Nicola Gorringe

Nicola Gorringe - Clinical Psychologist

Chartered and HCPC Registered Clinical Psychologist (MSc. Clin. Psy. C.Psychol). Nicola is a registered Clinical psychologist with over 15 years experience working with children and families in the NHS.

Key Experience:

• Until the start of 2014 Nicola has worked in CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) in Lincolnshire, York, London and most recently Hemel Hempstead.

• Nicola has additional training and many years experience as a Cognitive Behaviour Therapist working with children suffering from anxiety (panic, OCD, social phobia, phobia, generalised anxiety), low mood, low self-esteem and anger problems.

• Nicola has been a guest lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire Clinical Psychology Doctoral Training Course teaching Cognitive Behaviour Therapy with Children.

• Nicola has a number of years experience working in the field of chronic pain and chronic fatigue.

• Nicola has also been the lead clinician in a service for children with learning disabilities, autism spectrum disorders and challenging behaviour, aimed at helping families to understand and manage the very complex challenges that their children may present.

Nicola Gorringe’s Special Interests:

• Helping children and adolescents with a wide range of difficulties; including anxiety, low mood, anger and low self-esteem

• Working with children and adolescents with ASD

• Working with children and adolescents with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

• Attachment and Social Learning models of child development.

• Nicola is particularly interested in understanding the emotional reasons underlying children’s difficulties.

• Nicola aims to support children and their parents to develop the warm, responsive and positive relationships that provide the foundation for self-esteem and emotional wellbeing from infancy through to adolescence.