Staff Profile
Sarah Stringfellow
Sarah is a Forensic Psychologist, registered with the Health Care Professions Council, chartered with the British Psychological Society, a full member of the Division of Forensic Psychology, and on the Register of Applied Psychology Practice Supervisors.
She has worked in prisons for 26 years – with women, with young male offenders, and with adult males. She was Clinical Lead/Therapy Manager for a Prison Therapeutic Community for men with Personality difficulties and Learning disabilities, from pilot through to accreditation with the Correctional Services Accreditation and Advice Panel and then to first peer review and audit. She has also been Lead Psychologist in a Low Secure Hospital for men with diagnosed ‘personality difficulties’, complex trauma, mental illness and learning disabilities.
Sarah has worked with Looked After Children, and is currently Clinical Lead with an organisation based in Birmingham who provide residential places for Looked After Children, overseeing the clinical team who provide therapy for the children and young people, assessments of their needs, consultancy and training for teams and support for residential managers. She is also currently working for the NHS in a prison, delivering Compassion Focused Therapy.
Her areas of special interest are Compassion, Trauma, Attachment, and Personality.
Sarah was previously Course Leader and Senior Lecturer on the MSc Applied Forensic Psychology at Buckinghamshire New University and is now an Associate Lecturer on the course.
- Associate Lecturer