Adult Psychology

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Dr Sue Candy

Dr Sue Candy is the founder and Managing Director of Psychology Associates. Sue provides expert witness testimony to the Courts. She specialises in assessments of parenting capacity and attachment. She previously worked for many years in the National Health Service providing therapy, assessment and research in obstetrics and gynaecology, learning disability, mental health and parenting. Sue has extensive experience of providing expert psychological evidence to the Courts. She will accept referrals in childcare proceedings, fitness to plead or capacity assessments and complex personal injury cases. She provides training to other professionals in Court report writing and skills. She has an interest in training Clinical Psychologists and was formerly Admissions and Examinations Tutor at Plymouth University on the South West Clinical Psychology Training Scheme. She offers supervision to other psychologists working within Psychology Associates.

Dr Anton Bohmer

Anton Böhmer focuses on psychological and neuropsychological assessments and the implications that acquired brain injury and other cognitive changes might have on the lives of individuals and those around him. Anton has been practicing as a Clinical Psychologist since 1998 with experience in the UK and South Africa. His work within the NHS since 2003 has been in Mental Health Services for Older People and his area of specialist interest is assessment for dementia, dementia related care needs and the impact that a progressive illness might have on ability (e.g. driving). Anton has been linked with Psychology Associates since 2009.

Dr Emily Brooks

Dr Emily Brooks provides psychological assessments and psychological therapy for adolescents and adults. Assessments provided include expert witness assessments for Court, parenting assessments, mental health assessments and personal injury assessments. Emily worked for a number of years in the NHS in adult mental health and early intervention in psychosis services. She specialises in working with severe and long standing mental health difficulties, personality difficulties, and the psychological consequences of abuse and trauma. Emily has worked with Psychology Associates since 2008 and has recently joined the practice full time.

Dr Kelly Camilleri

Dr Kelly Camilleri provides staff training and consultation to a wide variety of care services. She has worked within the NHS for 20 years in both community and in-patient services. Kelly specializes in working with people who have learning difficulties. She provides individual and group therapy, and specialist assessment and intervention around mental health, behavioural, and forensic issues. She provides supervision to psychologists and other professionals. Kelly has a special interest in the provision of clinical training and has worked on the Exeter Doctoral Training Programme for 5 years. She continues to teach and supervise doctoral research.

Dr Alison Carr

Dr Alison Carr offers expert witness assessments for Court, parenting assessments, mental health assessments and personal injury assessments. Alison has worked in mental health services within the NHS for 11 years. She has worked predominantly within adult mental health services, and has a long-standing interest in family assessment and therapy. She has previously worked in specialist Mother and Baby services and with vulnerable women and their children, assessing complex issues of mental health, substance abuse, domestic violence and capacity to parent. Alison has maintained her expertise in individual and family psychotherapy through private practice since 2007 and she has been linked with Psychology Associates since 2009.

Dr Madeleine Dunham

Madeleine Dunham has 25 years experience in the assessment and treatment of children, adolescents and their families in the NHS and is now in full time independent practice. She provides reports for the Courts in public and private childcare disputes and personal injury, specialising in assessment of parents attributes and parenting abilities, children’s needs, attachment issues, domestic abuse, substance misuse, learning difficulties and mental health issues. She has been providing reports to the Courts for over 20 years and has given evidence in Court on numerous occasions. She also maintains a family therapeutic practice and works with collaborative lawyers in relation to divorce and contact.

Dr Frances Gillies

Dr Frances Gillies is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist working in adult mental health. She works part-time as a Principal Psychologist in secondary care in Devon Partnership NHS Trust where she delivers a range of psychological therapies, assessments and consultations for clients (and their families and carers) with complex mental health presentations. Frances also convenes a psychological training programme within the NHS and teaches on the Exeter University Clinical Psychology Doctoral Programme. Frances has recently joined Psychology Associates and provides assessments, reports and therapeutic interventions for adult mental health issues and presentations arising from personal injury claims.

Dr Anna Gough

Dr Anna Gough has specialised in adult mental health for the past 10 years, with a particular clinical focus on the impact of attachment/childhood trauma and the development of personality disorders.  She provides psychological assessments of parents and regularly gives evidence in Court.  Anna has previously worked in community and inpatient NHS mental health teams, including specialist eating disorder and personality disorder services.  She is trained to deliver Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder, and Eye Movement Desensitisation for simple and complex trauma.  

Dr Andrea Herbert

Dr Andrea Herbert is a Clinical Psychologist with a specialist interest in Neuropsychology and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.  She has worked in Neuropsychology since 2002 and has experience in both the assessment and rehabilitation of various neurological conditions in inpatient and community settings.  Andrea also has experience of running groups to aid people in their adjustment to living with various health conditions and offers therapy to individuals with a range of difficulties. Finally, she currently works part-time for the NHS and in her own private practice she works with people affected by trauma and various cognitive difficulties.  Here she provides medico-legal assessments and reports, as well as offering interventions including CBT and EMDR.   

Dr Annie Mitchell

Annie Mitchell is a Clinical and Community Psychologist who has worked in clinical practice, research and training in the southwest for 30 years. She currently has two part time jobs. As Senior Lecturer and Clinical Director for the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Plymouth she provides training in clinical supervision and professional issues, and is on the executive management group for Folk.us, a nationally funded research group which promotes lay involvement in health and social care research. As Clinical Health Psychologist at Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital she provides psychological assessment and therapy for patients with complex physical illness, and staff support and training in the provision of psychological care. Annie initially trained as a Child Psychologist and previously worked as a Specialist Clinical Psychologist with children with disabilities. She offers training, consultancy, supervision and team-building for statutory and independent sector agencies, and has a particular interest in promoting service user and carer involvement in service development.

Mrs Jill Moorhouse

Mrs Jill Moorhouse has practised at Psychology Associates since 1996 offering therapy for trauma related disorders. Jill has experience of practising in the National Health Service in the Adult Mental Health and Learning Disability specialties. In the course of this work she developed an interest, and received extra training in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. This  interest  extended  to the treatment and assessment of Trauma Related Disorders.

Dr Louise Nokes

Dr Louise Nokes provides psychological assessments of working age adults and children, assessments of capacity to parent and assessment of the nature and quality of attachment relationships.  She also provides assessments of psychological status for a range of expert witness reports.  Louise provides trauma based psychological therapy including EMDR and has a special interest in therapy underpinned by attachment theory for parents struggling with their own attachment trauma.  Louise has worked for Psychology Associates for the past four years. 

Dr Andrew Pritchard

Dr Katy Rees

Dr Katy Rees specialises in therapeutic work with adults and older adolescents. She previously worked in the NHS providing therapy, assessment and research in Trauma and Drug and Alcohol Services. Katy provides CBT, Mindfullness based treatment, Psychodynamic psychotherapy, systemic skills, narrative approaches, CAT, DBT and Motivational Interviewing. She has also been involved in trauma aid programme work abroad and is an approved EMDR practitioner. She has completed a Masters in Neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry and is a trained yoga teacher.

Dr Louise Robb

Dr Louise Robb is experienced in providing written and oral testimony as an expert witness in both Child and Family and Civil Proceedings.  She has worked in a variety of Adult Mental Health settings within the NHS, in addition to providing teaching and training as a Clinical Tutor for the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Exeter.  Louise has clinical experience in working with severe and enduring mental health difficulties and has a particular interest in the short and long term consequences of psychological trauma.  She has specialist training in Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), and brings a research background that has focused on the impact of maternal mental health difficulties on family adaptation and functioning.

Dr Daniel Robins

Dr Daniel Robins specialises in psychological assessments of parenting capacity and personal injury cases. He also works in the NHS with people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties and plays a specialist role in the development and delivery of services for clients with personality disorder. Daniel’s enthusiasm is for psychotherapy. He is an accredited Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) supervisor and practitioner. He is also trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).

Dr Lucie Robinson

Lucie provides developmental and psychological assessments of children (0-18), parenting assessments, therapeutic work, consultation to children’s services and families.  Expert witness assessments and reports for courts are also provided.  Lucie has an expertise in working with children who are developmentally delayed and has worked within a Community Child Psychology Service for children with learning disabilities and their families for the past 5 years.  Lucie has recently joined Psychology Associates, having spent 6 years working clinically in NHS and Social Care Child and Family Services, and 2 years working clinically for Action for Children.

Dr Tim Salzman

Dr Tim Salzman provides psychological assessment and therapeutic work in the areas of adult mental health and learning disability. He undertakes assessment of psychological state, cognitive functioning, attachment style and parenting capacity. Tim undertakes regular expert witness assessments and prepares Court reports. Tim has an expertise in working with psychological trauma and is trained in Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR). He has a specialist interest in Asperger’s Syndrome. Tim has worked independently for Psychology Associates for the last 2 years. Previously he has worked in adult mental health and learning disability services within the NHS.

Dr Maxine Tostevin

Dr Maxine Tostevin is our Clinical Director for Child and Parenting Services.  Maxine provides developmental and psychological assessments of children (0-18), parenting assessments, attachment assessment, therapeutic work, and consultation to children’s services and families.  Expert witness assessments and reports for courts are also provided.  Maxine has an expertise in working with children who have experienced abuse and has worked within Children in Care services for the last 6 years.  Maxine has recently joined Psychology Associates, having spent 11 years working clinically within NHS and Social Care Child and Family Services.

Mrs Arabella Whitehead

Mrs Arabella Whitehead provides developmental and psychological assessments of children (0-18), full psychological assessment of adults, predominantly parents, including learning disability, autism, assessments of parenting and attachment, mental health and associated difficulties such as drug and alcohol problems, therapeutic work and consultation to children and adult/family services; additionally, she will undertake personal injury assessments.  Expert witness assessments and reports for Court are also provided.  Arabella's clinical experience spans 23 years of working in the NHS and she has been working with Psychology Associates since 2007.

Dr Heather Whitelaw

Dr Heather Whitelaw has been working with Psychology Associates since 2002. Previous posts have included working in the NHS in the Learning Disability Service and working for Outlook South West providing primary care mental health services to GP practices. Heather works therapeutically, providing psychological treatment for complex adult mental health difficulties (e.g. depression, anxiety, OCD, acute and chronic trauma and grief work). She works using an integrative approach which includes CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) and mindfulness based therapies such as ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy). Her interests include Transpersonal Psychology and supporting individuals to understand and work with their critical voice to enhance self compassion. Heather works from Saltash and Dartington.