Hamish is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist who has been working with parents, carers, children and young people since 2009. Prior to joining the team at Beacon House, he held positions within specialist child and adolescent teams in Australia and in the UK.

Hamish has experience supporting families with a wide range of mental health concerns including anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress reactions, OCD, neurodevelopmental conditions (ADHD and ASC), chronic pain, psychosis, and complex trauma. In addition to his roles within child and adolescent mental health services, Hamish has previously worked in an adult mental health team, an organisation supporting refugees and asylum seekers, a telephone crisis line and a family support team.

When working with families, Hamish first seeks to develop a shared understanding of the concerns they bring to therapy, as well as agreeing on the goals and tasks of the work. In the context of a safe therapeutic relationship, children, young people and their families are able to reconnect with their own capacities and strengths, as well as make use of ideas, practices and skills from evidence-based treatments. Hamish’s aim is to help families create and sustain the conditions which allow children and young people to recover and thrive. To this end, while he often offers a confidential therapeutic space for young people, Hamish sees his role as involving parents and other supportive adults wherever possible.

Hamish draws on a range of therapeutic models in his work with families, including Mentalization-Based Treatment, Attachment-Focussed Family Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), Trauma-Focussed Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. He also has an interest in practices that integrate psychotherapy with contemporary knowledge about the brain.

Hamish is registered as a Clinical Psychologist with the UK Health and Care Professions Council (registration number PYL33168) and is a Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society (member number 431819).

  • Clinical Psychology Registrar Program
    2-year programme of post-qualification supervised practice and training leading to endorsement as a Clinical Psychologist, completed at St George Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service; Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency /,St George CAMHS, Sydney, Australia, Jan 2014 – Jan 2016
  • Master of Clinical Psychology
    2-year clinical training program leading to registration as a practitioner psychologist; University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia, Feb 2012 – Dec 2013
  • Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) Honours
    1-year research degree satisfying requirements to enter clinical psychology training; Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, Feb – Dec 2011
  • Graduate Diploma in Psychology
    3-year undergraduate psychology course; Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 2008-2010
  • Graduate Diploma of Counselling
    Counselling diploma completed at the Australian College of Applied Psychology, Sydney, Australia, 2007-2010
  • Bachelor of Arts (Languages): History and French Studies
    Sydney University, Sydney, Australia and University of Provence Aix-Marseille I, Aix-en-Provence, France, 2003-2007