I am an Educational Psychologist accredited with British Psychological Society (BPS) and Health and Care Professions Council UK (HCPC). I completed my doctoral training in Child, Community and Educational Psychology at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust in 2020. I also have an MSc in Experimental Psychology from Sussex University, a MA in Special Educational Needs Psychological perspectives from the Institute of Education, University of London, as well as a PGCE and a National SENCO Award from Chichester University. I regularly undergoes continued professional development including a Certificate in Counselling skills using the Arts from the Centre for Child Mental Health, Narrative based Life Story work, Systemic Family Therapy, Play therapy approaches, Mental Health First Aid training as well as training in the use of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy approaches.

I have worked in a number of Local Authorities and a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, gaining experience of working within multiagency teams to support Looked After Children. Prior to starting my doctorate, I was employed as an Assistant Educational Psychologist and a teacher in primary education for approximately twenty years. This included working in senior leadership in specialist social, emotional, and mental health settings and running a Primary Learning Support Unit. My doctoral thesis explored the experiences of Virtual School Advisory Teachers and Designated Safeguarding Teachers for Looked After Children, an area of interest resulting from my experience working to safeguard children and young people.

During my work with Kent County Council, I was involved in two new projects; the first working collaboratively with the Virtual School Kent to develop the new Children with a Social Worker advisory provision to schools and the second, a multi-agency approach to supporting school with pupils who are Emotion or Anxiety Based School Avoiders (ABSA). I have also provided supervision to school staff alongside consultation, observation, and assessment and have experience of delivering Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA) training and supervising groups of ELSAs.

I currently work as an independent Educational Psychologist, which includes completing statutory assessments for several Local Authorities, work with independent consultants, a national fostering agency and individual requests from parents or schools. I use a range of psychological approaches for assessment and consultation, as well as providing training on a variety of topics, including supporting girls with autism in education. My interests include the use of Non-Violent Resistance (NVR), person-centered and solution focused approaches to support young people, parents, and school staff. I am currently continuing my training as Video Interactive Guidance (VIG) practitioner and am qualified as a supervisor.

I have over 12 years of experience working as a psychologist with adults, children, young people and families. I have experience of working with people with emotional problems, relationship difficulties, eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia and mood disorders such as anxiety, depression, psychosis, trauma, PTSD, OCD and other related conditions. I have worked in many different health settings with people with both mild, moderate and chronic mental health difficulties.

My specialist experience and interests are working with children and adults with developmental concerns, special needs, pain, birth trauma, adjustment to disability and chronic illness. I am experienced in working with children and adults with developmental difficulty, disability such as Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), ADHD, HIV, pain and other chronic conditions. I am also interested in parenting practices – I think raising children is challenging and I enjoy helping parents who need some space and outside support. 

I like to work within the principles of Developmental, Cognitive, Behavioural, Psychodynamic, Narrative and Systemic therapies. I am passionate about my clinical work, take it very seriously and will try to use the time we have to help you gain some understanding into difficulties and help you find strategies to deal with day to day problems. 

A Senior consultant psychiatrist in the Brighton and Hove area. He is a general adult psychiatrist with a special interest in occupational psychiatry, mental well-being, psychosexual problems, anxiety disorders, mood disorders, depression, and mental health problems related to religious/spiritual and cultural beliefs and practices. He has been a consultant since 1999.

His approach to clinical practice is based on putting his patients first. Dr Ojo adopts a bio-psycho-social framework and supports patients using a 'head, heart, and hands' philosophy to dealing with mental health problems. This essentially is focusing on thoughts, emotions, and actions in achieving positive growth and change. 

Dr Ojo is a qualified coach, leadership mentor, accredited mediator, and organisational consultant. He has taken courses in behavioural design for health in order to increase the ways in which he is able to help his patients.

He is an ex medical director with over 12 years of experience in formal medical leadership. He is also a senior founding fellow of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and was the Associate Registrar for the Policy Support at the college(2017-22)

Dr Richard Soppitt has practised as a Consultant Child Psychiatrist since 1998 who has been involved in gold standard ASD diagnostic pathways since 1995, having worked in the West Midlands, Kent and Sussex in the NHS. He currently works in the NHS and has expertise in related conditions that can present with possible ASD features. He has worked with Chailey Clinical Services and Brighton EIS as well as an inpatient consultant at Chalkhill.

Dr Soppitt is not currently undertaking general clinical work but is offering Autistic Spectrum Conditions (ASC) / Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) assessments alongside Specialist Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychologist, Dr Charlotte FlackHill  Dr Soppitt and Dr Flackhill have worked together in a local NHS ASD pathway and have co-authored a paper on ASD and attachment difficulties.