Educational Psychology Service

FWTSA have secured the services of a team of Educational Psychologists to work with schools within the Alliance. - individual details below.
Please contact Pam Lord at FWTSA Tel: 01530 277363 if you would like their assistance.

Morag Gornall
I have over twenty-five years of experience within a Local Authority Educational Psychology Service and have worked as a link educational psychologist for schools, early years settings and families as well as in management positions. I have a particular interest in the early years and autism spectrum disorder but have wide experience of children and young people of all ages. I am committed to working with others to ensure that all children and young people have a positive nursery or school experience and achieve their potential, whatever their difficulties or additional needs.
                                                                                                 

Karen Booth-Clibborn
I am an Educational Psychologist with over 15 years experience.  I have excellent experience of forming honest and open relationships with parents and school staff and working with schools with a diverse range of cultures and needs. In recent years I have provided schools with training on a range of topics,
including school anxiety, attachment disorder and restorative approaches and worked as a psychologist with a Youth Offending Service.
I also have 7 years of teaching experience and re-trained to be an Educational Psychologist at theTavistock Centre (affiliated to the University of Essex) in 2001/2002.
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Rachel Griffith
I have 28 years’ experience training and working in a combination of social care, educational and psychotherapeutic roles. I worked as a Local Authority Psychologist for 11 years and now work as an independent EP full time. My ethic is about integrity, equality and empowerment and I aim to make these ‘show’ through all aspects of my work. Always committed to growing as an EP, I enjoy a variety of relevant continuing professional development opportunities. My specialist training is in mental health, coaching and hypnotherapy as well as being a qualified organisational change practitioner. I have always worked within highly diverse communities (schools, colleges, alternative provisions and pupil referral units), often with the systemic factors that affect children and young people’s learning e.g. complex emotional, behavioural and health needs. For me, this puts relationship at the heart of everything so this will always be my start and end point. According to the range of people I have worked with, this appears to be one of my main strengths!

Dr Sarah Godwin
My experience as an educational psychologist comes from working with young people from a diverse range of cultural, socio-economic, and often complex backgrounds.  My work is tailored to the specific needs of the young person and the school, drawing on a wide range of assessment, consultation and intervention methods.  I work across all areas of SEN. 
I am particularly experienced at working with schools to support children with SEMH difficulties; and alongside carrying out in-depth assessments to produce comprehensive reports relating to SEMH difficulties, my work can include Functional Behaviour Assessments and the creation of multi-element plans.  In addition, I can support schools in becoming aware of mental health issues and promote emotional wellbeing in their settings. 
Training I deliver includes (but not limited to): understanding attachment difficulties; Emotion Coaching; Precision Teaching; Paired Reading; and understanding working memory.  Training packages are developed in a bespoke manner to suit the needs of individuals and schools.

Dr Maria Abijah-Liburd
I have worked for over 25 years with children, young people and adult learners across a variety of settings including community education provision, residential social care settings, youth offending programmes, nurseries, schools and colleges. I have a particular interest in work around children who are looked after, previously looked after or ‘on the edge of care’ however, I have a vast amount of experience in supporting schools with their understanding and approaches in relation to a wide range of special educational needs.
My approach to psychological assessments is grounded in collaborative consultation, holistic/ systemic assessment and strength-based/solution-focus approaches. A particular focus of my work is around supporting the emotional wellbeing and resilience of both the pupils and the adults who work in education settings. I offer a range of training around this as well as other topic areas including (but not limited to) restorative practices, understanding and supporting executive functioning skills and attachment/developmental trauma awareness  training. I also offer support to schools through the use of coaching models, the use of problem solving models (e.g. Solution Circles, Circle of Adults, Insights and Solutions circles) and through the use of organisational change systems (including PATHS, Force Field Analysis, MAPS and Appreciative Inquiry).