Tailor, Freena
BA (hons), PGDip, MSc, PGCert
Company Name
FT Psychology Services Ltd
Qualifications
Work Experience:
2018 – Current: Freena currently works as Programme Director for two post-graduate programmes: PG Cert in CYP IAPT Supervision Course and PG Diploma in Senior Wellbeing Practitioner (SWP) Course. Freena delivers teaching to professionals training to work in children’s mental health services, specifically in relation to anxiety, low mood and parenting interventions, as well as training their clinical supervisors.
Previous Experience:
Clinical Director for an NHS commissioned Third-sector Children’s Mental Health Service in Bedfordshire.
Clinical Supervisor for PG Diploma in CYP IAPT Under 5s Practitioner’s, Bedford Borough Council
Senior Early Help CAMHS Clinician, East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT)
Early Help CAMHS Clinician, ELFT NHS
CAMHS Clinician, Lanarkshire NHS
Trainee Clinical Associate Psychologist, Greater Glasgow & Clyde NHS
Trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner Adult Service, Hertfordshire NHS
Assistant Psychologist, CAMHS, Staffordshire NHS & Assistant Psychologist, Psycho-Oncology Service, NHS
Previous work includes NSPCC Childline and Age UK.
Qualifications:
❇️ MSc in Applied Psychology for Children and Young People (BPS Accredited Programme) – University of Edinburgh
❇️ PG Diploma in Psychology – University of Nottingham
❇️ PG Certificate in Children and Young People’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP IAPT) Management and Leadership – University College London
❇️ BA (Hons) in English & Psychology – Birmingham City University
❇️ Executive Function Skills Coaching Level 2 – Connections in Mind Foundation
❇️ Executive Function Skills Coaching Level 1 – Connections in Mind Foundation
Further Training:
❇️ Cultural Competence – Nafsiyat Intercultural Therapy Centre’s CPD – 2022
❇️ Interculturality within the Supervisory Relationship – Nafsiyat Intercultural Therapy Centre’s CPD – 2021
❇️ CBT Strategies for working with Emotional Regulation and Self-Harm – Anna Freud Centre – 2020
❇️ Guided Parent-led CBT for Child Anxiety (Train the Trainer) – Cathy Creswell – 2020
❇️ ITSIEY Specialist: Reflective Supervision in Infant Mental Health (0-24 months): Holding the supervisee, child and family in mind – Anna Freud Centre – 2019
❇️ Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Essentials – ELFT NHS – 2017
❇️ DBT Skills Development Group – ELFT NHS – 2017
❇️ Wellbeing Ambassador Programme for Schools (Worth-It) – Train the Trainer – 2017
❇️ Enhanced Clinical Supervision Training – Anna Freud Centre – 2017
❇️ Adapting CBT for Children/ Adolescents with ASD: Training for Practitioners Experienced in CBT – NHS Education for Scotland (NES) – 2016
❇️ Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Children & Young People – Theory & Practice – University of Edinburgh – 2014
❇️ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy – University of Edinburgh – 2014
❇️ The Incredible Years® Parenting Programme – Webster-Stratton – 2014
❇️ Dina Dinosaur School The Incredible Years® Child Training Programme – Webster-Stratton – 2014
❇️ Triple P® Parenting Programme – 2014
❇️ Anxiety, Panic, Phobias, OCD, Stress and Worry
❇️ Attachment and Separation Anxiety
Therapies
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
ADHD Support and Executive Function Coaching
CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy)
Child and Adolescent Psychology
Conscious Uncoupling Coaching (TM)
DBT Dialectical Behavioural Therapy
Evidence-Based Parenting Approaches
Executive Function Coaching
SFT (Solution Focussed Therapy)
Trauma-Informed Therapy
About
Freena is a Clinical Associate in Applied Psychology (CAAP) and has over a decade of experience working with children, young people and families. She has been providing specialist services to support children, young people and their families, working primarily in NHS Specialist CAMHS services as well as the private and voluntary sector.
Freena also has extensive experience offering specialist mental health training, consultation and supervision to Social Care, Early Help and Education staff.
Freena specialises in offering assessments and interventions for a range of emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties. An example of some of the presentations I work with, include the following:
❇️ Anxiety, Panic, Phobias, OCD, Stress and Worry
❇️ Attachment and Separation Anxiety
❇️ Depression and Low Mood
❇️ Difficulties regulating feelings such as anger
❇️ Behaviours that challenge
❇️ Sleep Difficulties
❇️ Exam Stress
❇️ Toileting Difficulties
❇️ Understanding Healthy Relationships
❇️ Low Self-Esteem and Confidence
❇️ Bullying and Academic Difficulties
❇️ Executive Function/ ADHD Difficulties
❇️ Procrastination
❇️ Life Transitions
❇️ Professional/ Career Issues
❇️ Grief, Loss, or Bereavement
❇️ Other Issues/ difficulties
Freena is also qualified as an Executive Function Coach, which supports the development and strengthening of Executive Function Skills, particularly helpful for neuro-diverse children, adolescents and adults. Coaching focuses on supporting individuals to improve executive function skills such as task initiation, planning, prioritising, time management, organisation, emotional regulation and metacognition.
Alongside private practice, Freena currently works as the Programme Director for two post-graduate professional training programmes at one of the UK’s top universities. She delivers teaching to professionals training to work in children’s mental health services, as well as training their clinical supervisors.
