Dr Jessica Jewett BA (Hons Oxon), D. Clin. Psy., C. Psychol., AFBPsS.

Bath Psychology Service is run by Dr Jessica Jewett. She is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist specialising in children and families with a range of psychological difficulties.

She gained her Degree at Oxford University and her Doctorate at University College London, completing her clinical training in 1998. Prior to working independently, Jessica spent 14 years working in the NHS in a busy central London child and family mental health service (CAMHS) focusing on clinical approaches for families and children across the whole age range, including work with many cultural and ethnic groups.

Jessica, an applied scientist, draws on a number of evidence-based approaches in her clinical psychology practice. She holds a Foundation Certificate in Systemic Therapy and uses this as a broad framework for her work with children and families. Cognitive and behavioural, narrative and brief, solution-focused approaches are also a part of her repertoire.

Assessing children and developing a formulation of their difficulties is key in determining how to help a family or a child with their problems. Above all Jessica works with compassion and understanding for her clients in a non-judgemental way that appreciates their difficulties and their efforts to deal with them, and finds a way to help that is supportive, creative, and effective.

She has provided teaching and training to other professionals in areas such as child development, mental health topics and parenting, and held leading roles in audit and lead the development of outreach in local primary schools. Jessica was also an honorary clinical tutor at University College Clinical Training Course for a number of years.

Jessica is Chartered by the British Psychological Society (BPS) and is an Associate Fellow of the BPS.  She is a member of the Division of Clinical Psychology, and a member of the BPS Faculty for Children, Young People and their Families.

Jessica is registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), and has a current extended DBS (CRB) check.

She lives with her family in Bath.

Dr Rachel Hiller, B.Psyc (Hons), PhD (Clinical Psychology)

Dr Rachel Hiller is a Clinical Psychologist who works with children, teenagers and their families with a range of psychological difficulties. She is particularly specialised in working with children and teenagers with anxiety disorders and/or behaviour difficulties, or sleep disorders. Sleep disorders might include children who have great difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep (especially without a parent present), teenagers with verydelayed ‘body-clocks’, and parasomnias such as night terrors or bed wetting.

Rachel completed her PhD and Clinical Psychology training at Flinders University in South Australia, Australia. In 2014 she moved to the United Kingdom to work in the Department of Psychology at the University of Bath. Her clinical research work has spanned work with young people with autism spectrum disorder, sleep disorders, and young people who have experienced trauma or maltreatment.

As a researcher and practitioner, Rachel draws on evidence-based approaches in her clinical practice, with a particular focus on cognitive and behavioural therapy. She is a registered Clinical Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council, and has a current DBS check. She is also a member of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies and the UK Psychological Trauma Society.