Here you’ll find the work of Dr Naomi Fisher and Dr Abigail Fisher.
Naomi is a clinical psychologist, EMDR-Europe Accredited trainer and author of several books. Since she was a small child, she has asked the world why. Why do things have to be this way – and what would it be like if it were different?
She applies this to education, parenting and clinical psychology. She asks whether school is always the best way for children to learn, and whether the things ‘we all know’ to be true about parenting are in fact the case. She pushes for new ways to understand difference and to include voices which go unheard. Her work brings psychological theory and evidence-based practice together with real life clinical experience and open curiosity.
The thread that ties her work together is her willingness to take a step outside the conventional and to challenge the status quo, even when others disagree.
Abigail is an educational psychologist and qualified teacher.
We both have doctoral qualifications in applied psychology, Naomi in clinical psychology and Abigail in educational psychology. This means that we bring a psychological perspective to all our work. We may sometimes offer perspectives which are not what you expected. This is part of our role. We are independent professionals and we cannot guarantee that the outcome of an assessment will be what you were hoping for.
We are regulated by the HCPC, which means that you can complain to them if you are not happy about the quality of what we do.
We are not advocates. Advocates are unregulated and may be unqualified. They can be very helpful in offering support and advocacy but they should not be offering mental health treatment or psychological therapy unless qualified to do so.
Does your child need more help in school? Are you wondering about the EHCP process? Come and get some tips from an educational psychologist.
Dr Naomi Fisher will explain anxiety, teenage brain development and why many adolescents become anxious. She'll end with practical ideas.
Dr Naomi Fisher will explain OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) and how it can interact with autism. She'll describe how parents and children can fall into OCD traps, and what to do to get out. She'll give you some ideas to help your child, even if they themselves don't think that there's a problem.
Life is full of transitions - and many autistic children find them really difficult - which means that their parents find them hard too. Life can feel like walking on eggshells. Dr. Naomi Fisher will help you gain a new understanding of why transitions are so hard, what makes it worse - and how to help.
A down-to-earth illustrated guide for parents of children who just haven't read the parenting books.
Some children just haven't read the parenting books. The harder you try, the worse it gets. There's a hidden contract at the heart of parenting. It's the idea that if parents just get it right, their children can be made to do what they want. Manuals explain how to make it very clear to your children what you want them to do - and how to respond when they don't cooperate.
If you are a parent worrying whether self-directed education will work for your child, because you have been told that they have special needs which can only be met in the school system - think again. Neurodivergent children experience and interact with the world differently to many of their peers. Standard educational systems often fail to adapt to their unique strengths and ways of learning. School, and even the act of learning, can become a source of great anxiety and trauma. Self-directed education offers an alternative to traditional schools that can help neurodivergent children develop at their own pace and thrive.