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Mental Health Advice
Do you require information, advice and guidance around the subject of mental health, but do not require therapy? If so, I can provide you with this support. I help a wide spectrum of people, from parents who need advice about their children's emotional health, through to healthcare, legal and HR professionals who need independent guidance or reports written.
Whatever your reason, I am most likely able to help and if not I can certainly point you in the direction of someone who can. Please email my PA, Doon Muir to set up a telephone or video consultation.
Individuals I Can Help
Parents often get in touch with me about their child's emotional health or behaviour, seeking guidance on where to go for help or how to manage the situation themselves. Sometimes their children are already in therapy but the parents are seeking a second opinion or further understanding of the diagnosis or therapeutic process.
I am often contacted by people who are worried about their partner/family member and want to seek advice on what might be going on and how to support them better.
I provide a telephone/video call based service to health professionals who require guidance and support on how to effectively help and manage patients who are or are suspected of being psychologically unwell.
I have extensive experience of working with people who are physically unwell and are suffering with chronic pain conditions and can provide private psychological assessments that outline suitability for surgical procedures i.e. bariatric surgery bariatric/spinal cord stimulator insertion/sterilisation. I also provide pre/post surgery psychotherapy.
Telephone Advice & Guidance
Whether you are a professional or an individual seeking support and guidance, I will provide you with:
- Information about specific mental health conditions.
- Informal discussion around your specific personal situation and provide you with tailored guidance and support.
- Support you in identifying and appropriately responding to your child, partner, family member, employee or colleague.
- Practical evidence based approaches to managing your own stress.
- Psychological assessments and reports
One-to-one telephone guidance sessions are practical and not therapeutic. They are charged at £135 per hour.
Therapy is charged at £135 per therapeutic hour and can be provided face-to-face at my clinic in Chichester, West Sussex or via Skype/Zoom.
Assessment and report writing is charged at £135 per assessment hour (includes face-to-face or Zoom assessment and writing time).
About Amy Stoddard-Ajayi(MSc, MBACP)
I have been trained in multiple psychological modalities and have in depth experience of working with adults and young people.
Over the years I have supported people with a broad range of psychological problems in NHS and specialist secondary care psychological settings.
Considered an expert in my field, I am the mental health lead for the Cambridge Medical Academy
based at Cambridge University's Biomedical campus. I am also a senior consultant to the NHS and private health sector where I am responsible for designing and developing mental health services.
Career and Technical Education
- MSc in Rational Emotive and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Post Graduate Certificate in Counselling Therapy
- BA (Hons) Anthropology and Communication
- Positive Psychology Coaching
- Executive Coaching
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for personality disorder, self harm and suicidal ideation
- CBT for chronic pain
- Mental health in trauma and migration
- Cultural adaptations in mental health
- Child and adolescent development
- CBT-I for insomnia
- Narrative Exposure Therapy for trauma
- Motivational interviewing for addiction/physical health problems
- Trauma Focused CBT
- Women's psychological health
- Managing Addiction
- Systemic Therapy for families and relationships
- Working with young people involved with gangs and violent crime
- Sexual exploitation and recovery
- Perinatal OCD
- Policy and practice in mental health settings
- Reducing Non-communicable disease in patients with mental health conditions
- Global mental health development
- The role of the diaspora in global mental health
- Mental Health Service Design and Development
Feedback from previous clients
“I have consulted Amy on a number of occasions for Ad-hoc advice and support including specific advice around the needs of my patients; CBT and other psychotherapeutic techniques that I can apply to my working approach; Information on specific mental health conditions; and professional guidance specifically around job applications and managerial issues. Amy is a wealth of expert knowledge that I have consistently used to improve my working practice and my career."
Sabina Challenger, Senior Mental Health Social Worker - Perinatal Mental Health Team, East London NHS Trust
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