Simon Dermody Consultant in Child and Family Psychology
MA BA(Hons) Dip.Fam.Th. RDTh. Cert.Play. BABCP
Mr. Simon Dermody is a Consultant in Child and Family Psychology with over 40 years of experience working in child and family mental health. During that time, he has written more than 300 reports for the courts in a wide range of areas, including social care, immigration appeals, and family contact dispute cases.
Mr. Dermody provides online and face-to-face services to children, couples, and families both in the UK and abroad.
His work now focuses on assessment and report profiling for ADD, ADHD, and ASD. He offers live therapy interviews for couples and families online.
Mr. Dermody uses the Connors Assessment Questionnaires (Conners 3TM) for ADHD and ADD profiling. There are two questionnaires, one for parents and one for teachers. There is also a self-report for 12-17 year olds.
For ASD profiling, the Connors ASD Questionnaires (ASRSTM) are used. There are two versions: ASRS (2-5 Years) for ratings of children aged 2 to 5 and ASRS (6-18 Years) for ratings of children or adolescents aged 6 to 18. These can be easily completed online. Each profiling combines with an online or face-to-face developmental interview with each child’s parents.
He has worked in London on Harley Street, assisting and working with families who have translocated around the world and with embassy staff working abroad. Previously, as Director of Harley Street Family Centre for 20 years, Mr. Dermody had extensive experience in assessment and treatment programmes for a wide range of child, adolescent, and family conditions and difficulties.
He has extensive experience specialising in therapeutic work with children and adolescents with a wide range of emotional and behavioural difficulties, offering specialist interventions for dysfunctional couple relationships and whole families.
Mr. Dermody also has a wide range of skills for short and long-term therapeutic interventions for children, individuals, couples, and whole families, including: Play Therapy for children, Family Scripts Therapy for couples, Integrated CBT-Hypnotherapy-Person Centred Therapy for adults, and Systemic Family Therapy for whole families.