WHO ARE WE
Dr Maria Jalmbrant, D.Clin.Psy. HCPC-reg Clinical Psychologist
Dr Jalmbrant started working with adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders as an Assistant Psychologist in 2002 as she came across a number of individuals within the Learning Disability Service who did not fit the traditional Learning Disability profile. After completing her D.Clin.Psy. at Royal Holloway University of London, she worked in general adult mental health at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, where she developed a special interest in diagnosing supporting adults with ASD as she found their needs were often misunderstood in the generic mental health service. After a short career break in research, she was keen to further her skills in the Neurodevelopmental area and went to work the National Adult Neurodevelopmental Service at the Bethlem Royal Hospital and the Maudsley Hospital in 2010. She was then given the opportunity to set up one of the first community-based psychology service specifically for adults with ASD and ADHD in Lewisham in 2012, which she ran until 2018. Here she developed a service model that seemed to provide most effective support to these client groups, by offering a range of individual or family therapeutic support or delivering intense psychological interventions with the help of trainee psychologists and assistant psychologists who were closely supervised.
Dr Anna Norris, D.Clin.Psy. HCPC-reg Clinical Psychologist
Dr Norris is registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC).  She is also a Chartered Psychologist with, and an Associate Fellow of, the British Psychological Society (BPS). After completing her D.Clin.Psy. at Lancaster University, she has worked in several NHS services and settings over the years, working directly with clients with longstanding difficulties, in addition to offering consultation, supervision and training. She has experience of working with a wide range of presenting difficulties, including anxiety, burnout and work-related stress, depression, low self-esteem, emotion regulation difficulties, trauma and PTSD, relationship difficulties and ADHD. She has experienced the value of using a range of different therapeutic approaches (which are evidence-based), tending to integrate these as and when needed (so that these are tailored to an individual’s needs). She has undertaken training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) (including adapted CBT for ADHD), Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).
