Dr Elizabeth Kilbey is a consultant clinical psychologist with over 20 years of working in specialist neuro developmental services and with children with complex presentations. She has worked in the NHS and the private sector and across health, education and social care settings. She began her career working at great Ormond Street hospital, which provided her with invaluable experience and foundation knowledge in the complexity of children’s developmental profiles. Talk to Kilbey specialises in undertaking differential diagnostic assessments for autism, ADHD, learning difficulties and mental health presentations. Dr Kilbey is specialist in undertaking assessments across the lifespan and is able to offer diagnostic assessments for adults and children. Dr Kilbey is also a highly regarded medical legal expert often called upon by the courts to undertake complex assessments with children with trauma attachment histories and those presenting with substantial behavioural challenges that could be masking their underlying developmental profile. Talk to Kilbey has experience of undertaking assessments with children who are adopted and those within the looked after children system.
Experience:
consultant clinical psychologist, manager and clinical lead for adult autism and ADHD assessment services, OxleasNHS foundation trust
Lead clinical psychologist, camhs neurodevelopmental services across two different boroughs , Oxleas NHS trust
10+ years experience working as a single instructed expert in the family courts conducting complex family assessments including assessments of attachment and parenting.
Media experience Dr Kilbey is a leading child development and parenting expert with 10 years experience of working in the media. She has appeared on several TV series including the secret life of 45 and six-year-olds as a developmental expert. She is also produced a Ted X talk at the Central School of speech and drama on the topic of parenting in the digital age and has authored a book titled unplugged parenting released in 2017.
Qualifications:
BSC psychology and sport science
Foundation certificate in family and systemic therapy
MSc in child development
Clin psych doctorate in clinical psychology
MA organisational consultancy, psychodynamic and systemic approaches