Communication

I communicate with clients, their systems and external services to conduct assessments to formulate clients' current concerns and assist in diagnosis decision-making and intervention plans. I work in multidisciplinary teams, where I have considered how personal and professional values can affect practice and be harnessed to foster successful teamwork. From this, I have developed my ability to communicate highly technical and clinically sensitive information effectively to clients, their families, and other professionals.

Reflective Skills

Collaboration

I've learnt to involve clients' voices in audits by collecting their service & treatment feedback. I've also involved clients and their networks in the therapeutic process by collaboratively developing formulations and intervention plans with their input. From this, I've learnt the value of person-centred practice, i.e. improved therapeutic alliance with clients and identifying future service growth opportunities. This experience has been central to developing my value of collaboration, and I will always place involve clients and their networks in clinical work and service development.

Reflection on my personal experience has taught me how mental health affects all aspects of an individual's life. I also have a dyslexia diagnosis, and I use dyslexia software, report templates, and supervision to manage my workload on tasks requiring extended reading and writing periods. These experiences have taught me the difficulties of assimilating a diagnosis and mental health into life and which has been central in guiding my ability to be compassionate and empathise with clients.

My Research Skills

Applying Psychological Knowledge

Throughout my work experience, I have had training in various psychological theories, models and interventions such as CBT, DBT and narrative therapy. In combination with the NICE guidelines approach, I have directly applied the evidence-based literature in my practice whilst providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions to support children, young people and adults from various clinical populations. This experience is central to developing my ability to apply psychological knowledge to clinical populations.