Dr Nisha Gupta
Dr Gupta has been working as a qualified clinical psychologist for over 15 years. During this time, she has worked in a variety of specialisms – adult mental health, psychological therapies, primary care, forensic mental health, neuropsychology and an eating disorders unit. Having worked in a variety of settings across primary, secondary and tertiary levels of service provision including secure provision primarily in the NHS but also in voluntary and independent health settings.
Dr Gupta is a Full Member of the BPS Division of Neuropsychology and on the Specialist Registrar of Clinical Neuropsychology. She has undertaken numerous expert reports for the family courts, including assessing parental risk, quality of parent-child attachment, personality issues and capacity to change; civil courts including personal injury, trauma and neuropsychological difficulties; forensic matters including violence and sexual risk assessments. Having implemented a variety of psychological and psychometric tests for assessing the level and nature of clients’ presenting problems and evaluating therapeutic outcome. She has built upon knowledge and application of cognitive-behavioural, cognitive-analytical, narrative, systemic, psychodynamic and psychoanalytical approaches in clinical work by attending courses and seminars, and through peer, group and individual supervision.
With a vast experience of working with a broad spectrum of psychological difficulties necessitating the provision of both short-term and longer-term psychological services to adults with mental health problems. Presenting difficulties dealt with have included childhood sexual abuse, bereavement, depression, eating disorders, anxiety, phobias, OCD, PTSD and psychoses. She has an interest in working with people with psychological problems arising from issues related to personality, cognitive functioning, physical health, trauma, loss, cultural uprootment, gender and cultural identity. This interest has been cultivated over several years by living and working across the vastly differing metropolitan communities of London with its diverse ethnic, social, religious and cultural needs and orientations.
Profession: Psychologist
Courts or Tribunals: Criminal and Offending, Mental Health Tribunals, Personal Injury
Age groups: Adult, Family, Older Adult
Psychological Specialisms: Adult Mental Health Problems, Domestic Abuse, Forensic, Mental Capacity, Neurological Disorder, Parent-Child Attachment, Parenting Problems, Personality Disorder, Sexual Offending, Substance Misuse, Trauma and PTSD
Therapies offered: CBT, Cognitive Analytic Therapy, Psychodynamic, Schema Therapy
