Dr Brigid Duffy
Dr Duffy has worked in the NHS for over 15 years and has experience with working with children and young people with a learning disability, Looked after Children, Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children and vulnerable adults. She has developed robust skills in clinical assessment and formulation of difficulties. Using a variety of quantitative and qualitative assessment and clinical skills.
Dr Duffy has numerous experience of write child psychological expert witness reports where she can advise the court on; identifiable psychological difficulties, the treatment recommended, the cause of such difficulties, provide a clinical opinion of the child’s care needs and also can assess attachment relationships and parenting.
Areas of specialism
- Developmental Trauma
- Complex Trauma
- PTSD
- Attachment difficulties
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Looked After Children
- Assessment and formulation
- Self-harm / Suicidal Ideation
- Parent Assessments
Profession: Psychologist
Courts or Tribunals: Family Court, Immigration and Asylum
Age groups: Adolescent, Adult, Child
Psychological Specialisms: Autistic Spectum Disorder, Learning Difficulties, Mental Capacity, Parent-Child Attachment, Parental alienation, Personality Disorder, Substance Misuse, Trauma and PTSD
Therapies offered:
