Lisa McMahon

• Administering psychological assessments: developmental and cognitive assessment, mental health assessment, autism, ADHD diagnosis
• Developing and delivering parent and teacher training programmes and workshops (Emotional regulation, managing anxiety, preparing transition to secondary school, supporting your child around their diagnosis, supporting siblings, etc)
• Facilitating parent groups (post diagnostic, Early Bird, Parents Plus, Restrictive eating, supporting transitions),
• Designing and delivering child/parent therapeutic groups (anxiety, building emotional resilience, Being Me/neurodivergent-affirming groups),
• Assessment of mental health difficulties, carrying out risk assessments, providing individual therapy sessions for young people with mental health difficulties
• Supporting parents through crises
• Facilitating psychology advice clinic sessions with parents of active and children on waitlist, signposting to other services
• Supporting children in school; consultation with school teams, outreach workshops, supporting learning goals, positive behaviour support
• Supervision of staff grade psychologists, trainee clinical psychologists, assistant psychologists
• Consulting with management and providing feedback on new policy documents
• Developing intervention pathways for multidisclipinary team (diagnostic assessments, emotional regulation and mental health, transition to school)
• continual collaboration with multidisciplinary teams

Prior to my current role, I worked for 8 years on the Early Services team on a team supporting children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. My responsibilities included the following:

• Supporting children to be included in mainstream schools; consultation with families and school teams and preschools. Advising and consulting on strategies to support the child's educational, development needs within the school environment
• Parent consultation, advice clinics and brief counselling, parent-training and post-diagnostic support
• Carried out comprehensive behavioural assessments and developed positive behaviour support plans for children with complex behavioural presentations
• Parents Plus, EarlyBird), family support through individual sessions and groups working on solution-focused strategies for promoting child development and positive behaviour support strategies
• Psychological assessments; cognitive, autism diagnosis, Assessment of Need
• Consultative role with teachers and parents, speech and language therapists, special needs assistants, occupational therapists
• Attended frequent multidisciplinary meetings to inform interventions interventions

• Company Overview: MAS Envol is a service for young adults presenting with autism. As the team psychologist (part-time post) , I had the following responsibilities:
• Consulting and advising support care-staff on developing educational programmes and functional life skills
• Conducting comprehensive behavioural assessments and develop positive behavior support programmes,
• Providing parent training (low arousal approaches to supporting young adults, supporting development of communication, development of life-skills, managing complex behavioural difficulties and sensory processing differences

• Company Overview: Private clinic in Paris
• I worked in this private practice with other mental health professionals
• I worked with children and young adults the therapeutic approach was an integrated one with a strong focus on cognitive and behavioural models but also drawing on more psychodynamic approaches
• Working with the children and teenagers involved the following:
• Supporting children with anxiety
• Supporting development of emotional regulation strategies
• Social-skills training
• Parent-support and family work to improve communication within the family, re-establishing appropriate boundaries, developing parenting skills, psycho-educational and behavioural programmes, supporting parent’s self-care and coping strategies
• Private clinic in Paris