Dr Jasbir Dhillon
Dr Jasbir Dillon has over ten years of experience working with children, adolescents and adults. She has worked in specialist children and adolescent services, assessing and offering therapeutic intervention to children, adolescents, foster carers and parents. Additionally, she has worked in an NHS service specifically offering court assessments within PLO and care proceedings. Jas has worked with families with CIN and CP status, undergoing care proceedings, looked after children, as well as working with children, adolescents and families within community and specialist social care and educational settings (e.g. children’s centres, youth offending services, pupil referral units, CAMHS for social care services). Jas has also worked with adults within specialist health settings, assessing and offering therapy to adults with neurological difficulties, substance use, adjustment disorder, mental health difficulties and with complex social care needs (e.g. immigration and asylum, homelessness).
Jas is passionate about working with people with experiences of complex and acute trauma across the lifespan. Her interventions are guided by the NICE guidelines, integrated with practice-based evidence and theoretical developments within trauma work (e.g. polyvagal theory, somatic interventions, Internal Family Systems). She is trained in Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (level one), Dialectical Behavioural Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, Schema Therapy, and Trauma Focused Cognitive behavioural Therapy. Jas is also a Non-Violent Resistance practitioner, and has offered group and individual work.
Areas of specialism
- Assessment of children and adolescents
- Assessment of challenging behaviours in children and adolescents with intellectual disability
- Cognitive and adaptive functioning assessments of children and adolescents
- Psychological therapy for child and adolescents
- Looked after children
- Asylum seekers and Refugees
- Developmental trauma/C-PTSD
- Psychological assessments of adults
- Psychological assessments of parents
- Cognitive and adaptive functioning assessment of adults
- Psychological therapy for adults
- Professional consultation (children’s social care)
Profession: Psychologist
Courts or Tribunals: Family Court, Immigration and Asylum, Personal Injury
Age groups: Adolescent, Adult, Child, Family
Psychological Specialisms: Adult Mental Health Problems, Behavioural Difficulties, Child Mental Health, Learning Difficulties, Mental Capacity, Substance Misuse, Trauma and PTSD
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