Welcome to Aspire

Dr Day (she/hers) specialises in Clinical Neuropsychology with a particular expertise and passion for working with children and adults with neurodevelopmental conditions (e.g. autism, ADHD, intellectual disability, genetic and chromosomal variations). She also works with those with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) e.g. following a head injury; and Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) e.g. due to epilepsy, stroke, tumour or neurodegenerative disease such as the dementias.

She is trained in a wide range of neuropsychological assessment batteries and provides comprehensive care-planning and interventions for trauma and attachment-building and/or healing, mental wellbeing, cognitive rehabilitation and cognitive stimulation; in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team. She is a Registered Expert Witness and provides a range of legal and social care assessments (for example, Mental Capacity Assessment, risk for Harmful Sexual Behaviours, Parenting Capacity for parents with intellectual disability). 

Therapeutically Dr Day works in a trauma- and attachment-informed framework and is trained in various modalities such as disability psychotherapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy;  Clinical Hypnosis, and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP). She is a Certified Theraplay®Practitioner and Trainer (Theraplay attachment-based therapy)  and is currently completing a Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Neuropsychology. 

Dr Day has over 25 years of clinical experience working cross-culturally initially in the UK and then Cayman for the last 13 years; she continues to learn and develop through the privilege of working with each and every client. Her approach to mental health is that emotional distress presenting as ‘symptoms’ is an understandable and normal response to abnormal, extraordinary life experiences.  As an individual and a parent, she has grown through first hand experience of adverse childhood experiences, birth trauma, premature birth, neurodivergence and surviving cancer.

Dr Day's passion is to advocate for and provide a voice to those who have limited voices in our society, and to engage in proactive, preventative work to build resiliency, reduce risk, vulnerability and exposure to trauma. She therefore provides systemic consultation and/or voluntary support to a number of organisations on island and internationally (government agencies, schools, social services, day centre and residential facilities, police, and various Non-Profit Organisations). 

She and Dr Lam founded Aspire in 2018 with a vision to provide specialist trauma services for underserved populations in Cayman.

Recent publications:

Sheppard, N. & Day, C. (2024) Young People with Intellectual Disabilities. In: Pote, H. Picciotto, A. & Norris, C (eds) Child Psychology: Pathways to Good Practice. Wiley.