Dr Lucy Wheen

After gaining a degree in psychology, Lucy continued to postgraduate training in mental health care. She worked in the NHS with children, young people and adults providing individual and group therapy. Lucy has worked with individuals with a range of presenting issues such as depression, anxiety, difficult relationship patterns, loss and bereavement, stress, trauma and abuse, self- confidence and self-esteem issues and drug and alcohol misuse.

Whilst working in the NHS Lucy studied a doctorate in counselling psychology and gained experience in a range of assessments and therapies within different clinical settings.

Once qualified as a registered counselling psychologist Lucy worked in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). From here Lucy went on to develop specialist skills working with children’s residential homes. During this time Lucy worked with people who presented with a wide variety of issues including social, emotional, behavioural and educational needs, children and parents who had suffered trauma, parents with complex mental health problems, safeguarding issues and organisational dynamics. Many of the young people Lucy supported were autistic and neurodiverse. Lucy went on to lead and develop a therapeutic service within a children’s residential care provider, offering trauma informed therapeutic care to children and the professionals and carers supporting them. 

Lucy then went on to work for a charity as the Clinical Lead for a Specialist Autism Assessment and Support Service where she worked alongside speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, nurses and other professionals to offer responsive and high-quality Autism Services.

Before moving into private practice Lucy went on to work as the Head of Psychology for a Family Safeguarding Service within the Local Authority. Here Lucy worked with families experiencing domestic abuse, substance misuse and mental health difficulties, many of them having experienced trauma in their lives. 

Now in private practice Lucy puts all this experience, skills and learning to use working with individuals, families, professionals and organisations to offer psychology services that are responsive to their needs. Lucy also works with trusted colleagues to offer high quality, multi-disciplinary and neuro-affirming autism assessments.

Assessment

Lucy offers assessment of a wide range of presentations including cognitive assessments and full psychological assessments. She has attended additional training in the following:

-   ADOS-2 and ADI-R Combined Training

-      ACIA training 

-   BPS Approved Psychometrics A&B Level Testing

-       STORM- Risk Assessment Training- self harm, suicide and crisis prevention

Therapies

As an experienced psychologist Lucy has core therapeutic approaches in person-centred therapy and psychotherapy. In addition, she has attended training and developed experience in several therapeutic approaches and interventions including the following.  

-     Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)

-     Dyadic Developmental Practice (DDP) Level 1 & 2: trauma Informed Psychotherapy and Parenting

-     Incredible Years Parenting Programme

-     Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Training

-     Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for adults and children

-     Solution focused therapy

-     Trauma focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

-      Introduction to Sensory Integration Difficulties 

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Lucy is registered with the HCPC and her registration number is PYL27677.

All clinicians working for and with Safe Base Psychology Services receive regular clinical supervision as part of our commitment to ongoing professional development, striving to provide the best possible quality of care to our clients, and maintaining our professional and ethical standards.

At times Safe Base Psychology Services will work with other organisations and services to ensure that we are responsive to the needs of individuals and organisations.

Safe Base Psychology works with a small number of trusted colleagues. These are qualified, professionally trained professionals. All the work we do adheres to a strict code of ethics and complies with the guidelines provided by the Health and Care Professions Council and other relevant professional bodies.

All clinicians associated with Safe Base Psychology Services are Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checked.