Qualifications, Conferences, Publications

Professional Qualifications, Affiliations and Registrations

Doctor of Clinical Psychology (DClinPsy), professional doctorate training (University of Leicester)

Master of Arts (MA with Distinction) in Therapeutic Care for Refugees (University of Essex and Tavistock Clinic, London)

Bachelor of Science (BSc Hons) in Psychology (Staffordshire University)

Chartered Clinical Psychologist with the British Psychological Society (CPsychol)

Approved EMDR Europe and EMDR UK Accredited Practitioner

Approved DBR Practitioner

Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (AFBPsS)

Chartered Scientist with the British Psychological Society (CSci)

Biodynamic Cranial Sacral Therapy Practitioner (BCST)

Registered Practitioner Psychologist with Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC)

Enhanced DBS clearance and professional indemnity insurance

National and International Conferences

I have delivered the following presentations:

‘Broken Spirits: The Psychology of Asylum’ Conference (funded by the British Psychological Society, ASIRT and Shared Voices). Individual Presentation: ‘A Clinician’s Experience of Working with Asylum Seekers and Refugee People’. Birmingham, UK, February 2006.

‘Working Psychologically with Difference’, Psychology Directorate; Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health NHS Trust. Individual Presentation: ‘Strangers in our Midst: Therapeutic Care for Asylum Seekers and Refugee people’, Birmingham, UK, June 2006.

‘The Contemporary South Asian Diaspora: Acculturation, Mental Health & Identity’, Symposium. 18th International Congress for Cross Cultural Psychology. Individual paper presentation followed by panel discussion: Positioning Shame in the Relationship between Cultural Identity, Depression and Psychological Distress amongst South Asian women. Isle of Spetses, Greece, July 2006.

‘Reflecting on Difference’, Psychology Directorate; Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health NHS Trust. Individual Presentation: ‘Communicating with Refugee People: Working in a Clinical Setting Using Interpreters’. Birmingham, UK, November 2007.

‘Addressing the Needs of Refugees and Asylum Seekers’ Conference. Black and Ethnic Minority Working Group (BEMWG). Innovative practice in meeting the needs of refugees: partnership working, London, UK, November 2009.

‘Suicide among Turkish, Kurdish, Cypriot Diasporas in Europe’, Westminster Debate, CEFTUS. Individual Presentation: Cultural Adaptation of Psychological Therapies for BME Communities in East London. House of Commons, Palace of Westminster, London, UK, October 2017.

‘Cultural Adaptation of Services and Interventions’, Symposia. 5th World Congress of Cultural Psychiatry (WACP). Individual Paper Presentation: Cultural Adaptation of an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Group for Turkish speaking communities in East London. Columbia University, New York, USA, October 2018.

Publications

Saxena, A. (1998). ‘The Influence of Race and Racial Identity in Psychotherapy: Toward a Racially Inclusive Model’, Robert T. Carter. Book Review. Feminism & Psychology, Vol. 8 (4), 514-517.

Anand, A. & Cochrane, R. (2005). The mental health status of South Asian women in Britain: A review of the UK literature. Psychology and Developing Societies; Special Issue: The Asian Diaspora, 17 (2), 195 – 214. 

Anand, A., Soondar, J., Ho, T.Q & Altun, S. (2011). Hearing the voices of service users and carers in interpreting training, Trust Talk, Vol: Dec, p.8.

Bacon, U., Anand, A & Ho, T. Q. (2012). Gambling awareness in the Vietnamese community, Trust Talk, Vol: July, p.10.

Perry, A., Gardener, C., Dove, J., Eiger, Y & Loewenthal, K. (2018). Improving Mental Health Knowledge of the Charedi Orthodox Jewish Community in North London: A Partnership Project. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, Vol. 64 (3) 235 –247. DOI: 10.1177/0020764018756935

Perry, A., Gardener, C., Oliver, J.E ., Tas, C & Özenç, C. (2019). Exploring the cultural flexibility of the ACT model as an effective therapeutic group intervention for Turkish speaking communities in East London. The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist;  Special Issue: Cultural Adaptations of Therapy, Vol. 12. DOI:10.1017/S1754470X18000041

Perry, A., Gardener, C., Shieh, J., Ho, Q.T., Doan, A. & Bhui, K. (2024). Investigating the Acceptability of a Culturally Adapted Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Group for UK Vietnamese Communities: A Practice-Based Feasibility Study, Transcultural Psychiatry, DOI: 10.1177/13634615241228071

• N.B Aradhana Perry (nee Saxena-Anand)