Dr Beth Galliver is a Chartered Consultant Clinical Psychologist, registered with the British Psychological Society (BPS) and the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). She has extensive experience of working with individuals who present with a range of problems including mental health difficulties, neurodevelopmental disorders, learning disability, trauma, attachment difficulties and offending behaviours.

Dr Galliver qualified as a Clinical Psychologist in 2000. She has also completed Foundation and Level 1 training in Systemic Family Therapy. In addition, she has undertaken training in Non-Violent Resistance Therapy, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, Attachment Narrative Therapy and Trauma-Informed Recovery. She has also undertaken empirical research into the perception of biomechanical motion in children with Autism that was presented at the 11th World Congress of the International Association of the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities.

Prior to qualification, she worked in a number of therapeutic roles within mental health settings with adults, older adults, children and those with learning disabilities. For the last 20 years, Dr Galliver has specialised in working with children, young people and their families, holding substantive posts within the NHS in the fields of child and adolescent mental health and youth justice. She currently leads a team of mental health professionals within a Youth Justice Service.

Dr Galliver has specialist expertise in providing complex psychological assessment and formulation andintervention to children, young people and their families with a wide range of mental health problems. She also has specialist skills in the risk assessment of offending behaviours, including violence and sexually harmful behaviour, safeguarding and child exploitation. In addition, Dr Galliver has significant experience ofproviding trauma-informed therapeutic interventions.

Dr Galliver has extensive experience of providing supervision and consultation to mental health professionals as well as to other multiagency staff and to the Local Authority. In addition, Dr Galliver has experience of administering a considerable range of psychometric and neuropsychological assessments to advise on a significant range of issues. Dr Galliver offers specialist placements and mentoring to Trainee Clinical Psychologists.

Dr Galliver currently offers psychological assessments of young people and families to include offending behaviour, risk to self (self-harm, suicide, vulnerability, and exploitation), risk to others (including violence and sexual offending), intellectual and memory functioning and neuropsychological assessment. DrGalliver provides psychological assessments of children and young people for the Family Court and her reports include psychological formulations and consideration of issues such as risk, emerging personality, attachment as well as contact, care and therapeutic needs.