Welcome to Aspire

Dr Meadows (she/hers) is a Senior Clinical Psychologist with over 10 years clinical experience in the UK’s National Health Service. Dr Meadows is an accredited Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy practitioner has a specialist interest and expertise in attachment and relational trauma and has worked within looked after children services (children in the care system/residential settings), for the past 5 years. She was a service lead and has been responsible for the strategic and clinical management of a specialist child and adolescent mental health service, which has received consistent praise for the integrated and proactive nature of its mental health provision.    

Dr Meadows strives to establish strong and supportive relationships with all parts of the child’s professional network (parents/carers, teachers, residential staff) understanding that by enhancing empathy and acceptance between professionals we work more compassionately with the child at the heart of our services. She offers individual and family therapy using evidence-based approaches such as Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP), Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT), and EMDR. Dr Meadows has vast experience in providing consultation and training to support professionals around the children using DDP approaches and attachment theories. Dr Meadows aims to offer her clients a secure base from which they can learn reflective function, and tolerance of difficult feelings that have been pushed away or blocked out in order to heal and thrive.    

Dr Meadows is passionately committed to supporting the parents and carers of looked after children and has extensive experience in facilitation of specialist programmes including Nurturing Attachments™, Foundations for Attachment™, KEEP Standard® and KEEP SAFE™   

Dr Meadows also uses the Cognitive Analytic Therapy framework in her individual work with clients who have experienced relational trauma. The non-judgemental therapeutic stance of CAT allows the client to consider their attachment relationships and the resulting patterns that are enacted in their later life, which cause them emotional pain. With recognition that people are so much more than their identified symptoms or diagnosis, Dr Meadows supports her clients to tell their own story and set manageable goals to lead a more fulfilling life. Dr Meadows has published research in the use of CAT in primary care settings and is co-author of the CAT Guided Self Help workbook for Anxiety       

Dr Meadows is trained in the following therapeutic models:    

-  DDP Level 2 trained and accredited Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy Institute    

- EMDR Level 1 trained, EMDR Institute.   

- Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (TF-CBT)    - Theraplay & Marschak Interaction Method Level 1 training, The Theraplay Institute    

- ADOS 2 training, Central & North West London NHS Foundation Trust   

- Cognitive Analytic Therapy-informed therapy   

- Complex developmental trauma  

Meadows, J., & Kellett, S. (2017). Development and Evaluation of Cognitive Analytic Guided Self-Help (CAT-SH) for Use in IAPT Services. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 45(3), 266-284. doi:10.1017/S1352465816000485