Dr Tom Cawthorne, Child & Adolescent Psychologist
As a psychologist, Dr Tom Cawthorne works with children, adolescents and young people at The Soke clinic in Chelsea. He provides complex multidisciplinary assessments of young people’s mental health difficulties within the context of their attachment and trauma history, and chronic physical health diagnosis.
With a specialist focus on neurodevelopmental conditions including autism and ADHD, Tom conducts diagnostic neurodevelopmental and neurocognitive assessments. Following assessment, Tom continues to work with his clients, providing adapted psychological interventions for the co-occurring mental health problems commonly experienced by young people with neurodevelopmental conditions, including tics, Tourette’s and OCD. His personalised, evidence-based interventions include Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Mentalisation-Based Therapy (MBT), family therapy and parent training.
Tom also supports young people with anorexia, providing CBT for anxiety, Family Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa and therapeutic meal support.
Tom is currently Senior Clinical Psychologist in the Adoption and Fostering Clinic at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. He also provides psychology services at the Mind and Body clinic at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, and works as an MBT-F trainer at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families.
Tom trained in Psychology and Psychopathology at Durham University and Royal Holloway University of London. He is an HCPC registered Clinical Psychologist and BABCP accredited Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist.
Specialisms
Autism
ADHD
Neurodevelopmental & neurocognitive conditions
OCD
Eating Disorders
Attachment & Trauma
Chronic physical health diagnoses
Anxiety
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Eating Disorders (CBT-E)
Metallisation-Based Therapy (MBT)
Radically Open Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (RO DBT)
Family Therapy
Family Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa