DR GRAHAM WILLIAMS

Dr Graham Williams is a clinical psychologist from the United Kingdom. He has over 20 years’ experience in mental health services in the British National Health Service (NHS) and is a highly versatile clinician experienced in working with children, young people (CYP) and adults.

After qualifying as a clinical psychologist from the University of Hertfordshire in 2008, Dr Williams spent the following twelve years in specialist child and adolescent mental health services. Working with CYP from the local, multicultural region as well as refugees from international cultures, he gained extensive clinical experience working with the full range of mental health problems, including, depression and all forms of anxiety. He developed special clinical interests in developmental and complex trauma as well as the psychological impact on CYP of long-term medical conditions. As a senior psychologist Dr Williams was the service lead for trauma working clinically and providing trauma training and education to staff teams in medical and educational settings. Working in a specialist CAMHS also required working with parents and families and within wider clinical systems in order to ensure safe and effective outcomes.

Dr Williams also has specific experience working with neurodevelopmental, cognitive and attachment difficulties and has extensive knowledge and skills in risk assessment and risk management. He has expertise in assessment of psychological and emotional difficulties and is trained in multiple therapies, including CBT, DBT and EMDR. While guided by research and the evidence base he also allows and encourages scope for creativity in working with clients to maximise positive outcomes. In addition to direct and indirect work with children and families, he co-facilitates treatment groups.

Having trained as a clinical supervisor with the Oxford Doctorate in Clinical Psychology training programme he supervised colleagues and continues to provide consultation and supervision to other professional groups.

More recently, Dr Williams has worked in a number of other specialist services in the NHS; conducting assessments and psychological interventions of adults with changes in mental health and cognitive status as a consequence of contracting COVID-19; he concurrently worked in general paediatrics at a large, regional children’s hospital with those affected psychologically by medical conditions.

Prior to leaving the UK, Dr Williams divided his time between specialist maternity-related psychology services in the NHS and reporting to the English Courts as an Independent Expert Witness with those involved in the Family Court system.