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 and have been working as a Local Authority Educational Psychologist for 11 years. My main work and life 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 consider this a life-long event. My specialist training is in mental health and coaching and I am also a qualified organisational change practitioner. My main EP experience has been within highly diverse and challenging communities where it is important to work with the complex, often systemic, factors that affect children and young people’s learning. For me, this puts relationship at the heart of everything, so this will always be my start and end point. According to the vast 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 have worked across all areas of SEN.  
I am effective at helping schools find pathways through complex problems by developing open and supportive relationships with those whom I work with and using a naturally calm and pragmatic approach to problem solving.   I take a solution focussed approach, which can be applied across group consultations. 
I also deliver training sessions, such as emotion coaching, precision teaching, and working memory.  Training packages are developed in a bespoke manner to suit the needs of individuals and schools.  One of my current interests focusses on supporting schools in becoming aware of mental health issues and promoting emotional wellbeing in their settings.