30+ years of experience

Jenny Doe is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist who works with children, teenagers, parents and families. She has particular experience helping young people and families with anxiety, low mood, emotional and behavioural difficulties, trauma, neurodivergence, eating-related difficulties, identity and developmental concerns, family stress, parenting challenges, and the impact of complex life circumstances. She brings a thoughtful, practical and psychologically informed approach to helping families understand what is happening, reduce distress, and find clearer ways forward.

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Jenny has over 30 years’ experience as a clinical psychologist, including many years in senior NHS child and adolescent mental health roles. She has worked as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Lead Clinician for Child Psychology, Joint Psychological Therapies Lead, Clinical Team Lead, and Psychological Therapies Lead across CAMHS, eating disorder, neurodevelopmental and specialist services. Her senior roles have involved direct clinical work, supervision, service leadership and supporting other clinicians in complex cases, giving her considerable depth in assessing and working with layered difficulties affecting children, young people and families.

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Her clinical background includes work across child and family mental health services, paediatric psychology, eating disorders, neurodevelopmental teams, gender identity services, palliative care, trauma-informed services and work with highly disadvantaged adults. This breadth allows Jenny to think carefully about the individual young person, their family relationships, school context, developmental stage, identity, strengths and wider systems. She is experienced in working with complexity and in helping families make sense of difficulties that may not have a simple or single cause.

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Jenny is BPS Chartered and HCPC registered. She completed her clinical psychology training at University College London and North West Thames Regional Health Authority, following a first-class psychology degree from the University of Bristol. She has additional training in EMDR, trauma-focused CBT for children and young people, solution-focused brief therapy, DBT, autism assessment approaches including ADOS and 3di training, transformational leadership in children and young people’s mental health services, and psychologically informed, trauma-informed practice.

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Jenny’s work begins with a careful assessment and a clear understanding of the young person’s needs, while involving parents and schools where appropriate. Her style is calm, thoughtful and practical. She helps families understand the patterns that may be keeping difficulties going, identify what needs to change, and develop strategies that can be used beyond the therapy room. Her approach is flexible and evidence-based, drawing particularly on cognitive behavioural ideas while tailoring the work to the child, teenager or family in front of her. Clients can expect therapy to feel considered, collaborative and purposeful, with a focus on building resilience, improving communication, strengthening coping, and helping young people and families move forward with greater clarity and confidence.