Psychologists

Consultant Perinatal Psychologist, BSc, MSc, CPsychol, AFBPsS Julianne is the Clinical Director and Founder of the Parenthood In Mind practice and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. She is a passionate and highly experienced perinatal psychologist who has worked for over 23 years in the NHS and private practice with parents and parents-to-be and their babies (and bumps) who have needed support with a wide variety of perinatal mental health issues during and after pregnancy, miscarriage, stillbirth and reproductive loss, attachment issues, re-emergence of childhood issues and couples issues.

From 2003 to 2009, she was part of an NHS multidisciplinary strategic health team that successfully established Sure Start services in East London. From 2009 to 2015, she held multiple clinical lead roles in Perinatal Mental Health in the NHS, and currently works as a consultant to specialist teams across the UK in Maternal Mental Health, Neonatal Care and Perinatal Trauma and Loss.

Julianne is a member of the Birth Trauma Association and specialises in working therapeutically with birth and fertility trauma, PTSD and tokophobia (fear of giving birth) as they impact the mother, couple relationship and parent-infant attachment. In addition, she is also affiliated with BICA (British Infertility Counselling Association) and offers tailored psychological interventions for individuals and couples (including same sex couples) who are trying to conceive or pregnant and parenting following ART (IVF, ICSI, donor conception, surrogacy) or adoption. She also writes and lectures on these issues, and contributes regularly to press articles in The Telegraph, Daily Mail and Guardian on parenting and parental mental health. She has appeared on BBC4 Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio 5 and Channel 5 to offer expert opinion on mothering after bereavement, infertility and donor conception, and postnatal depression. She also works in partnership with organisations such as Fertility Matters at Work and Fertifa affecting changes in the workplace in areas of fertility, mental health, pregnancy, birth and parenting.

She has over 20 years’ experience teaching and training psychologists and health professionals on issues of parental mental health, attachment, early years and positive mental health for babies and young children.