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Meet the Studio 3 Team

The Mental Health and Well-Being Supports Team

Professor Andrew McDonnell

Professor Andrew McDonnell

Studio 3 Director

BSc., MSc., PhD. Consultant Clinical Psychologist to and Director of Studio III Clinical Services; Director, clinical consultant and Team Leader to Studio III Training; formerly worked as a Clinical Psychologist in the NHS until 2002 as the manager of a service.

Claire Fennell

Claire Fennell

COO

Claire brings operational management experience from working in charitable and public sector social care rights-based services over many years providing services to children, adults and families from early years onwards including residential care, outreach support, employment support, SureStart, education and statutory advocacy.

David Walker

David Walker

Studio 3 Director

Counsellor and Psychotherapist with an M.Sc. in Counselling and Psychotherapy, Post Graduate Diploma in Integrated Counselling, Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Diploma in Community and Youth Work, B.Sc. (Hons) Psychology and is a BILD Accredited MCB Trainer.

Dr John McDermott

Dr John McDermott

Counselling Psychologist

DPsych, MSc, LLB (Hons), DipLP, MBPsS. John is a Counselling Psychologist and as such has particular interest in relational and systemic approaches to working with individuals, families and caregivers in autism, developmental disability and care settings.

David Jones

David Jones

Consultant Clinical Psychologist

David Jones is a consultant Clinical psychologist, with over 20 years of practitioner experience. He has practical experience of a variety of populations including, children with emotional and behaviural disorders, older adults, autism.

Paul Dickinson

Paul Dickinson

Clinical Psychologist

BA, BSc, MA, MSc. Paul has been a Clinical Psychologist for almost 30 years. He has worked in the fields of secure inpatient care, child and adolescent mental health services and child, autism diagnostic services and adolescent and adult Intellectual Disability services.

Steve Allison

Steve Allison

Principal International Trainer

Steve has an education background. He is a national assessor for the In service trainers programmes for Studio 3. Steve has a number of specialist interests including: Challenging behaviour and autism.

Gareth D. Morewood

Gareth D. Morewood

Educational Adviser

Gareth D. Morewood is the Educational Adviser for Studio 3. Previously, Gareth worked for 25 years in UK schools, the last 17 of which were spent as SENCo in a large, inclusive secondary school in the North West of England.

Robert Whiskens

Robert Whiskens

Director of Training

Robert Whiskens began working as a trainer for Studio3 mid 2004 and has a broad range of experiences across the autistic spectrum specialist part of the care industry. Pre Studio3 Robert was the regional coordinator for an Asperger syndrome specific outreach team based in the West Midlands.

Paul Burbage

Paul Burbage

Trainer and Practitioner

Paul is a Trainer/Practitioner working with the Training Systems and Clinical Services teams to provide support and deliver courses on Managing Signs of Stress, Low Arousal and SSRR Trauma-Informed Training for Residential Care and Foster Carers. With over 13 years' experience, his background is in adult and children's services for people with Autism and Learning Disabilities.

Paul Phillips

Paul Phillips

Principal Trainer, Ireland

BSocSc (Hons), BSc IT (Hons). Paul is the Principal Trainer in the Republic of Ireland. He delivers courses on Managing Signs of Stress, Low Arousal and Train the Trainer, as well as tutoring the Atlass programme in the UK and Ireland. Paul also offers advice and support to the Clinical Services Team who work in various sectors in the UK and Ireland.

Tim Parker

Tim Parker

Trainer

Tim is a Studio 3 Trainer with extensive experience of working directly with distressed behaviours. He has a specialist interest in the training of frontline teaching staff in behaviour management practices.

The Training Team

Consultants and Associates

Peter Vermeulen

Peter Vermeulen

Associate of Studio 3

MSc and PhD in Psychology and Educational Sciences. Worked with people with ASD and their families for more than 30 years. Peter is an internationally respected lecturer/trainer and he presents all over Europe and beyond. Peter wrote more than 15 books and several articles on autism.

Bo Hejlskov Elven

Bo Hejlskov Elven

Associate of Studio 3

Bo is a Clinical Psychologist based in Scandinavia. His work focuses on guidance and lecturing concerning managing challenging behaviour. Bo's field is care and special education, mainly concerning children and adults with developmental disabilities such as autism, Asperger's syndrome, ADHD or intellectual disabilities.

Damian Milton

Damian Milton

Associate of Studio 3

Damian works part-time for the Tizard Centre, University of Kent as a Lecturer in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and for the National Autistic Society (NAS) as Autism Knowledge and Expertise Consultant.

Roy Deveau

Roy Deveau

Research Consultant

Honorary Research Assistant, Tizard Centre (University of Kent). Roy's research and consultancy work are focused upon two areas; leadershuo and management, and restrictive practices within the Intellectual Disability sector. Roy has also undertaken research into the use of restrictive practices and frontline practice leadership/management within services for people who challenge.

Andrea Page

Andrea Page

Associate of Studio 3

Associate Professor, PhD; MSc, PG Cert, RNT, RNLD, SFHEA. Andrea is a module leader and lecturer on foundation nursing skills and issues relating to the care of people with a learning disability for level 4, 5, and 6 Undergraduate Students at Birmingham City University.

Dermot Rafter

Dermot Rafter

Associate of Studio 3

MA in Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy. Dermot is a Behaviour Support Specialist with over 30 years' experience working on individual support and organisation development.

Admin and Support

Denise McDonnell

Denise McDonnell

Finance Manager

Naomi Rodgers

Naomi Rodgers

Office Support

Gemma Stone

Gemma Stone

Office Manager

Rachel McDermott

Rachel McDermott

Social Media and Information Co-ordinator

Torbjorn Andersson

Torbjorn Andersson

Business Manager

Dave Manwaring

Dave Manwaring

I.T. Support

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