Meet the Educational Psychologists

Rob is a Consultant Educational Psychologist and HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist. He has 14 years experience of working as an Educational Psychologist and Senior Educational Psychologist at Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes Local Authorities. Before training as a psychologist, Rob was a deputy headteacher at school for children with emotional, behaviour and social difficulties.

Rob is a member of the British Psychological Society including the ‘Division of Educational and Child Psychology’ and the ‘Special interest Group in Coaching Psychology.’

Rob is a Founder of Psychology4Learning, and is able to provide professional support to P4L Educational Psychologists.

Claire manages the sales, marketing, finance and customer service elements of Psychology4Learning. She deals with customer queries and coordinates work with the Educational Pyschologists.

Claire has 10 years experience of working in the public sector, with roles in both the NHS and Local Authorities, managing the business side of clinical services.

Before working in the Public sector, Claire worked in international technology companies, developing and managing strategic marketing programmes.

Sangeeta has more than fourteen years experience working for several local educational authorities, the last eight years working on yearly or shorter term contracts employed by schools and local authorities as an independent consultant educational psychologist. Sangeeta is an Associate Educational Psychologist with P4L.

She completed a doctorate in Educational Psychology (April 2010) and her thesis area focused on strengthening parental contributions to school readiness and early childhood learning. Sangeeta originally trained as a primary school teacher and has specialised experience with the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), Key Stage 1 (KS1) and Key Stage 2 (KS2).

Hester is an experienced Educational Psychologist skilled in Coaching, Educational Psychology, Attachment Theory, Psychological Assessment, and Learning Disabilities. She is a strong healthcare services professional with a Doctor of Professional Educational, Child and Adolescent Psychology focused in Educational Psychology from The Institute of Education, University of London.

Dr Julia Crane is a Chartered Educational Psychologist, registered with the both the HCPC and BPS. With over 20 years experience including a background in university teaching and assessment on both Masters and Doctorate level training programmes. Julia is also an accredited Video Interaction Guidance practitioner and trainee supervisor. Julia conducts privately commissioned Educational Psychology assessments, training and tailored individual/group interventions for schools and parents/carers. This includes out assessment work with children and adults to identify specific learning difficulties and more complex SEN, poviding expert witness advice for SEND tribunals, giving evidence for examination concessions, and providing supporting evidence for university students who are applying for Disabled Students’ Allowance.

Clare is an experienced Educational Psychologist (EP) who qualified in 2010 after completing the professional training doctorate at the University of Nottingham. Clare has 15 years’ experience of working as a Senior, Maingrade, Trainee and Assistant EP within local authorities in the East of England and East Midlands regions. She enjoys working with children and young people across the age range and with a variety of needs, but has a particular interest in promoting social and emotional wellbeing in schools. Clare’s doctoral research focused on the impact of small group interventions on children’s social and emotional development, and she later went on to become involved with local authority project work around Targeted Mental Health in Schools and Wellbeing for Education Return. Clare has also worked as a primary school teacher and play worker.

Deb has over 20 years’ experience working as an Educational Psychologist in Local Authority schools and Academies. Her interests are children’s confidence and learning, especially in maths. After teaching she did a Masters in Educational Psychology at Exeter, and then a doctorate in Educational Psychology at UCL.