About

Louise is a registered Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council, a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society and a member of the Association of Educational Psychologists.

After graduating with a BSc Honours degree in Psychology at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Louise completed a Masters Degree in Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Durham, before she was awarded a Doctorate in Educational and Child Psychology at the University of Sheffield. Louise is a qualified Educational Psychologist with a broad range of experience working within a Local Authority context.

Louise has worked effectively with children and young people with a wide range of learning and social communication needs. These include dyslexia, dyscalculia, Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD), Autism Spectrum Disorder/Autism Spectrum Condition, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, acquired brain injury, a range of speech and language needs and other needs which relate to memory and learning. Louise’s experience also includes working in a therapeutic way with children and young people with emotional needs relating to anxiety, challenging behaviour, anger management and bereavement and loss.

Louise has delivered conferences and training events covering an expansive range of issues and topics which are pertinent to child development, education and identifying and managing areas of need within school. She has also delivered programmes in relation to self esteem and identity development, bullying, emotional attachment, working memory and many other aspects of learning.

The extremely positive working relationships which Louise has developed with schools, children and young people and their families are central to her work, and she firmly believes in applying a range of approaches within psychology in a flexible way, so that her practice mirrors the challenges and needs of her clients.