Dr Rob Agnew

Hey, thanks for reading my profile. I have worked in over 40 services in the NHS, private and voluntary/charitable sectors. Having qualified from UCL in 2008 as a clinical psychologist, I have spent the last 17 years working in brain injury, specialist adolescent forensics, psychiatry, autism, ADHD, neuropsychiatry, challenging behaviour/neurobehaviour, OCD/BDD and deliberate self harm/personality services. I'm formerly an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and sat as Chair of their Section of Sexualities until 2024. I was also a member of their Practice Guidelines Review Group and the Mental Capacity Advisory Group. I have undertaken high profile medico-legal cases since 2012 and am a listed expert on the General Medical Council's rosta of experts. Clinically I specialise in neurodiversity and neuroaffirmative practice (ADHD and autism), fatigue, work performance, complex or treatment resistant OCD, BDD, anxiety, perfectionism and head injury/neuropsychology. I see both individuals and couples, and I work online only using Zoom. I offer diagnosis for autism and ADHD, and I have a prescription partnership with a provider that prioritises my referrals and can usually begin meds within 2 to 3 weeks. Where I feel it may be effective I do also see adolescents, children and families. I tend not to offer diagnosis to children as I believe that a child, who is still acquiring and developing skills at highly varying rate, should be assessed by a full multidisciplinary team. This is usually an expense beyond even the most well resourced parents, and the NHS is an expert organisation in this type of provision. Recently I have contributed a chapter 'Queering Neuropsychology' to the text book 'Systemic Approaches to Brain Injury Treatment: Navigating Contemporary Practice' (Routledge, 2022) and contributed to British Psychological Society media and publications. I am currently writing two other chapters on ADHD and gender and sexuality diversity for psychology text books. I frequently teach in university masters and doctoral students in CBT and counselling psychology, and on undergraduate psychology courses. As a gay cis-gender man, and a proud trans, non-binary and intersex ally, I interact regularly with the LGTBQ+ communities. Last summer (2024) I founded the Psychological Society for Inclusive Intersectional and Queer Communities (PSIIQC) and I have been building a psychological society that understands the risks of being a publicly accessible LGBTQ+ professional with a great team of co-founders. I support the decolonising psychology movement, and I have adjacent interests in the intersections of empiricism, epistemology, social constructionism, politics, sociology, anthropology, religion and psychology. I am a trained singer and am training to be a singing teacher, and I am a countertenor/upper tenor in the London Gay Men's Chorus. I offer a free introductory Zoom call for 15 minutes if you're thinking of doing some work with me. I'm quite informal, and I think I do well with people who are nervous of therapy or who might not have had great experiences, who are embarrassed or who have unusual issues that cause them shame. I have a profile on Doctify which can be found at https://www.doctify.com/uk/specialist/dr-rob-agnew