As a Clinical Psychologist, Dr Ward has trained in a number of models, and can adapt her intervention based on your needs. Following an initial assessment, she will develop a collaborative formulation with you to identify what is underpinning your difficulties and what goals you have for treatment. If you are interested in learning more, please Contact Us to arrange a free 15 minute consultation. Appointments can take place either in person or online.
Areas of Expertise
Dr Ward has extensive experience working with individuals, couples and families and can discuss with you in your assessment what will best meet your needs. She has experience of helping people across the age range with the following difficulties:
- Depression/low mood
- Anxiety disorders (including OCD, social anxiety, panic, phobia, generalised anxiety)
- Eating Disorders (including Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder)
- Trauma
- Self-criticism
- Autism Spectrum Disorders (including assessment and diagnosis)
- Parenting Interventions
Dr Ward has also developed and run various group programmes. If this is something you would be interested in exploring further, please get in touch.
Therapeutic Approaches
The therapeutic approaches that Dr Ward mainly works in are:
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Compassion Focussed Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution Focussed Therapy
- Brief Strategic Therapy
- Evidence-based Parenting Interventions
- Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
If you are interested in learning more about what is involved in these therapeutic approaches, please refer to our blog post Let’s Talk About Therapy Models.
Discrete Assessments
We have extensive experience in the assessment of autism for children (minimum age 5), adolescents and adults. Our assessment is thorough as we believe it is important to give people the time they need to share their story and to ensure we can confidently form an accurate opinion.
The full assessment involves:
- Taking a detailed developmental history over two sessions (two hours)
- Completion of the gold standard in autism assessments, the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS-2) with a Psychologist and another allied health professional e.g. Nurse Therapist, Occupational Therapist or Speech and Language Therapist, as per NICE Guidelines
- Administration and scoring of questionnaires
- Review of relevant reports e.g. school reports, previous assessment reports
- Liaison with other services as appropriate e.g. school, other health professional
- Review information collated against diagnostic criteria (ICD-11)
- Provide two versions of written feedback report to allow more choice as to what to share with other professionals:
- a detailed one containing all information from assessment and recommendations
- an abbreviated version with information from the ADOS-2 and recommendations
- Feedback