People

Other CAST Associates include…

Sarah Blainey – Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL)

Gail Burrell – Deputy Director, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL)

Agnes Kocsis – Consultant Clinical Health Psychologist, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Jim O’Donnell – Assistant Director of Nursing (Jameson division), Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL)

Samuel Owiredu – Senior Business and Commercial Manager (Jameson division), Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL)

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Ankita Guchait

Ankita Guchait is an Assistant Psychologist for CAST who has been majorly involved with the Afghan Evacuees project.

Ankita has experience providing mental health services to children and adolescents with anxiety, autism, epilepsy, and trauma. Prior to working in the NHS, she has worked in different countries including the USA, India, and Russia.

She is interested in understanding the stigma aspect when delivering mental health services to a diverse population and is passionate about empowering women and helping refugees and asylum seekers rebuild their lives in a foreign country.

Ingrid Wagendorp

Ingrid Wagendorp is a Psychological Therapist for CAST and the Employee Trauma Service, providing treatment for employees who have experienced traumatic events through their line of work.

Ingrid has 8 years’ experience of working in the NHS. She has worked as a CBT therapist in various IAPT services as well as within a specialist eating disorder service.

Prior to working for the NHS, Ingrid worked for various charities including Victim Support, The Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners Trust, and Voice (now Barnados).

Ingrid has experience of providing psychoeducational groups in prison settings and helped to set up a peer support programme to support the provision of drug and alcohol rehabilitation services within prison. Ingrid also has experience of providing advocacy services for young people in custody and those impacted by the criminal justice system.

Sian Williams

Dr Sian Williams is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist and Senior Psychological Therapist for CAST, registered with the HCPC.

Sian has experience with individuals living with anxiety, depression, OCD, psychosis, trauma, autism, chronic pain cancer and more.

Sian has worked in the NHS, the charity sector, at King’s College London and in family therapy. She has published a book and many articles on how to manage anxiety, stress and recover from traumatic experiences and also has a podcast: ‘Mind Matters with Dr Sian’.

Camillia Achouche

Camillia Achouche is a senior mental health nurse with over 10 years of experience within the nursing profession. Camillia has worked in inpatient and community mental health settings and currently works for the Grenfell Health & Wellbeing Service.

Camillia is a Florence Nightingale Foundation nurse and completed a leadership scholarship, which opened her eyes to new ways of working across the wider system to improve outcomes for patients. She won an award for innovation whilst leading on a Quality Improvement project to reduce client disengagement from services within the Grenfell Outreach Team.

Camillia’s interests include preventative healthcare, early interventions, and innovative ways of working, as well as the retention and development of junior staff. She enjoys mentoring student nurses and hopes to inspire future generations of nurses entering the workforce.

Lucy Cook

Lucy Cook is a Clinical Occupational Therapist and experienced NHS service manager who has worked in the health sector for over 25 years. Lucy is an innovative leader focused on system-wide learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Lucy has extensive expertise in delivering transformational change whilst working in partnership with a range of voluntary, community, educational and healthcare providers to produce evidence-based results – all improving quality and supporting patient care.

Lucy is committed to working to the principles of co-production, nurturing the strengths of every individual, maintaining the strong belief that in working with others as part of an open culture and collaborative approach the best possible results are to be achieved.

Farrah Hassan

Farrah Hassan is a senior social worker with extensive experience in health and social care services. Farrah started her social work career in statutory children’s services before moving into adult social care and palliative care services.

Since 2017 Farrah has worked at the Grenfell Health & Wellbeing Service, coordinating their outreach mental health screening programme and delivering bespoke support for survivors of the fire and bereaved family members.

Farrah is particularly interested in working within developing countries. She has participated in programmes in Somalia to deliver mental health training and evidenced based practice, as well as advising on service improvements. Farrah is also linked with CNWL’s International Health Care Partnership and has delivered training to mental health professionals in Tanzania. Farrah is a passionate advocate for improving accessibility and equality in healthcare.

Faye Nikopaschos

Dr Faye Nikopaschos is a Clinical Psychologist with specialist interests and expertise in working with people affected by trauma.  

Faye has worked in NHS psychology services since 2011 and has experience of working in specialist trauma services both with the NHS and charity sector. 

Faye currently leads the acute psychology service at Northwick Park Mental Health Unit in Harrow.  She is also the Trauma-Informed Approaches (TIA) co-lead for acute mental health services in CNWL.  For more information on the CNWL TIA project please see: https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/services/mental-health-services/cnwl-trauma-informed-approaches-tia

Michael Worrell

Dr Michael Worrell is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with over 25 years of experience in the NHS and other settings, and is the Director of Training at the London CBT Training Centre – a large programme for the training of CBT therapists and couples therapists.

Michael specialises in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for individuals and couples. He is an Associate Fellow with the British Psychological Society, and is Visiting Professor at Regent’s University London School of Psychotherapy & Psychology.

Michael presents at national and international conferences and is an author in peer-reviewed journals and books, with publications including Cognitive Behavioural Couple Therapy: Distinctive Features (2015, Routledge).

His interests include anxiety and mood disorders; work-related stress; couple distress and relationship problems; and trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Kerry Young

Dr Kerry Young is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Lead of the Woodfield Trauma Service in London – a leading centre for the treatment of asylum seekers and refugees suffering from PTSD. Kerry is also a clinician at the Oxford Rose Clinic, a service for the medical and psychological treatment of women who have experienced Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).

Kerry specializes in training, having advised national bodies in the UK on how to train clinicians to work with refugees, PTSD and Complex PTSD, and trains nationally and internationally on how to treat them. Kerry also trained the therapists in the NHS Grenfell Health & Wellbeing Service to work with PTSD.

Kerry works with research teams in Oxford University, Sweden, Germany, Iceland and The Netherlands on developing imagery-based interventions for PTSD, Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia, and has published in this area.