy to young people and families involved with Social Services. Over the past years, he has been introducing 'Non Violent Resistance' to the UK, an approach designed specifically for working with behaviour problems as well as aggression and self-destructive behaviour in young people
Alison Lesley, MA Psychotherapist UKCP registered Alison has over thirty years experience of therapeutic work with adults, children and families in a variety of settings including The Priory Group, the NHS and Employees Assistance Programmes as well as private practice. She trained at the Institute of Psychotherapy and Social Studies as a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist but uses an Integrative approach based on the philosophy that each person is unique and thus requires a subjective intervention appropriate to their individual needs. Alison has training and expertise in many areas including Couples Therapy, attachment and systemic problems, self-harm, suicidal ideation, sexual abuse and eating disorders. Dr Joanna Livingstone, (BSc: DClinPsych), Chartered Clinical Psychologist.Dr Livingstone works half time between private practice and the NHS. She works with adults and children providing a mainly cognitive behavioural therapeutic (CBT) approach as well as systemic principles to a range of emtional and behavioural problems. Tailoring specialist CBT programmes at home or school for children and adolescents with specific learning and/or behavioural problems is often an integral part of this approach. Emotional problems treated include anxiety, depression, panic, phobias, relationship issues, and obsessions.
Frankie McLean, BSc, MSc, Chartered Clinical PsychologistFrankie McLean worked in the NHS between 1995 and 2003 and in private practice since 2000. Her specialist area is children and families with a particular interest in childhood trauma. She undertakes expert witness work for care proceedings, contact proceedings and compensation claims. She works therapeutically with children and their families using behavioural, systemic and psychodynamic principles.
Terry Moriarty, M.A., PG Diploma in CounsellingTerry is a very experienced Counsellor who spent many years teaching prior to her completing her diploma in Counselling in 2000. She has worked extensively with students and staff both in mainstream and special education and has an additional qualification as a Teacher of the Deaf. She has been working as a freelance Counsellor in four local secondary schools, two of which are mainstream schools, and two special schools.. She has worked with young people who present with a wide range of needs and difficulties, including young deaf people, those with physical and medical problems, others who are on the Autistic Spectrum and teenagers with emotional and behavioural difficulties. She sees young people whose concerns range from family breakdown, depression and anxiety, school refusal, bullying and anger management. Her long career in teaching coupled with her current experience as a counsellor has enabled her to work closely not only with young people, but with families, carers, educators and other associated professionals. Her background in Drama has been another valuable tool in empowering clients and enabling them to work in a related sphere
Veronica Rosenberg BSc MSc Chartered Clinical PsychologistQualified as a clinical psychologist in 1976 and has 30 years experience of working with children, their families or carers in the NHS. She has been in private practice since 2001.She has worked in a variety of NHS settings including child development centres, paediatrics and CAMHS (Child and adolescent mental health services). She works with a broad range of emotional and behavioural problems in children and adolescents providing both assessment and therapy. Her therapeutic work draws on both cognitive behavioural and systemic principals. She has a particular interest in working with children and their families with a chronic or life threatening illness as well as children with neurodevelopmental difficulties, including children on the Autistic Spectrum.
Dr Andrea Shortland, Chartered Clinical and Forensic Psychologist.Dr Shortland has worked in a variety of voluntary and statutory organisations. She has worked as a forensic psychologist within the prison service managing the delivery of CBT groups for adult offenders and carrying out complex assessments, specialising in risk of violent and sexual offending and assessing change/therapeutic outcomes. She has also provided assessment and therapuetic services for adults with severe and enduring mental health difficulties within an inpatient adult setting. Dr Shortland currently offers psychological assessment and therapeutic services to young people and their carers within the looked after system. In her work with John McKeown Associates, Dr Shortland offers assessments and therapeutic work to adults, families and young people. She specialises in child and family assessments including parenting and attachment assessments, risk assessments including the risk of sexual or violent offending within the family, and mental health assessments for young people. Dr Shortland has particular interests within the areas of Looked After Children, trauma and neglect, attachment, psychosis, family and systemic work, multi-disciplinary working, sexual offending and risk assessment.
Dr Esmoreit Sleyster, Ph.D, C.Psychol, Clinical Child PsychologistEducated in the Netherlands and at the Tavistock Clinic in London, Dr Sleyster has extensive experience working for the NHS as a Clinical Child Psychologist, and has been in private practice on a part-time basis for some years. She has worked with pre-schoolers and school-aged children, on an individual basis, in groups and with them and their parents and families. Esmoreit has developed expertise in working with a wide range of complex childhood and adolescent problems like pervasive developmental disorders, attachment disorders resulting from neglect and abuse, and with emotional and behavioural disorders. Esmoreit describes her therapeutic style as 'integrative': informed by systemic and psychodynamic thinking, as well as deploying cognitive-behavioural and solution-focused brief psychotherapy techniques. Over the last 6 years Esmoreit has specialised in working with children in the care of the Local Authority. She has experience in the assessment of atachments and parenting, and in undertaking assessments for the purpose of care proceedings. Esmoreit joined John McKeown Associates at the end of 2005 as an Expert Witness.
Rachel Sievers, MA, PG Dip CCS, MRCSLT, MASLTIPRachel Sievers is an Independent Speech and Language Therapist, who has many years' experience of working with children and young people with speech, language and communication impairments. She has worked in a wide range of settings, including health centres, mainstream and special schools, and has provided training for parents, carers and staff. Rachel works with clients of 3-18 years and with adults who have had communication difficulties from an early age. Clients can be seen at either school/college or at the offices of John McKeown Associates in Brighton. Rachel will normally carry out a speech and language assessment that may enable you to gain a better understanding of the individual's difficulties and strengths. Strategies for improving the individual's communication and access to learning situations are suggested. Assessment is often followed by blocks of speech and language therapy sessions on an individual, paired or group basis, as appropriate. Structured activities and games or role-play and discussion are used to help develop the individual's communication skills, using strengths to support weaker areas. Clients also benefit from being taught strategies to cope more effectively with their difficulties. Therapy targets are set and reviewed on a regular basis. Liaison with school or college staff and support to parents is also offered to facilitate and extend the individual's developing skills.
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