Amy O’Gorman

Nurse Consultant

Amy has 15 years’ experience as a registered paediatric nurse. She has experience of working with young people with complex emotional and mental health needs across various setting, including community, outpatient, and inpatient settings.

In the past, Amy has been responsible for leading a nursing team that cares for young people aged up to 18 years with eating disorders and other associated difficulties in both in inpatient and intensive, community-based settings.

Amy has completed the MBT-A training programme at the Anna Freud Centre and an MSc in Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy at Birkbeck. She is experienced in providing individual therapeutic sessions, and therapeutic groups. Amy uses a number of different approaches to aid recovery for young people and their families’, such as psychodynamic theory, CBT and DBT principles, motivational interviewing, play therapy, with a solution-focused slant.

The treatment Amy implements centres on the young person as part of a family unit. As such, she works with young people and their carers from a systemic perspective that encourages their strengths and supports their relationships.

Amy has excellent counselling and therapeutic skills in working with children, young people and their parents. Within her therapeutic practice, she sees building a therapeutic relationship with a young person and their family as the essential element to allow therapeutic change to take place. Amy establishes this alliance through careful listening, genuine interest and positive regard for my client’s well-being.

She takes a collaborative approach, stressing the importance of being able to discuss openly difficult and at times conflicting feelings. Amy remains curious at all times, not being afraid to name painful and hateful feelings or ask questions that pose a challenge. She has developed a therapeutic style that is a thoughtful and careful balance of sensitivity, firmness, consistency, validation and play.

Marina Hilleary

December 9, 2024 No Comments

Dr Marina Hilleary is a Clinical Psychologist working in the NHS and private practice. She completed her BSc in Psychology at the University of Exeter, graduating with first-class honours and was subsequently awarded an MSc in Mental Health Studies and a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London.

Dr Hilleary has 9 years of clinical experience in various NHS mental health settings, her current position being on a Specialist Adolescent Team at a Community Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). She has a specialist interest in working with children, young people and their families and has worked with young people presenting with a wide range of difficulties including depression, low self-esteem, anxiety (specific phobias, GAD, social anxiety, separation anxiety, panic and OCD), PTSD, behaviours that challenge and additional neurodevelopmental needs.

Dr Hilleary is experienced in carrying out comprehensive psychological assessments (including cognitive assessments) and recognises the importance of working towards a shared understanding of the presenting difficulties to enable a positive therapeutic outcome. She draws on a range of evidence-based psychological therapies and models, including Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Mindfulness-Based approaches. In addition, Dr Hilleary utilises systemic family approaches when working with young people and their families.

Dr Hilleary adopts an integrative, compassionate and person-centred approach to engage young people, building their motivation to participate in decisions around their care plan and achieve their therapeutic goals. She works creatively with her clients and, where appropriate, alongside any of their important support systems.