About Dr Quicke
Education and Experience
Family Law Psychology services are delivered by Dr Becky Quicke, a Clinical Psychologist with the following credentials:
- 1st Class Bachelors degree in Psychology (2000)
- Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (2005)
- Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). Reg number: PYL02176
- Member and Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS)
- 15+ years of post doctoral qualification assessment experience with children, parents and families in NHS, private and legal services
- 8 years as an expert witness for the family courts
Dr Quicke has also completed the BPS expert witness training and continues to complete trainings to further her knowledge specific to assessing children and families in the court arena.
If you want to know more details about her qualifications, training and experience, click here to read Dr Quicke’s CV.
Personality and Approach
Alongside the highest level of formal qualifications and experience, Dr Quicke is down to earth and approachable. She has a manner which puts children and parents at ease during assessment.
High quality reports
Solicitors and Guardians have commented on how thorough Dr. Quicke’s assessments are. She has a great ability to put complex psychological information into reports that are easy to read and understand.
Dr Quicke has expertise in the following areas:
Child
- Child mental health, emotional development and current functioning
- Child developmental trauma and impact (including sexual, physical, emotional abuse, domestic violence. Does not include child trafficking)
- Child attachment and relationship patterns
- Child cognitive profile and development
- Autism and ADHD
- Child rejection of parent
- Risk of harm - to self and others
Sibling
- Sibling attachments and relationships
- Detailed assessment of whether siblings should be placed together or apart
Parental
- Parental mental health, emotional development and current functioning
- Trauma and impact on parenting (sexual, physical, emotional including coercive control, especially in the context of domestic violence)
- Parental personality patterns
- Parental adult attachment and relationships
- Parental substance misuse
- Parenting competencies (including formal assessment of Reflective Function/Mentalising)
- Autism and ADHD
- Parental cognitive profile and functioning
- Risk of harm - to self and others
Family
- Family attachments, relationships and functioning
- Domestic violence and risk
Intervention plans regarding:
- Family relationships (parent, child, siblings)
- Parenting
- Reunification
- Contact
- Children in Local Authority Care
- Mental health (for example anxiety, depression, PTSD)