Meet the Team

Dr Sue Candy

Director & Consultant Clinical Psychologist

Sue is the founder and a director of Psychology Associates and provides expert supervision and the benefit of her extensive knowledge and experience to  many of our senior clinicians. Sue is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and has over 25 years of experience in providing expert witness testimony to the Courts. Sue’s main areas of expertise are around assessing parenting capacity and attachment difficulties, including high profile and highly complex law proceedings. Sue has vast experience in providing therapeutic intervention and assessments with individuals with mild to severe learning difficulties. She offers a wide variety of high-quality therapeutic interventions to individuals through the lifespan. Sue is registered with the insurance companies Bupa and AXA.

Sue is a well-respected and sought after keynote speaker who provides training and clinical supervision and consultancy services to large charitable organisations such as NSPCC, Action for Children and Barnardo’s.

As you may be aware, on the 14th April 2025 the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) announced changes to the Fair Access limit with a reduction of funding to £3000 and the discontinuation of the separate Fair Access Limit for specialist assessments.

We are currently working really hard to amend quotes for ongoing therapy work to fit within the new Fair Access Limit and working closely with Adopt South West and other local RAAs. We are also working closely with other specialist adoption support providers and therapeutic organisations including DDP connects and Theraplay UK to explore how we can continue to deliver specialist therapies within this limit.

If you are waiting for a new package of therapy please look out for correspondence from ASW or your regional adoption support agency, as they will need to regain your consent for the amended therapy contract.

If you are concerned about the impact of the delay on your family or have questions about the therapy or assessment you are waiting for please get in touch with Ellen or Jen and we will do our best to support you.

We will be contributing to a wider response to this and the following is a link to a petition requesting government action – Petition · Action Against ASGSF Changes (Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund) – United Kingdom · Change.org