Our founder, Dr Georgia Pavlopoulou, is Deputy Programme Director Overall CYP Psychological Therapies and Director for Psychological Therapies for Autism and Learning Disability PG courses at UCL and Anna Freud. She has also being the Director (2021-2025) of The National Autism Trainer Programme which run by Anna Freud in partnership with At-Autism.
Georgia works with Anna Freud, a world leading mental health charity, and teams of autistic and adhd trainers and clinicians to offer on demand bespoke trainings in child, adolescent and adult mental health including intersectionality issues (learning disability, dyspraxia black/asian/ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+). She is passionate supporting clinicians and teams to apply neuro-inclusive adaptations to evidence based therapies, education and healthcare.
Georgia has expertise in coproducing and codelivering tailored national curriculums and international workshop activities which provide a unique overview of best practice, through tuition based on research evidence and the participation of experts by experience who design the material that you will be trained on.
Georgia has recently received the esteemed "David Cottrell Award" from the Association of Child Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH) in recognition of her substantial contributions to the education and training of professionals in child and adolescent mental health in the UK. Additionally, she has been honored with the 2024 Inclusion UCL award for her innovation in mental health research and teaching sessions.
If you would like to discuss bespoke training for your team on any aspect of mental health (depression, anxiety, psychosis, sleep disorders, eating disorders, suicidality and trauma) and neurodivergence (autism, adhd, learning disability) please email: training@annafreud.org
The Anna Freud Training team also facilitates on demand safe and reflective spaces to enable professionals to:
• Understand barriers experienced by neurodivergent people in educational, employment, community care and hospital environments.
• Employ experience sensitive and reflective approaches of working with, rather than on or for, neurodivergent populations with anxiety, depression, suicidality, self harm, behaviours of concern and more
• Gain expertise and a broad range of skills and practical strategies to meet the needs of neurodivergent people and their families
• Model collaborative and acceptance values and promote a balanced narrative about neurodiversity in their services.
For more information contact: training@annafreud.org
