Sarah Chaplin,

Clinical psychologist

I engage in holistic, integrative, high quality and thorough clinical work that is individual-centred and evidence-based.

I have worked throughout my career with young people, support workers/ carers and their families, supporting them through challenging periods. Working with children and young people who have experienced childhood trauma and abuse is one of my passions and specialisms.

Through my work with foster parents, carers, residential staff and young people I have expanded my expertise in this area.

Sarah Chaplin carrying out a clinical assessment

My education

• 2011
  Registered Psychologist status The Psychology Board of Australia, Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency
• 2008
  Provisional Psychologist status The Psychology Board of Australia, Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency
• 2005
  Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology (including dissertation) Macquarie University, Australia
• 2004
  Bachelor of Arts, Psychology Macquarie University, Australia

My work history

• 2017
  Clinical psychologist HSR Psychology
• 2017
  Clinical psychologist Private
• 2016
  Programme supervisor Charity
• 2014
  Senior clinical consultant Children’s services
• 2012
  Psychologist Private
• 2011
  Locum senior clinical consultant Community justice programme
• 2009
  Intern psychologist Private
• 2008
  Caseworker Children’s services
• 2007
  Senior behaviour therapist Private
• 2007
  Senior applied behaviour analysis (ABA) therapist Independent
• 2004
  Applied behaviour analysis (ABA) and verbal behaviour therapist Independent
• 2003
  SEND camp counsellor Private

My experience

Through my various roles I have the following specialisms:

• Adolescent/ adult mental health
• Child development
• Challenging behaviour: self harm, aggression, and offending behaviour
• Positive behaviour support
• Looked after children/ young people in foster care, kinship, family and residential (secure & community) settings
• Treatment foster care
• Residential care
• Transitions - e.g. mainstream school, return to biological parents care
• Attachment
• Systemic family therapy
• Counselling/ 1:1 Therapy (e.g. non directive art and sand tray interventions; behavioural approaches - DBT, CBT; humanistic and trauma specific interventions/ strategies)
• Edge of exclusion
• Emotional regulation
• Critical incidents
• Clinical consultancy, training and supervision
• Childhood trauma: related theories and intervention models
• Multi-agency collaboration and partnerships
• Community/ school (re) integration
• Complex child, adolescent and adult cases
• Developmental disorders
• Clinical consultancy
• Systemic application of dialectical behaviour therapy/ borderline personality disorder

I take an individual-centred approach to my role as a clinical psychologist, which helps me to provide the most appropriate support for each individual so they can be happy, safe and ready for life’s challenges.

My professional memberships

Graduate Member, British Psychological Society

General Member of the Division of Clinical Psychology, British Psychological Society

Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) - PYL31750

Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA); Psychology Board of Australia - PSY0001647614

Needs identification

As a qualified and experienced clinical psychologist I can identify needs and support interventions for the following areas:

• Developmental delay
• Learning difficulties
• Self-harm
• Social communication difficulties/autistic spectrum condition
• Attention difficulties
• Mental health difficulties
• Attachment difficulties
• Adjustment difficulties
• Anxiety
• Trauma

I also provide diagnostic follow up services to address identified needs, including interventions.